HLS 20RS-2700 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 56
BY REPRESENTATIVE ZERINGUE
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES: Authorizes and directs the executive branch agencies that
submit statutorily required reports to the House Committee on Appropriations to
continue to submit such reports as required by law
1 A RESOLUTION
2To authorize and direct the executive branch agencies that submit statutorily required reports
3 to the House Committee on Appropriations to continue to submit those reports until
4 such time as the statutory requirements for those reports are specifically amended or
5 repealed.
6 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401 as enacted by Act No. 572 of the 2018 Regular Session
7provides that a legislative mandate to produce any report required of an executive branch
8agency first occurring on or after July 1, 2018, shall expire on the July first following the
9fifth regular session after the mandate was approved by the legislature; and
10 WHEREAS, this law provides that a legislative mandate to produce any report
11required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or before June 30, 2018, shall
12expire on the July first following June 30, 2019, in the earliest year that is a multiple of five
13years after the mandate was initially approved by the legislature; and
14 WHEREAS, this law provides further that the standing legislative committees having
15jurisdiction over the agency tasked with producing the report may extend the mandate for
16an additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any time
17before the July first on which the mandate is set to expire; and
18 WHEREAS, in consideration of the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C), the House of
19Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana hereby gives notice that the House
20Committee on Appropriations intends that each agency, office, board, commission, and other
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1subdivision of the executive branch of state government which is statutorily required to
2submit any report to the committee continue to submit that report until such time as the
3statutory requirement mandating the report is specifically amended or repealed; and
4 WHEREAS, the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana hereby
5expresses its intention that the adoption of this Resolution be deemed as the affirmative vote
6of the House Committee on Appropriations required by R.S. 49:1401(C) for the extension
7of all statutory mandates relative to reports to the committee for an additional five years,
8except that any such mandate shall terminate if repealed from the law within that time.
9 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
10Legislature of Louisiana does hereby authorize and direct the executive branch agencies,
11offices, boards, commissions, and other subdivisions which submit statutorily required
12reports to the House Committee on Appropriations to continue to submit those reports until
13such time as the statutory requirements for those reports are specifically amended or
14repealed.
15 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
16commissioner of administration, the treasurer, the chief executive officer of the Office of
17Group Benefits, and the director of boards and commissions of the office of the governor.
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)]
HR 56 Original 2020 Regular Session Zeringue
Directs 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.
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