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2022 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 17
BY REPRESENTATIVE GEYMANN
A RESOLUTION
To amend and readopt House Rule 7.19 of the Rules of Order of the House of
Representatives to provide procedures for the appropriation of federal disaster funds
for ordinary recurring expenses.
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana
that House Rule 7.19 of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby
amended and readopted to read as follows:
Rule 7.19. Appropriation bills; one-time money or federal disaster funds for
recurring expenses; vote requirement
A.(1) The provisions of this Subparagraph shall apply to each appropriation
bill which appropriates one-time money or federal disaster funds for ordinary
recurring expenses except as otherwise provided in Paragraph C.
(a) No motion the effect of which is to finally pass an appropriation bill that
appropriates one-time money or federal disaster funds for ordinary recurring
expenses shall be in order unless immediately prior to such a motion a separate
motion to authorize the use of one-time money or federal disaster funds for ordinary
recurring expenses is adopted by a favorable vote of at least two-thirds of the
members present and voting.
(b) The provisions of Subsubparagraph (a) of this Paragraph shall not be
applicable to the General Appropriation Bill. If the General Appropriation Bill
appropriates one-time money or federal disaster funds for ordinary recurring
expenses, no motion to resolve into the Committee of the Whole to hear the General
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Appropriation Bill shall be in order, unless immediately prior to such a motion a
separate motion to authorize the use of one-time money or federal disaster funds for
ordinary recurring expenses is adopted by a favorable vote of at least two-thirds of
the members present and voting. No motion to concur in an amendment to the
General Appropriation Bill which appropriates one-time money or federal disaster
funds for ordinary recurring expenses shall be in order, unless immediately prior to
such a motion a separate motion to authorize the use of one-time money or federal
disaster funds for ordinary recurring expenses is adopted by a favorable vote of at
least two-thirds of the members present and voting. No motion to adopt a conference
committee report on the General Appropriation Bill which appropriates one-time
money or federal disaster funds for ordinary recurring expenses shall be in order,
unless immediately prior to such a motion a separate motion to authorize the use of
one-time money or federal disaster funds for ordinary recurring expenses is adopted
by a favorable vote of at least two-thirds of the members present and voting.
(2) The adoption of any Committee of the Whole House Amendment or any
floor amendment which proposes to appropriate one-time money or federal disaster
funds for ordinary recurring expenses shall require the favorable vote of at least two-
thirds of the members present and voting.
B. For purposes of this Rule, the following phrases shall have the following
meanings:
(1) "Federal disaster funds" means money received by the state from the
federal government in response to and for recovery from a federally declared disaster
or emergency.
(2) "Money available for appropriation" means the amount of money to be
received for a fiscal year by the state general fund and dedicated funds, exclusive of
federal funds.
(2) (3) "One-time money" means any one of the following:
(a) Money available for appropriation from any special treasury fund
excluding any monies forecast to be dedicated into such a fund by the Revenue
Estimating Conference in the official forecast for that fiscal year.
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(b) Money available for appropriation from the state general fund from one
time transactions, but not recognized as nonrecurring revenue by the Revenue
Estimating Conference, including but not limited to court settlements, the sale of
state facilities, and the privatization of state operations.
(3) (4) "Ordinary recurring expenses" means all expenses of a continuing or
recurring character, that in the normal course of administration, would be expected
to be necessary in approximately the same amounts each year.
C.(1) A motion the effect of which is to finally pass an appropriation bill that
appropriates one-time money for ordinary recurring expenses shall be in order
without a separate prior motion authorizing the use of such money if:
(1) (a) The total recommended general operating appropriations contained
in the executive budget for the fiscal year for which the appropriation is
recommended are less than or equal to the total general operating appropriations for
the existing operating budget of the current fiscal year included in the executive
budget; and
(2) (b) Appropriations from one-time money for ordinary recurring expenses
do not exceed the projected growth of the state general fund from the fiscal year for
which the appropriation is proposed and the subsequent fiscal year according to the
most recent official forecast.
(2) A motion the effect of which is to finally pass an appropriation bill that
appropriates federal disaster funds for ordinary recurring expenses shall be in order
without a separate prior motion authorizing the use of such money if:
(a) Ordinary recurring expenses are not increased above amounts budgeted
immediately prior to the federal declaration of the disaster or emergency.
(b) The federal disaster funds are payable to the state on a reimbursement
basis.
(c) The Revenue Estimating Conference adopts a revised forecast that
indicates that ordinary recurring revenues are sufficient to fully fund any increase in
ordinary recurring expenses for the current fiscal year and at least the next two fiscal
years.
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D.(1) Prior to consideration on third reading and final passage of any
appropriation bill, the Legislative Fiscal Officer shall submit a report to the House
of Representatives which shall indicate whether the appropriation bill appropriates
one-time money or federal disaster funds for ordinary recurring expenses. No
appropriation bill shall be considered unless the report of the Legislative Fiscal
Officer has been placed on the desk of each member.
(2)(a) Prior to the adoption of any Committee of the Whole House
Amendment, any floor amendment, and any conference committee report to an
appropriation bill, the presiding officer, after giving due consideration to the advice
of legislative staff, shall make a determination if the amendment or any amendment
recommended by the conference committee, as the case may be, appropriates one-
time money or federal disaster funds for ordinary recurring expenses.
(b) Prior to concurrence in an amendment to an appropriation bill, the
presiding officer, after giving due consideration to the advice of legislative staff,
shall make a determination if the amendment appropriates one-time money or federal
disaster funds for ordinary recurring expenses.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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