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2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 55
BY SENATOR HEWITT
SENATE. Directs the executive branch agencies under jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
and Governmental Affairs Committee 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until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 and
3 Governmental Affairs Committee 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4 until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 and Governmental Affairs Committee hereby gives notice
18 to the Board of Ethics, Division of Administration, Department of Civil Service, the
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1 Department of State and every agency or commission statutorily created within each of those
2 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 first, 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 Board of
7 Ethics, Division of Administration, Department of Civil Service, the Department of State,
8 and every agency or commission statutorily created within each of those departments shall
9 continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the mandate is
10 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 and Governmental Affairs Committee to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports
14 until 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 executive secretary of the board of ethics, commissioner of administration, director of state
17 civil service, and the secretary of state.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Matt DeVille.
DIGEST
SR 55 Original 2020 Regular Session Hewitt
Pursuant to the requirement set forth in R.S. 49:1401(C), the Senate and Governmental
Affairs Committee gives notice to, 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 the Board of Ethics, Division of Administration, Department of State, Department
of Civil Service, 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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