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2020 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 155
BY SENATOR LUNEAU
ETHICS. Provides for payment of supplemental compensation from nonpublic sources for
certain personnel at the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the
Arts. (8/1/20)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 42:1111(A)(3), relative to the Code of Governmental Ethics; to
3 provide relative to payment from a nonpublic source; to provide for the
4 supplementary compensation of all members of the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana
5 School for Math, Science, and the Arts; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 42:1111(A)(3) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง1111. Payment from nonpublic sources
9 A. * * *
10 (3) Any supplementary compensation or benefits provided to a member of
11 the faculty, administration, or staff of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts or
12 the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts from
13 funds or property accruing to the benefit of the center or school pursuant to the
14 approval of the board of directors for use as provided in R.S. 17:1970.27 or R.S.
15 17:1968 through a foundation organized to support the center or school which is
16 chartered specifically to provide aid to the center in a philanthropic manner shall be
17 deemed for purposes of this Subsection as a supplement to his compensation to
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1 which he is duly entitled. Such a supplement shall not, however, be considered as
2 regular compensation from his governmental employer nor shall it form any basis
3 for governmentally supported benefits.
4 * * *
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Tim Prather.
DIGEST
SB 155 Engrossed 2020 Regular Session Luneau
Proposed law provides an exception to the present law relative to ethical standards for public
servants.
Present law provides that supplementary compensation or benefits provided to a member of
the faculty, administration, or staff of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts from funds
or property accruing to the benefit of the center pursuant to the approval of the board of
directors for use through a foundation organized to support the center which is chartered
specifically to provide aid to the center in a philanthropic manner will be deemed for
purposes of present law as a supplement to his compensation to which he is duly entitled.
Present law provides that this supplement will not be considered as regular compensation
from his governmental employer nor will it form any basis for governmentally supported
benefits.
Proposed law includes the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the
Arts.
Effective August 1, 2020.
(Amends R.S. 42:1111(A)(3))
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