RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 663 (SB 67) 2022 Regular Session Fred Mills
New law reorganizes and recodifies the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 13 of Title
49 of existing law.
Existing law requires an agency to hold a public hearing no earlier than 35 days after the
notice of the intended action is published in the La. Register.
Prior law required the hearing to be held no later than 40 days after notice publication.
New law extends the maximum time for a hearing to 45 days.
Existing 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. Prior law required publication within one business day from
submission of the report to the appropriate standing committee. New law extends the
deadline to five business days after submission.
Prior law provided for the La. Administrative Code to contain all executive orders issued by
the governor in effect at the time the Code was published. New law requires the Office of
the State Register to publish all executive orders issued by the governor.
New law directs the La. State Law Institute to take the following actions:
(1)Redesignate provisions of existing law into a new format and number scheme as
provided in new law without changing the text of the provisions except as provided
in new law.
(2)Change references throughout existing law as necessary to reflect the new citations
provided for in new law.
New law creates three parts in the current chapter of existing law, to be numbered, entitled,
and comprised as follows:
Part I.General Provisions
Comprising R.S. 49:950 through 957 of new law.
Part II.Rule Promulgation
Comprising R.S. 49:961 through 974.4 of new law.
Part III. Adjudication
Comprising R.S. 49:975 through 980 of new law.
New law retains existing law citations of R.S. 49:950, 951, and 973.
New law changes the citation of only the following existing law provisions:
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.
New law makes various technical changes to modernize existing law.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(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)