GREEN SHEET REDIGEST
HB 6 2020 Regular Session Gregory Miller
STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to reports by executive branch agencies
DIGEST
Present law (R.S. 49:1401) provides that a legislative mandate for an executive branch
agency to produce a report expires five years after legislative approval of the mandate.
Requires the producing agency to notify the legislature of the impending expiration.
Authorizes the standing committee with jurisdiction over the producing agency to extend a
mandate for an additional five years. Provides for the first reports to expire July 1, 2019.
Present law provides that standing committees having jurisdiction over an agency tasked with
producing the report may extend the mandate by an affirmative vote of the majority of each
committee at any time before the July first expiration date and that the executive agency
responsible for producing the report will notify committees via email of the upcoming
expiration no later than January first of the year in which it is set to expire.
Proposed law repeals present law.
Effective August 1, 2020.
(Repeals R.S. 49:1401)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The House Floor Amendments to the engrossed bill:
1. Require the agency to give its opinion regarding the continued necessity of
the report rather than its determination regarding the same.
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Senate and
Governmental Affairs to the reengrossed bill
1. Repeals R.S. 49:1401
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Prepared by Matt Deville.