Recreates the Louisiana Public Defender Board Optimal Funding Group to study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of establishing an optimal funding mechanism for the Louisiana Public Defender Board.
Recreates the Louisiana Public Defender Optimal Funding Group to study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of establishing an optimal funding mechanism for the Louisiana Public Defender Board.
Recreates the Louisiana Public Defender Optimal Funding Group to study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of establishing an optimal funding mechanism for the Louisiana Public Defender Board.
Recreates the Louisiana Public Defender Optimal Funding Group to study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of establishing an optimal funding mechanism for the Louisiana Public Defender Board.
To create the office of state public defender and transfer authority from the Louisiana Public Defender Board. (gov sig) (Item #7) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
Requests the Louisiana Public Defender Board to study whether the statewide public defender system should be privatized via a system of contract employment.
Public defender law modified, payment by defendant for public defender services removed, ad hoc Board of Public Defense removed, conditions of the positions of public defenders amended, and money appropriated.
Requests the study of the feasibility of establishing a tax credit program as a funding mechanism for public-private partnership investment in Louisiana infrastructure projects.
Creates the Office of the State Public Defender and Justice Investment and provides for the relocation of certain court-related service providers and related funding (RE SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
Requests that the Bd. of Regents and the State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Education, with the Taylor Foundation, La. Office of Student Financial Assistance, public postsecondary education management boards, and certain others, study certain issues relative to TOPS
Requests the Louisiana Workforce Commission and the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs to study employment practices and professional licensing requirements to benefit veterans in the workforce
Creates a task force to study meaningful oversight of the professional healthcare licensing boards statutorily created within the Department of Health and Hospitals.