The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by LG Sullivan.
DIGEST
SB 171 Engrossed 2019 Regular Session Hewitt
Present law requires a legislative mandate for an executive branch agency to produce a report to
expire five years after legislative approval of the mandate. Requires the producing agency to notify
the legislature of the impending expiration. Regardless of the legislative committee with jurisdiction
over the subject matter of the report, authorizes the legislative committees with jurisdiction over the
producing agency to extend the mandate for an additional five years by an affirmative vote of each
committee. Provides for the first reports to expire July 1, 2019.
Proposed law retains the five-year expiration. Delays the first expiration until July 1, 2021.
Proposed law defines "agency" for purposes of proposed law to mean any department, office,
division, or other entity or an officer within the executive branch of state government.
Proposed law requires the producing agency to notify the receiving agency or entity of the impending
expiration by Oct. 1st two calendar years (21 months) before expiration. Provides for the receiving
executive-branch agency or entity to extend the mandate for five years. Requires the receiving
agency or entity to report to the producing agency, the legislature, and the Law Institute by Jan. 1st
of the calendar year (18 months) before expiration whether or not the designated recipient extends
the mandate.
Proposed law provides that if the agency producing the report fails to submit the Oct. 1st notification
or if the receiving agency or entity fails to submit the Jan. 1st notification, the mandate shall continue
for five additional years.
Proposed law further provides that a report to the legislature, the Senate, or the House of
Representatives, or to a legislative officer, committee, or other legislative entity or a report with no
designated recipient may be extended an additional five years by an enactment of the legislature or
by the same procedure that originally mandated the report.
Proposed law subjects any mandate extended an additional five years to the expiration provisions
at the end of that extension.
Effective June 30, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 49:1401) Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental
Affairs to the original bill
1. For a report to a legislative entity or a report with no designated recipient, require
legislative action to continue the mandate.
2. Specify that a Jan. 1st notification to the legislature shall include the Oct. 1st
notification the producing agency provides to an executive-branch recipient agency.