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2020 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 68
BY SENATOR WHITE
LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT. Directs the executive branch agencies under jurisdictional
oversight of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget to continue to submit statutorily
mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To direct the executive branch agencies under the jurisdictional oversight of the Joint
3 Legislative Committee on the Budget to continue to submit statutorily mandated
4 reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
5 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(A) provides that a legislative mandate to produce any
6 report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or after July 1, 2018, shall
7 expire on the July first following the fifth regular session after the mandate was approved
8 by the legislature; and
9 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(B) provides that a legislative mandate to produce any
10 report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or before June 30, 2018,
11 shall expire on the July first following June 30, 2019, in the earliest year that is a multiple
12 of five years after the mandate was initially approved by the legislature; and
13 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(C) provides that the standing committees having
14 jurisdiction over the agency tasked with producing the report may extend the mandate for
15 an additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any time
16 before July first on which the mandate is set to expire; and
17 WHEREAS, the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget is comprised primarily
18 of members of standing committees, namely, the Senate Committee on Finance and the
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1 House Committee on Appropriations; and
2 WHEREAS, the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget hereby gives notice to
3 the Department of State Civil Service, the Department of Economic Development, the
4 Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Department of Environmental Quality,
5 the Louisiana Department of Health, the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the Department
6 of Natural Resources, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Department of
7 Revenue, the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of
8 Transportation and Development, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Department
9 of Agriculture and Forestry, the Department of Education, the Department of Insurance, the
10 Department of Justice, the Department of Public Service, the Department of State, the
11 Department of the Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and every agency or
12 commission statutorily created within each of those departments that, by the member's
13 authorship of and affirmative votes to adopt this Resolution the provisions of R.S.
14 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have been satisfied prior to July first,
15 extending the mandates for a continued five years of mandatory reporting; and
16 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the Joint Legislative Committee on
17 the Budget that the Department of State Civil Service, the Department of Economic
18 Development, the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Department of
19 Environmental Quality, the Louisiana Department of Health, the Louisiana Workforce
20 Commission, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Public Safety and
21 Corrections, the Department of Revenue, the Department of Children and Family Services,
22 the Department of Transportation and Development, the Department of Wildlife and
23 Fisheries, the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, the Department of Education, the
24 Department of Insurance, the Department of Justice, the Department of Public Service, the
25 Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs,
26 and every agency or commission statutorily created within each of those departments shall
27 continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the mandate is
28 specifically amended or repealed.
29 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
30 direct the executive branch agencies who are statutorily required to submit reports to the
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1 Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget or are under jurisdictional oversight of the Joint
2 Legislative Committee on the Budget to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until
3 such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
5 director of the Department of State Civil Service, the secretary of the Department of
6 Economic Development, the lieutenant governor of the Department of Culture, Recreation
7 and Tourism, the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality, the secretary of the
8 Louisiana Department of Health, the secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the
9 secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, the secretary of the Department of Public
10 Safety and Corrections, the secretary of the Department of Revenue, the secretary of the
11 Department of Children and Family Services, the secretary of the Department of
12 Transportation and Development, the secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries,
13 the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, the superintendent of
14 education of the Department of Education, the commissioner of the Department of
15 Insurance, the attorney general of the Department of Justice, the executive secretary of the
16 Department of Public Service, the secretary of state of the Department of State, the state
17 treasurer of the Department of the Treasury, and the secretary of the Department of Veterans
18 Affairs.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Martha S. Hess.
DIGEST
SCR 68 Original 2020 Regular Session White
Pursuant to the requirement set forth in R.S. 49:1401(C), the Joint Legislative Committee
on the Budge gives notice to the departments of the state, and every agency or commission
statutorily created within each of those departments that they are extending the mandate for
statutorily provided reporting for an additional five years.
Directs every department, and every agency or commission statutorily created within each
of those departments to continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time
as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
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