SLS 21RS-2479 ORIGINAL
2021 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 68
BY SENATOR MIZELL
COUNSELING/GUIDANCE. Extends the reporting and termination deadlines of the Task
Force on Benefits of Marriage and Incentives for Premarital and Pre-Divorce Counseling.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To extend the term of the Task Force on Benefits of Marriage and Incentives for Premarital
3 Counseling and Pre-Divorce Counseling that was created to study the benefits of
4 marriage and the possible incentives to promote premarital counseling and
5 pre-divorce counseling and to make policy recommendations to the legislature.
6 WHEREAS, pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 107 of the 2019 Regular
7 Session of the Louisiana Legislature, the legislature created the Task Force on Benefits of
8 Marriage and Incentives for Premarital Counseling and Pre-Divorce Counseling to conduct
9 a study of the issues related to the benefits of marriage on individual men, women, and
10 children, and on society as a whole and to study the impact that incentives for premarital and
11 pre-divorce counseling have on the reduction of divorce and to make policy
12 recommendations to the legislature regarding legislation that the task force may deem
13 appropriate to address the issues studied by the task force; and
14 WHEREAS, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 107 of the 2019 Regular Session of
15 the Louisiana Legislature sets forth that the task force is to report its findings and
16 recommendations, including any suggestions for legislation, to the legislature no later than
17 December 28, 2020; and
18 WHEREAS, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 107 of the 2019 Regular Session of
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1 the Louisiana Legislature sets forth that the task force will cease to exist on December 31,
2 2020 which was extended by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 71 of the 2020 Regular
3 Session of the Louisiana Legislature to December 31, 2021; and
4 WHEREAS, the task force determined that additional time is required to study fully
5 all of the issues related to the benefits of marriage and incentives for premarital and
6 pre-divorce counseling and to prepare and submit its report to the legislature.
7 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
8 extend the Task Force on Benefits of Marriage and Incentives for Premarital Counseling and
9 Pre-Divorce Counseling created by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 107 of the 2019
10 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature and provides that the task force membership
11 and functions shall be as set forth in that Resolution.
12 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby extend
13 the deadline by which the task force is to submit its report to the legislature to not later than
14 December 28, 2022, and the task force shall cease to exist on December 31, 2022.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SCR 68 Original 2021 Regular Session Mizell
Extends the reporting and termination deadlines of the Task Force on Benefits of Marriage
and Incentives for Premarital and Pre-Divorce Counseling created by SCR 107 of 2019 RS
to study issues related to benefits of marriage on individual men, women, and children, and
on society as a whole and to study the impact that incentives for premarital and pre-divorce
counseling have on the reduction of divorce.
Provides that the task force membership and functions set forth in SCR 107 will be extended.
Provides that the reporting deadline of the task force will be December 28, 2022, and the
task force will cease to exist on December 31, 2022.
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