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2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 71
BY SENATOR WARD
LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT. To direct the executive branch agencies under the
jurisdictional oversight of the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public
Works to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To direct the executive branch agencies under the jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
3 Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works to submit statutorily
4 mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 branch agency first occurring on or after July 1, 2018, shall
7 expire on the July first following the fifth regular session after the mandate was approved
8 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 any additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any
16 time before July first on which the mandate is set to expire; and
17 WHEREAS, the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
18 hereby gives notice to the Department of Transportation and Development, every agency or
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1 commission statutorily created within the department, and any other agency under the
2 jurisdictional oversight of the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public
3 Works that, by the members' authorship of and affirmative votes to adopt this Resolution;
4 the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have been
5 satisfied prior to July first, extending the mandates for a continued five years of mandatory
6 reporting; and
7 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Department
8 of Transportation and Development, and every agency or commission statutorily created
9 within the department, and every other agency under the jurisdictional oversight of the
10 Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works shall continue to submit
11 all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or
12 repealed.
13 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
14 does hereby direct the executive branch agencies under jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
15 Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works to continue to submit statutorily
16 mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
18 secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Xavier I. Alexander.
DIGEST
SR 71 Original 2020 Regular Session Ward
Directs the Department of Transportation and Development to continue to submit statutorily
mandated reports to the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
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