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2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 48
BY SENATORS FRED MILLS, BARROW, BOUDREAUX, HENSGENS, LUNEAU,
MCMATH, MIZELL, POPE AND WARD
SENATE. Directs the executive branch agencies under jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
Committee on Health and Welfare to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until
such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To direct the executive branch agencies under the jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
3 Committee on Health and Welfare to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports
4 until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 Senate Committee on Health and Welfare hereby gives notice to the
18 Louisiana Department of Health, Department of Children and Family Services, Department
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1 of Veteran's Affairs, and every agency or commission statutorily created within each of
2 those departments that, by the member's authorship of and affirmative votes to adopt this
3 Resolution the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have
4 been satisfied prior to July 1, extending the mandates for a continued five years of
5 mandatory reporting; and
6 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Louisiana
7 Department of Health, Department of Children and Family Services, Department of
8 Veteran's Affairs, and every agency or commission statutorily created within each of those
9 departments shall continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the
10 mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
11 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
12 does hereby direct the executive branch agencies under jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
13 Committee on Health and Welfare to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until
14 such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
15 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
16 secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, the secretary of the Department of Children
17 and Family Services, and the secretary of the Department of Veteran's Affairs.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SR 48 Original 2020 Regular Session Fred Mills
Pursuant to the requirement set forth in R.S. 49:1401(C), the Senate Committee on Health
and Welfare gives notice to the Louisiana Department of Health, Department of Children
and Family Services, Department of Veteran's Affairs, and every agency or commission
statutorily created within each of those departments that they are extending the mandate for
statutorily provided for reporting for an additional five years.
Directs LDH, DCFS, VA, 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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