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2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 59
BY SENATOR FIELDS
SENATE. Directs the executive branch agencies and entities under the jurisdictional
oversight of the Senate Committee on Education 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reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 and entities under the jurisdictional oversight of the
3 Senate Committee on Education 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4 until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 Education hereby gives notice to the state
18 Department of Education, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the
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1 Board of Regents, each public postsecondary education management board and institution,
2 the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance, and every agency, commission, or
3 other statutorily created entity within each of these, that by the adoption of this Resolution
4 the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have been
5 satisfied prior to July first, thereby extending the mandates for a continued five years of
6 mandatory reporting; and
7 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the state
8 Department of Education, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the
9 Board of Regents, each public postsecondary education management board and institution,
10 the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance, and every agency, commission, or
11 other statutorily created entity within each of these, shall continue to submit all statutorily
12 mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
13 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
14 does hereby direct the executive branch agencies and entities under the jurisdictional
15 oversight of the Senate Committee on Education to continue to submit statutorily mandated
16 reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
18 state superintendent of education, the commissioner of higher education, the president of the
19 State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the chairman of the Board of Regents,
20 the chairman of each public postsecondary education management board, and the executive
21 director of the Louisiana Office of Student and Financial Assistance.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cheryl Serrett.
DIGEST
SR 59 Original 2020 Regular Session Fields
Pursuant to the requirement set forth in R.S. 49:1401(C), the Senate Committee on
Education gives notice to the executive branch entities, and every agency, commission, or
other entity statutorily created within each of these, that it is extending the mandate for
statutorily provided reporting for an additional five years.
Directs each statutorily created agency and entity under the jurisdictional oversight of the
Senate Committee on Education to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until such
time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
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