2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 71
BY SENATOR WARD
A RESOLUTION
To direct the executive branch agencies under the jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works to submit statutorily
mandated reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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
any 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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works
hereby gives notice to the Department of Transportation and Development, every agency or
commission statutorily created within the department, and any other agency under the
jurisdictional oversight of the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public
Works 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 Transportation and Development, and every agency or commission statutorily created
within the department, and every other agency under the jurisdictional oversight of the
Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works 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repealed.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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works 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
secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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