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SENATE SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS
SB 67 2022 Regular Session Fred Mills
KEYWORD AND SUMMARY AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE. Provides for the reorganization and
modernization of the Administrative Procedure Act. (8/1/22)
SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE BILL
1. Removes proposed changes to the scope of review and the conduct of judicial
review of adjudications.
2. Makes technical changes.
DIGEST OF THE SENATE BILL AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
SB 67 Reengrossed 2022 Regular Session Fred Mills
Proposed law reorganizes and recodifies the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 13 of
Title 49 of present law.
Present law provides that an agency shall hold a public hearing no earlier than 35 days and
no later than 40 days after the notice of the intended action is published in the La. Register.
Proposed law extends the maximum time for a hearing to 45 days.
Present law provides for an agency to publish on its website public notice that the report
summarizing public comments and the agency responses has been delivered to the
appropriate standing committee within one business day from submission of the report to the
appropriate standing committee. Proposed law expands the deadline to five business days
after submission.
Present law provides for the La. Administrative Code to contain all executive orders issued
by the governor which are in effect at the time the Code is published. Proposed law requires
the Office of the State Register to publish all executive orders issued by the governor.
Proposed law directs the La. State Law Institute to take the following actions:
(1)Redesignate provisions of present law into a new format and number scheme as
provided in proposed law without changing the text of the provisions except as
provided in proposed law.
(2)Change references throughout present law as necessary to reflect the new citations
provided for in proposed law.
Proposed law creates three parts in the current chapter of present law, to be numbered,
entitled, and comprised as follows:
Part I.General Provisions
Comprising R.S. 49:950 through 957 of proposed law.
Part II.Rule Promulgation
Comprising R.S. 49:961 through 974.4 of proposed law.
Part III. Adjudication
Comprising R.S. 49:975 through 980 of proposed law.
Proposed law does not change the present law citations of R.S. 49:950, 951, and 973.
Proposed law changes only the citation of the following present law provisions: HASBSB67 TYLERT 4395
R.S. 49:952, 954.3, 956, 956.1, 957, 958, 961, 962, 962.1, 963, 964, 965, 965.1, 966,
967.1, 968.1, 978.2, 978.3, and 978.6.
Proposed law makes various technical changes to modernize present law.
(Amends R.S. 49:951(9), 953, 953.1(A)(1)(intro. para.), 953.1(A)(5), and (C), 954(A) and
(B)(2), 954.1(A), 955(B), (C), (E), and (F), 959(A), 960(B), 964.1(C), 966(A), 967,
968(B)(intro. para.), 968(B)(24)(b), (C)(2) and (4), (D)(1)(a), and (D)(1)(b)(intro. para.),
(D)(1)(b)(i), and (c) and (3), (E)(1)(a), 968(F)(1)(intro. para.), (G), (H), (J), and (K)(2),
969(A), 970(A), 971(A)(1) and (3) and (B), 974(B), (C), and (E), 978.1, 978.4(A)(2),
978.5(B) and (C), 978.7(intro. para.), and 978.8(A) and (B); adds R.S. 49:953.1(G), 963, and
964)
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Christine Arbo Peck
Senate Counsel