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2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 68
BY SENATOR JOHNS
SENATE. Directs the executive branch agencies and entities under the jurisdictional
oversight of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International
Affairs to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports 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specifically amended or repealed.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 Commerce, Consumer Protections and
4 International Affairs until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or
5 repealed.
6 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(A) provides that a legislative mandate to produce any
7 report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or after July 1, 2018, shall
8 expire on the July first following the fifth regular session after the mandate was approved
9 by the legislature; and
10 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(B) provides that a legislative mandate to produce any
11 report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or before June 30, 2018,
12 shall expire on the July first following June 30, 2019, in the earliest year that is a multiple
13 of five years after the mandate was initially approved by the legislature; and
14 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:1401(C) provides that the standing committees having
15 jurisdiction over the agency tasked with producing the report may extend the mandate for
16 an additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any time
17 before July first on which the mandate is set to expire; and
18 WHEREAS, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and
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1 International Affairs gives notice to the Department of Economic Development, the agencies
2 transferred to or placed within the office of the governor pursuant to R.S. 36:4.1, the
3 Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the office of the state fire marshal, code
4 enforcement and building safety, Public Safety Services, Department of Public Safety and
5 Corrections, the Department of Public Service, and every agency or commission statutorily
6 created within each of those departments that, by the members' authorship of and affirmative
7 votes to adopt this Resolution, the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension
8 of all mandates have been satisfied prior to July first, extending the mandates for a continued
9 five years of mandatory reporting; and
10 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Department
11 of Economic Development, the agencies transferred to or placed within the office of the
12 governor pursuant to R.S. 36:4.1, the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the
13 office of the state fire marshal, code enforcement and building safety, Public Safety Services,
14 Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Department of Public Service, and every
15 agency or commission statutorily created within each of those departments shall continue
16 to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically
17 amended or repealed.
18 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
19 does hereby direct the executive branch agencies under jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
20 Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs to continue to
21 submit statutorily mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended
22 or repealed.
23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
24 Department of Economic Development, the office of the governor, the Department of
25 Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and the
26 Department of Public Service.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Beth O'Quin.
DIGEST
SR 68 Original 2020 Regular Session Johns
Directs certain executive branch agencies to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports
to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs until
such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
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