2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 59
BY SENATOR FIELDS
A RESOLUTION
To direct 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until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
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 Education hereby gives notice to the state
Department of Education, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the
Board of Regents, each public postsecondary education management board and institution,
the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance, and every agency, commission, or
other statutorily created entity within each of these, that by the adoption of this Resolution
the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have been
satisfied prior to July first, thereby 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 state
Department of Education, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the
Board of Regents, each public postsecondary education management board and institution,
the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance, and every agency, commission, or
other statutorily created entity within each of these, 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mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
state superintendent of education, the commissioner of higher education, the president of the
State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the chairman of the Board of Regents,
the chairman of each public postsecondary education management board, and the executive
director of the Louisiana Office of Student and Financial Assistance.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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