ENROLLED
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 46
BY REPRESENTATIVES BAGLEY, ADAMS, COX, ECHOLS, HUGHES, TRAVIS
JOHNSON, MCMAHEN, MOORE, SEL DERS, AND TURNER
A RESOLUTION
To authorize and direct the executive branch agencies that submit statutorily required reports
to the House Committee on Health and Welfare to continue to submit those reports
until such time as the statutory requirements for those reports are specifically
amended or repealed.
WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401 as enacted by Act No. 572 of the 2018 Regular Session
provides that a legislative mandate to produce any report required of an executive branch
agency first occurring on or after July 1, 2018, shall expire on the July first following the
fifth regular session after the mandate was approved by the legislature; and
WHEREAS, this law provides that a legislative mandate to produce any report
required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or before June 30, 2018, shall
expire on the July first following June 30, 2019, in the earliest year that is a multiple of five
years after the mandate was initially approved by the legislature; and
WHEREAS, this law provides further that the standing legislative committees having
jurisdiction over the agency tasked with producing the report may extend the mandate for
an additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any time
before the July first on which the mandate is set to expire; and
WHEREAS, in consideration of the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C), the House of
Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana hereby gives notice that the House
Committee on Health and Welfare intends that each agency, office, board, commission, and
other subdivision of the executive branch of state government which is statutorily required
to submit any report to the committee continue to submit that report until such time as the
statutory requirement mandating the report is specifically amended or repealed; and
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WHEREAS, the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana hereby
expresses its intention that the adoption of this Resolution be deemed as the affirmative vote
of the House Committee on Health and Welfare required by R.S. 49:1401(C) for the
extension of all statutory mandates relative to reports to the committee for an additional five
years, except that any such mandate shall terminate if repealed from the law within that time.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby authorize and direct the executive branch agencies,
offices, boards, commissions, and other subdivisions which submit statutorily required
reports to the House Committee on Health and Welfare to continue to submit those reports
until such time as the statutory requirements for those reports are specifically amended or
repealed.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, the secretary of the Department of Children
and Family Services, and the director of boards and commissions of the office of the
governor.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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