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2022 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 42
BY SENATOR WARD
SUNSET LAW. Re-creates Department of Economic Development. (6/30/22)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 49:191(13)(a) and to repeal R.S. 49:191(10)(e), relative to the Department of
3 Economic Development, including provisions to provide for the re-creation of the
4 Department of Economic Development and the statutory entities made a part of the
5 department by law; to provide for the effective termination date for all statutory
6 authority for the existence of such statutory entities; and to provide for related
7 matters.
8 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. Pursuant to R.S. 49:193, the Department of Economic Development and
10 the statutory entities made a part of the department by law shall be re-created effective June
11 30, 2022, and all statutory authority therefore is continued in accordance with the provisions
12 of Part XII of Chapter 1 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
13 Section 2. All statutory authority for the existence of the Department of Economic
14 Development and the statutory entities made a part of the department as re-created by
15 Section 1 of this Act shall cease as of July 1, 2027, pursuant to R.S. 49:191. However the
16 Department of Economic Development may be re-created prior to such date in accordance
17 with the provisions of Part XII of Chapter 1 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of
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1 1950.
2 Section 3. The provisions of R.S. 49:193 are hereby superseded to the extent that
3 those provisions are in conflict with the provisions of this Act.
4 Section 4. R.S. 49:191(13)(a) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
5 ยง191. Termination of legislative authority for existence of statutory entities; phase-
6 out period for statutory entities; table of dates
7 Notwithstanding any termination dates set by any previous Act of the
8 legislature, the statutory entities set forth in this Section shall begin to terminate their
9 operations on July first of each of the following years, and all legislative authority
10 for the existence of any statutory entity, as defined in R.S. 49:190, shall cease as of
11 July first of the following year, which shall be the termination date:
12 * * *
13 (13) July 1, 2026:
14 (a) The Department of Economic Development and all statutory entities
15 made a part of the department by law.
16 Section 5. R.S. 49:191(10)(e) is hereby repealed in its entirety.
17 Section 6. This Act shall become effective on June 30, 2022; if vetoed by the
18 governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become effective on
19 June 30, 2022, or on the day following such approval by the legislature, whichever is later.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Xavier I. Alexander.
DIGEST
SB 42 Original 2022 Regular Session Ward
Present law (Sunset law) provides that the Dept. of Economic Development and all the
statutory entities made a part of that department by law shall begin to terminate their
operations as of July 1, 2022, and that all legislative authority for such entities shall cease
as of July 1, 2023, unless the legislature enacts a bill authorizing the re-creation of the
department and its statutory entities prior thereto.
Proposed law provides for the general re-creation of the Dept. of Economic Development
and its statutory entities, effective June 30, 2022, for a four-year period. Supersedes the
provisions of the "Sunset" law that set out the procedure for review and re-creation and that
require a separate bill to re-create each statutory entity within the department along with
additional provisions.
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Effective June 30, 2022.
(Adds R.S. 49:191(13)(a); repeals R.S. 49:191(10)(e))
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