HLS 20RS-30 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 45
BY REPRESENTATIVE GREGORY MILLER
BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to certain licensing boards
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 37:23.2, relative to certain licensing boards and commissions;
3 to provide relative to complaints about actions and procedures of such boards and
4 commissions; to provide relative to reports regarding such complaints; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 37:23.2 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง23.2. Legislative report requirements; notification requirements
9 A.(1) Each board or commission authorized to issue a license, permit, or
10 certificate under this Title shall submit quarterly reports to the appropriate legislative
11 oversight committees and to the House Committee on House and Governmental
12 Affairs and the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs legislative
13 auditor. The reports required by this Subsection shall be submitted no later than the
14 fifteenth day of the month following the end of the respective quarter and shall
15 contain:
16 (a) The number of complaints received regarding board actions or
17 procedures.
18 (b) A summary of each such complaint and the disposition of each
19 complaint.
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1 (2) If any of the information required to be submitted pursuant to Paragraph
2 (1) of this Subsection contains confidential, personally identifiable, or otherwise
3 sensitive information, the board or commission shall clearly mark such information
4 as confidential, personally identifiable, or sensitive information, and the legislative
5 committees, members, officers, and employees having access to the identified
6 information shall not publicly disclose the information and shall protect the
7 information from unauthorized use and disclosure.
8 B.(1) Each board or commission authorized to issue a license, permit, or
9 certificate under this Title shall give notice to each applicant and licensee in or with
10 each correspondence from the board or commission that the applicant or licensee
11 may submit complaints about actions or procedures of the board or commission to
12 the board or commission or directly to the House Committee on House and
13 Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental
14 Affairs legislative auditor.
15 (2) Each board or commission authorized to issue a license, permit, or
16 certificate under this Title shall post a notice of the ability to submit complaints
17 about the actions or procedures of the board or commission to the board or
18 commission or to the House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs and the
19 Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs legislative auditor in a
20 conspicuous place on the website of the board or commission.
21 (3) Each notice required by this Subsection shall contain at a minimum the
22 mailing address, email address, and telephone number of the board or commission
23 and the mailing address, email address, and telephone number of each legislative
24 committee listed in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection the legislative auditor.
25 Section 2. This Act shall become effective on January 1, 2021.
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 45 Original 2020 Regular Session Gregory Miller
Abstract: Relative to certain notice and reporting requirements relative to complaints
regarding actions and procedures applicable to Title 37 licensing boards and
commissions, provides a deadline for such reports to be submitted and shifts the
receipt of reports and complaints to the legislative auditor instead of the House and
Senate governmental affairs committees.
Present law requires boards or commissions authorized to issue a license, permit, or
certificate pursuant to provisions in Title 37 of the La. Revised Statutes of 1950 to notify
licensees and applicants for licenses that complaints about actions or procedures of the board
or commission may be submitted to the board or commission or to the House and Senate
governmental affairs committees. Proposed law provides instead that the notice provide that
those types of complaints may be submitted to the board or commission or to the legislative
auditor.
Present law further requires each such board or commission to submit quarterly reports to
the House and Senate governmental affairs committees and to the appropriate legislative
oversight committees containing specified information regarding complaints. Further
requires the reports to contain certain information about the complaints received regarding
board actions or procedures. Present law requires the legislative committees, members, and
employees having access to confidential, personally identifiable, or sensitive information as
contained in those reports to protect the information from unauthorized use and disclosure.
Proposed law requires that the reports regarding complaints be sent to the legislative auditor
instead of the House and Senate governmental affairs committees. Requires those reports
to be submitted no later than the 15th day of the month following the end of the respective
quarter. Additionally requires legislative officers having access to confidential, personally
identifiable, or sensitive information contained in those reports to protect the information
from unauthorized use and disclosure.
Effective January 1, 2021.
(Amends R.S. 37:23.2)
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