RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 500 (SB 107) 2022 Regular Session Luneau
Prior law provides that the Incumbent Worker Training Program (IWTP) re-authorization
will be expressly renewed by the legislature prior to July 1, 2022, in order for amounts to be
charged and credited to the Incumbent Worker Training Account in the following calendar
year for use in funding the program.
New law retains prior law but requires the legislature to renew the IWTP re-authorization
prior to July 1, 2026.
Prior law provides that the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) and all the statutory
entities made a part of that department by law will begin to terminate operations on July 1,
2022, and that all legislative authority for such entities ceases as of July 1, 2023, unless the
legislature authorizes the re-creation of the department and its statutory entities prior thereto.
New law provides for the general re-creation of the LWC and its statutory entities, effective
June 30, 2022, in accordance with the "sunset" law.
New law supersedes the provisions of the "sunset" law which set out the procedure for
review and re-creation and which require a separate bill to re-create each statutory entity
within the department along with additional provisions.
New law makes July 1, 2027, the new termination date and termination would begin July 1,
2026, unless the department is re-created again.
New law authorizes the secretary to employ, appoint, remove, assign, and promote such
personnel as is necessary for the efficient administration of the executive office of the
secretary and for the performance of its respective powers, duties, functions, and
responsibilities and such other personnel, who are not assigned to an office, as may be
necessary for the efficient administration of the commission and for the performance of the
responsibilities, powers, duties, and functions of agencies transferred to it.
New law retains prior law and makes the secretary's prior law authority applicable to each
other office in the department.
Effective June 30, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 23:1553(G) and R.S. 36:304(B)(1)(a)(i); adds R.S. 49:191(13); repeals R.S.
49:191(10)(l))