DIGEST
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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)