RS 49:1401 - Reports of the executive branch

LA Rev Stat § 49:1401 (2018) (N/A)
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CHAPTER 21. REPORTS

§1401. Reports of the executive branch

A. Except as provided in Subsection C of this Section, a legislative mandate to produce any report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or after July 1, 2018, shall expire on the July first following the fifth regular session after the mandate was approved by the legislature.

B. Except as provided in Subsection C of this Section, a legislative mandate to produce any report required of an executive branch agency first occurring on or before June 30, 2018, shall expire on the July first following June 30, 2019, in the earliest year that is a multiple of five years after the mandate was initially approved by the legislature.

C. The standing committees having jurisdiction over the agency tasked with producing the report may extend the mandate for an additional five years by an affirmative vote of the majority of each committee at any time before the July first on which the mandate is set to expire.

D. The executive branch agency tasked with producing the report shall, not later than the January first immediately preceding the expiration date, notify the committees of the pending expiration of the mandate via electronic mail. The notification shall include at a minimum a citation of the original mandate requiring the report, a copy of the most recent report, and an estimate of the agency resources including costs expended in producing the report.

Acts 2018, No. 572, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.