2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 56
BY SENATOR WHITE
A RESOLUTION
To direct the executive branch agencies under the jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
Committee on Finance 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time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 Committee on Finance hereby gives notice to the Department
of State Civil Service, the Department of Economic Development, the Department of
Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Department of Environmental Quality, the Louisiana
Department of Health, the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the Department of Natural
Resources, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Department of Revenue,
the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Transportation and
Development, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Department of Agriculture and
Forestry, the Department of Education, the Department of Insurance, the Department of
Justice, the Department of Public Service, the Department of State, the Department of the
Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and every agency or commission statutorily
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created within each of the 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
WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committees that the Department
of State Civil Service, the Department of Economic Development, the Department of
Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Department of Environmental Quality, the Louisiana
Department of Health, the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the Department of Natural
Resources, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Department of Revenue,
the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Transportation and
Development, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Department of Agriculture and
Forestry, the Department of Education, the Department of Insurance, the Department of
Justice, the Department of Public Service, the Department of State, the Department of the
Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and every agency or commission statutorily
created within each of the 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 who are statutorily required to submit
reports to the Senate Committee on Finance or are under jurisdictional oversight of the
Senate Committee on Finance 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
director of the Department of State Civil Service, the secretary of the Department of
Economic Development, the lieutenant governor of the Department of Culture, Recreation
and Tourism, the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality, the secretary of the
Louisiana Department of Health, the secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the
secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, the secretary of the Department of Public
Safety and Corrections, the secretary of the Department of Revenue, the secretary of the
Department of Children and Family Services, the secretary of the Department of
Transportation and Development, the secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries,
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the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, the superintendent of
education of the Department of Education, the commissioner of the Department of
Insurance, the attorney general of the Department of Justice, the executive secretary of the
Department of Public Service, the secretary of state of the Department of State, the state
treasurer of the Department of the Treasury, and the secretary of the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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