The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
DIGEST
SB 313 Engrossed 2020 Regular Session Peterson
Present law provides that the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans will fix the rates to be
charged consumers of water, including the power to exceed the total rates in force on November 1,
1913, and will collect the same from all persons who use water from the public water supply except
that the Orleans Parish School Board will be exempt as follows:
(1)Those Orleans Parish School Board accounts which are presently exempt will be exempt
from said charges through June 30, 1992.
(2)Effective July 1, 1992 through June 30, 1993, each school campus and each nonschool
facility of the Orleans Parish School Board will be exempt for all water consumed which
does not exceed six gallons per day, for the 365 days of that year, for each student enrolled
and any other person regularly assigned to that campus or facility within 30 school days of
the commencement of the school year. Effective July 1, 1993, and thereafter, each school
campus and each nonschool facility of the Orleans Parish School Board will be exempt from
said charges for all water consumed which does not exceed four gallons per day, per 365
days a year for each student enrolled and any other person regularly assigned to that campus
or facility within 30 school days of the commencement of the school year. Effective
July 1, 1993, and thereafter, the Orleans Parish School Board also will be exempt from all
water service charges.
(3)The above exemption is determined by the student/employee census report or equivalent as
submitted to the state Department of Education. If said report is discontinued, a similar report
will substitute.
Proposed law retains present law but adds an additional exemption which provides that the
exemption outlined in present law may be superceded by a mutually agreed upon and executed
cooperative endeavor agreement between the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans and the
Orleans Parish School Board, wherein the terms of the cooperative endeavor agreement will govern
the rate and means by which public schools in Orleans Parish are charged for water and sewer
services.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 33:4096(A)(1)(c)(iv))