ENROLLED
ACT No. 377
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 433
BY REPRESENTATIVE ZERINGUE
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 13:82.1, relative to judicial budget reports; to provide for a uniform budget
3 document; to provide for an annual report; to provide for a submission deadline; to
4 provide for the publication of an annual report; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 13:82.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง82.1. Uniform budget document; supreme court annual report
8 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no later than October
9 first of each calendar year, the judicial administrator for the supreme court shall
10 develop or revise a uniform budget document designed to show itemized revenues
11 and expenditures for the supreme court, district courts, courts of appeal, city courts,
12 municipal courts, and traffic courts. Once finalized, the judicial administrator shall
13 submit the form to the chief justice of the supreme court. The judicial administrator
14 shall also cause the form to be distributed to the chief judge of each district court,
15 court of appeal, city court, municipal court, and traffic court that receives monies
16 pursuant to an appropriation as provided by R.S. 13:83. Each such court shall submit
17 its completed form to the supreme court, and the supreme court shall complete its
18 form, no later than December thirty-first of that same calendar year. By the deadline
19 set forth in R.S. 39:51(D), the supreme court shall submit a publicly available report
20 containing all completed forms to the legislature and cause the completed forms to
be published on its website.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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