§24. Acts; numbering; printing; publication

A. The governor shall transmit each bill delivered to him by the legislature, other than vetoed bills, to the secretary of state as soon as possible after he has taken action thereon and in any event no later than twenty days after the delivery of such bills to him. Similarly, the chief clerical officer of each house shall transmit all vetoed bills to the secretary of state after the legislature has acted or determined not to act on them, or has found a veto session unnecessary. The secretary of state shall keep a register of such bills and shall endorse therein the date and time of their receipt from the governor or the legislature. The secretary of state shall assign act numbers to all bills which become law.

B. The secretary of state shall, upon request, deliver copies of the acts, in numerical order by act number, to the person, firm, or corporation to whom the contract for printing acts was awarded. The acts shall be published in numerical order by act number. The secretary of state shall endorse in the register required in Subsection A of this Section the date and time of delivery of the acts for printing.

C. The secretary of state shall take all necessary actions to cause the acts and joint resolutions of the legislature to be made accessible on the Internet website or portal of the Official Journal of the State within the time limits established by R.S. 43:81.

D.(1) Within sixty days following the final adjournment of a regular, extraordinary, or emergency session of the legislature, the secretary of state shall cause a notice to be published once in the official journal of each parish, informing the public where the full text of the acts of the legislature may be viewed. Requirements for the notice shall include:

(a) The notice shall appear in a box format with a bolded outline in a size of not less than three columns by ten and one half inches or a comparable size.

(b) Appropriately-sized headline typeface shall be used.

(c) The language of the notice shall be prepared by the secretary of state and shall include the website address for the Official Journal of the State.

(2) The cost of each notice required by Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall be a maximum of ninety percent of the commercial display advertising rate charged by the official journal of each parish for a similar volume of business.

Amended by Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. Jan. 24, 1975; Acts 1988, No. 843, §1, eff. July 1, 1988; Acts 2010, No. 802, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.