2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 55
BY SENATOR HEWITT
A RESOLUTION
To direct the executive branch agencies under the 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until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(A) provides that a legislative mandate to produce any
report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or after July 1, 2018, shall
expire on the July first following the fifth regular session after the mandate was approved
by the legislature; and
WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(B) provides that a legislative mandate to produce any
report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or before June 30, 2018,
shall expire on the July first following June 30, 2019, in the earliest year that is a multiple
of five years after the mandate was initially approved by the legislature; and
WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(C) provides that the standing committees having
jurisdiction over the agency tasked with producing the report may extend the mandate for
an additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any time
before July first on which the mandate is set to expire; and
WHEREAS, the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee hereby gives notice
to the Board of Ethics, Division of Administration, Department of Civil Service, the
Department of State and every agency or commission statutorily created within each of those
departments that, by the member's authorship of, and affirmative votes to, adopt this
Resolution the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have
been satisfied prior to July first, extending the mandates for a continued five years of
mandatory reporting; and
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WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Board of
Ethics, Division of Administration, Department of Civil Service, the Department of State,
and every agency or commission statutorily created within each of those departments shall
continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the mandate is
specifically amended or repealed.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby direct 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
executive secretary of the board of ethics, commissioner of administration, director of state
civil service, and the secretary of state.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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