The legislative instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP ORT DIGEST
SB 171 2019 Regular Session Hewitt
Keyword and summary of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
STATE AGENCIES. Relative to reports required of executive branch agencies, repeals automatic
expiration and makes the legislative auditor the receiving agency for certain reports. (6/30/19)
Report adopts House amendments to:
1. Change the agency that receives certain required reports from boards and commissions
authorized to issue licenses to the legislative auditor from the House Committee on House
and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.
Report rejects House amendments which would have:
1. Changed the agency that receives certain required reports from boards and commissions
authorized to issue licenses to the division of administration from the House Committee on
House and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental
Affairs.
2. Changed the date for report mandates to be reviewed from June 30, 2019, with expiration in
five-year increments, to January 1, 2022, with review in four-year increments.
3. Required legislative action to cause a reporting mandate to cease rather than requiring
legislative action to cause a mandate to continue.
Report amends the bill to:
1. Repeal present law that causes mandates to provide reports to expire five years, or a multiple
of five years, after the mandate's initial legislative approval.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Present law requires each board or commission authorized to issue a license, permit, or certificate
under present law to submit quarterly reports to the appropriate legislative oversight committees and to the House and Senate governmental affairs committees that contain:
(a) The number of complaints received regarding board actions or procedures.
(b) A summary of each such complaint and the disposition of each complaint.
Proposed law retains present law but changes the agency that receives the reports from the
governmental affairs committee to the legislative auditor.
Present law further requires that each board or commission to give notice to each applicant and
licensee that complaints about actions or procedures of the board or commission may be submitted
directly to the House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on
Senate and Governmental Affairs. Require each board or commission to post a notice of the ability
to submit complaints to the governmental affairs committees in a conspicuous place on the website
of the board or commission.
Proposed law retains present law but designates the legislative auditor instead of the House
governmental affairs committees as the proper entity that an applicant or licensee may submit
complaints to about actions or procedures of the board or commission.
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.
Present law provides for reports mandated before July 1, 2018, to expire on the July 1
st
following
June 30, 2019, in the earliest year that is a multiple of five years after the mandate was initiated.
Proposed law repeals present law.
Effective June 30, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 37:23.2; repeals R.S. 49:1401)