2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 60
BY SENATOR PEACOCK
A RESOLUTION
To direct certain executive and judicial branch agencies to continue to submit statutorily
mandated reports to the Senate Committee on Judiciary A 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mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 Judiciary A hereby gives notice to the
Division of Administration related to Patient's Compensation Fund, Louisiana Department
of Children and Family Services, Louisiana State Law Institute, and the Judicial Council of
the Supreme Court of Louisiana that, by the members' 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 Division of
Administration related to Patient's Compensation Fund, Louisiana Department of Children
and Family Services, Louisiana State Law Institute, and the Judicial Council of the Supreme
Court of Louisiana 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as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 certain executive and judicial branch agencies to continue to submit
statutorily mandated reports to the Senate Committee on Judiciary A 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
Division of Administration, Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services,
Louisiana State Law Institute, and the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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