2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 65
BY SENATOR SMITH
A RESOLUTION
To direct 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specifically amended or repealed.
WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(A) provides that a legislative mandate to produce any
report required of an executive or judicial 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 B hereby gives notice to the
Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Crime Victims Reparation
Board, the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, the Reentry Advisory Council, Public Safety
Services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of motor
vehicles, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of
Criminal Justice, the Law Enforcement Data Task Force, the Louisiana Gaming Control
Board, the office of charitable gaming and office of alcohol and tobacco control in the
Department of Revenue, the Louisiana State Racing Commission, and the Board of
Examiners of Certified Shorthand Reporters, by the members' authorship of and affirmative
votes to adopt this Resolution; the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension
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of all mandates have been satisfied prior to July first, extending the mandates for a continued
five years of mandatory reporting; and
WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Louisiana
Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Crime Victims Reparation Board, the
Louisiana Sentencing Commission, the Reentry Advisory Council, Public Safety Services
of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of motor vehicles, the
Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice, the
Law Enforcement Data Task Force, the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, the office of
charitable gaming and office of alcohol and tobacco control in the Department of Revenue,
the Louisiana State Racing Commission, and the Board of Examiners of Certified Shorthand
Reporters 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 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Crime Victims Reparation
Board, the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, the Reentry Advisory Council, Public Safety
Services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the office of motor
vehicles, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of
Criminal Justice, the Law Enforcement Data Task Force, the Louisiana Gaming Control
Board, the office of charitable gaming and office of alcohol and tobacco control in the
Department of Revenue, the Louisiana State Racing Commission, and the Board of
Examiners of Certified Shorthand Reporters.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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