RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 4 (SB 27) 2022 Regular Session Lambert
Prior law (Sunset law) provided that the Dept. of Environmental Quality and all the statutory
entities made a part of that department by law shall have begun to terminate their operations
on July 1, 2022, and that all legislative authority for such entities shall have ceased as of
July 1, 2023, unless the legislature enacted a bill authorizing the re-creation of the
department and its statutory entities prior thereto.
New law provides for the re-creation of the Dept. of Environmental Quality and its statutory
entities, effective June 30, 2022, for a four-year period.
Effective June 30, 2022.
(Adds R.S. 49:191(13)(a); repeals R.S. 49:191(10)(f))