HLS 21RS-1076 ORIGINAL
2021 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 9
BY REPRESENTATIVE ZERINGUE
HOUSE/RULES: Provides for recommittal of any instrument with a specified fiscal impact
to the Committee on Appropriations
1 A RESOLUTION
2To adopt House Rule 6.8(F)(2) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives to
3 provide relative to the recommittal of certain legislative instruments with a specified
4 fiscal impact to the Committee on Appropriations.
5 BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana
6that House Rule 6.8(F)(2) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby
7adopted to read as follows:
8 Rule 6.8. Recommittal: Constitutional amendments; special elections; propositions;
9 study resolutions; Capital Outlay Bill; minimum foundation resolution;
10 legislative instruments creating special funds; legislative instruments with a
11 fiscal impact; public records exceptions; interstate compacts
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13 F.
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15 (2) Any legislative instrument that is estimated to cause or result in a
16 reduction in revenues to the state of five hundred thousand dollars or more annually
17 in any one of the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal note prepared in
18 accordance with Joint Rule No. 4 shall be referred to a standing committee under the
19 provisions of Rule 6.5 and, if reported, shall be reported to the clerk of the House in
20 accordance with the requirements of Rule 6.11(A). However, after such report, any
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 21RS-1076 ORIGINAL
HR NO. 9
1 such House instrument ordered engrossed, immediately following the engrossment
2 order, and any such Senate instrument reported favorably or with amendments,
3 immediately following the reading of such report and action on any amendments
4 reported, shall be recommitted by the speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HR 9 Original 2021 Regular Session Zeringue
Abstract: Requires any legislative instrument with an estimated decrease in revenues to the
state of $500,000 or more, to be recommitted to the Appropriations Committee, if
reported by a different standing committee.
Present House Rule (House Rule 6.8) requires the recommittal of certain legislative
instruments including constitutional amendments (Civil Law & Procedure); resolutions
proposing certain studies (House and Governmental Affairs); the Capital Outlay Bill
(Appropriations); the MFP concurrent resolution (Appropriations); special funds
(Appropriations); Senate instruments with a net decrease in fees or a net increase in fees or
taxes of $500,000 or more (Ways & Means); public records exceptions (House and
Governmental Affairs); and provisions to join an interstate compact (House and
Governmental Affairs).
Present House Rule also requires any legislative instrument with an estimated fiscal cost of
$100,000 or more annually of state general funds in any one of the three ensuing fiscal years
as reflected in the fiscal note or with a fiscal cost that, although not specified, is indicated
in the fiscal note as likely to be $100,000 or more annually of state general funds in any of
the three ensuing fiscal years to be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations if
reported by another standing committee.
Proposed House Rule further requires any legislative instrument that is estimated to cause
or result in a reduction in revenues to the state of $500,000 or more annually in any one of
the three ensuing fiscal years as reflected in the fiscal note to be recommitted to the
Committee on Appropriations if reported by another standing committee.
(Adds House Rule 6.8(F)(2))
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