2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 68
BY SENATOR JOHNS
A RESOLUTION
To direct 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repealed.
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 Commerce, Consumer Protection and
International Affairs gives notice to the Department of Economic Development, the agencies
transferred to or placed within the office of the governor pursuant to R.S. 36:4.1, the
Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the office of the state fire marshal, code
enforcement and building safety, Public Safety Services, Department of Public Safety and
Corrections, the Department of Public Service, and every agency or commission statutorily
created within each of those departments 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 Department
of Economic Development, the agencies transferred to or placed within the office of the
governor pursuant to R.S. 36:4.1, the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the
office of the state fire marshal, code enforcement and building safety, Public Safety Services,
Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Department of Public Service, and every
agency or commission statutorily created within each of those departments 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 under 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Department of Economic Development, the office of the governor, the Department of
Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and the
Department of Public Service.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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