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2018 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 432
BY SENATOR CHABERT
COASTAL PROTECT/RES AUTH. Requires the Coastal Protection and Restoration
Authority Board to develop a coastal master plan, at a minimum every six years. (8/1/18)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 49:214.5.3(A)(1), relative to the coastal protection master plan;
3 to require the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board to develop a
4 master plan, at a minimum, every six years; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 49:214.5.3(A)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as
7 follows:
8 ยง214.5.3. Coastal protection annual plans; development; priorities
9 A.(1) The board shall, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein,
10 develop a master plan for integrated coastal protection and an annual plan for
11 integrated coastal protection for protecting, conserving, enhancing, and restoring the
12 coastal area through the construction and management of integrated coastal
13 protection projects and programs, including privately funded marsh management
14 projects or plans, and addressing those activities requiring a coastal use permit which
15 significantly affect such projects, all consistent with the legislative intent as
16 expressed in R.S. 49:214.1, and which plan shall be subject to the approval of the
17 legislature as provided in Subsection B of this Section and Subsection E of this
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1 Section. In addition, the board, in accordance with the procedures set forth herein
2 including legislative approval, shall review, revise, and amend the master plan when
3 necessary or, at a minimum, every five six years. The master plan adopted by the
4 legislature in 2017 shall be effective for six years.
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The original instrument was prepared by Alan Miller. The following digest,
which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was prepared
by Tammy Crain-Waldrop.
DIGEST
SB 432 Reengrossed 2018 Regular Session Chabert
Present law requires the CPRA board to develop a coastal master plan when necessary, or
at a minimum, every five years.
Proposed law changes the five year requirement to six years.
Proposed law provides that the 2017 master plan will be effective through 2023.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 49:214.5.3(A)(1))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Natural Resources to
the original bill
1. Changes the four-year requirement for adoption of the master plan to a
six-year requirement.
2. Makes the 2017 master plan effective through 2023.
3. Requires the CPRA board to include a four-year projection of funding of
projects and programs in the annual plan rather than current three-year
projection.
Senate Floor Amendments to engrossed bill
1. Makes technical changes.
2. Removes provision that would change present law funding projections from
three years to four years in the annual plan.
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