ENROLLED
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 13
BY REPRESENTATIVES GREGORY MILLER AND DWIGHT
A RESOLUTION
To amend and readopt House Rule 3.5(A) of the Rules of Order of the House of
Representatives and to repeal House Rule 2.10(D)(5) of the Rules of Order of the
House of Representatives to provide relative to House Legislative Services
employees and the duties thereof and relative to the duties of the Clerk of the House.
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana
that House Rule 3.5(A) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby
amended and readopted to read as follows:
Rule 3.5. House Legislative Services; executive director
A.(1) The Subcommittee on Personnel of the House Executive Committee
shall be responsible for the employment and supervision of a research, drafting, and
committee staff for the House of Representatives. Such staff shall be designated as
House Legislative Services, and shall have as its purpose the provision of research,
drafting, and similar legislative services to the House of Representatives, its
members, and committees. The staff House Legislative Service employees shall
have, without limitation, the following duties: (1) (a) the furnishing of research and
bill drafting services to members of the House and the committees of the House; (2)
(b) providing objective reports on the context of pending and adopted legislation; (3)
(c) the preparation of manuals, directories, and similar informational materials for
the use of the House and House staff its officers and employees; (4) (d) providing
professional services on behalf of the House of Representatives, or its committees;
and (5) (e) the performance of all other duties the subcommittee may deem or the
speaker deems essential to the work of the House and the legislature generally, and
the members thereof.
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(2) Unless explicitly required by law, House Legislative Services shall not
provide staff support to any special study commission, task force, or like entity
unless a majority of its membership is composed of members of the House of
Representatives and then only upon the explicit direction of the speaker.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature
of Louisiana that House Rule 2.10(D)(5) of the Rules of Order of the House of
Representatives is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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