SLS 20RS-1806 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 57
BY SENATORS PRICE, FIELDS, ROBERT MILLS, MIZELL, PEACOCK AND
TALBOT
SENATE. Directs the executive branch agencies under the jurisdictional oversight of the
Senate Committee on Retirement 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such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 Retirement to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until
4 such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 Retirement hereby gives notice to the
18 Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana,
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1 Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System, and Louisiana State Police Retirement
2 System that, by the members' authorship of and affirmative votes to adopt this Resolution,
3 the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have been
4 satisfied prior to July first, extending the mandates for a continued five years of mandatory
5 reporting; and
6 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Louisiana
7 State Employees' Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, Louisiana
8 School Employees' Retirement System, and Louisiana State Police Retirement System 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 Committee on Retirement to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until such time
14 as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
15 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
16 Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana,
17 Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System, and Louisiana State Police Retirement
18 System.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Angela L. De Jean.
DIGEST
SR 57 Original 2020 Regular Session Price
Gives notice to the four state public retirement systems that the Senate Committee on
Retirement has taken the required action to extend the mandate for statutorily required
reports for an additional five years.
Directs the systems to continue to submit each statutorily mandated report until the mandate
is specifically amended or repealed.
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