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2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 65
BY SENATOR SMITH
LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT. Directs certain executive branch agencies to continue to
submit statutorily mandated reports to the Senate Committee on Judiciary B until such time
as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To direct certain executive branch agencies to continue to submit statutorily mandated
3 reports to the Senate Committee on Judiciary B until such time as the mandate is
4 specifically amended or repealed.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 or judicial branch agency first occurring on or after July 1,
7 2018, shall expire on the July first following the fifth regular session after the mandate was
8 approved 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 Judiciary B hereby gives notice to the
18 Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Crime Victims Reparation
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1 Board, the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, the Reentry Advisory Council, Public Safety
2 Services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of motor
3 vehicles, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of
4 Criminal Justice, the Law Enforcement Data Task Force, the Louisiana Gaming Control
5 Board, the office of charitable gaming and office of alcohol and tobacco control in the
6 Department of Revenue, the Louisiana State Racing Commission, and the Board of
7 Examiners of Certified Shorthand Reporters, by the members' authorship of and affirmative
8 votes to adopt this Resolution; the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension
9 of all mandates have been satisfied prior to July first, extending the mandates for a continued
10 five years of mandatory reporting; and
11 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Louisiana
12 Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Crime Victims Reparation Board, the
13 Louisiana Sentencing Commission, the Reentry Advisory Council, Public Safety Services
14 of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of motor vehicles, the
15 Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice, the
16 Law Enforcement Data Task Force, the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, the office of
17 charitable gaming and office of alcohol and tobacco control in the Department of Revenue,
18 the Louisiana State Racing Commission, and the Board of Examiners of Certified Shorthand
19 Reporters shall continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the
20 mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
21 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
22 does hereby direct certain executive branch agencies to continue to submit statutorily
23 mandated reports to the Senate Committee on Judiciary B until such time as the mandate is
24 specifically amended or repealed.
25 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
26 Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Crime Victims Reparation
27 Board, the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, the Reentry Advisory Council, Public Safety
28 Services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of motor
29 vehicles, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of
30 Criminal Justice, the Law Enforcement Data Task Force, the Louisiana Gaming Control
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1 Board, the office of charitable gaming and office of alcohol and tobacco control in the
2 Department of Revenue, the Louisiana State Racing Commission, and the Board of
3 Examiners of Certified Shorthand Reporters.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
SR 65 Original 2020 Regular Session Smith
Directs certain executive branch agencies to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports
to the Senate Committee on Judiciary B until such time as the mandate is specifically
amended or repealed.
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