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2020 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 73
BY SENATORS TALBOT, BERNARD, BOUIE, CATHEY, FESI, JACKSON, ROBERT
MILLS, PEACOCK AND SMITH
LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT. Directs state agencies and entities under the jurisdictional
oversight of the Senate Committee on Insurance to continue to submit statutorily mandated
reports until such time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To direct the executive branch agencies under the jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
3 Committee on Insurance to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until such
4 time as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.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 an additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any time
16 before the July first on which the mandate is set to expire; and
17 WHEREAS, the Senate Committee on Insurance hereby gives notice to the
18 Department of Insurance and every agency or commission statutorily created within the
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1 department that, by the members' authorship of and affirmative votes to adopt this
2 Resolution, the provisions of R.S. 49:1401(C) governing the extension of all mandates have
3 been satisfied prior to July first, extending the mandates for a continued five years of
4 mandatory reporting; and
5 WHEREAS, it is further the direction and will of the committee that the Department
6 of Insurance and every agency or commission statutorily created within the department shall
7 continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the mandate is
8 specifically amended or repealed.
9 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
10 does hereby direct the executive branch agencies under jurisdictional oversight of the Senate
11 Committee on Insurance to continue to submit statutorily mandated reports until such time
12 as the mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
13 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
14 commissioner of insurance.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Brandi Cannon.
DIGEST
SR 73 Original 2020 Regular Session Talbot
Directs the Dept. of Insurance and every agency or commission statutorily created within
the department to continue to submit all statutorily mandated reports until such time as the
mandate is specifically amended or repealed.
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