2010 Regular Session

Establishes requirements for the closure of the Earl K. Long Medical Center and the transfer of certain services to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Constitutional amendment to extend the time in which the owner of a homestead must reoccupy the homestead in order to retain the homestead's homestead exemption or its special assessment level and to provide for claiming the extension. (1/01/11)(2/3-CA13s1(A)) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Charmaine Marchand Stiaes

Authorizes a taxpayer to recover costs related to arbitrary tax assessments (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Rickey Nowlin

Requires that a title opinion contain a search of the mortgage or public records for a specified period of time for federal judgments or if the transaction being insured is a sale or a mortgage

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

(Constitutional Amendment) Exempts property owned by certain disabled veterans and spouses from ad valorem property tax (EN -$2,000,000 LF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Jerome Richard

Provides relative to certificates of insurance (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

Sponsor: Kevin Pearson

Requires the recipient of certain economic development funds to adhere to certain hiring, purchasing, reporting, and repayment conditions (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Girod Jackson

Provides for changes to reporting requirements of the Department of Economic Development and the Economic Development Corporation (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

Provides for additional public notice requirements related to proposed increases in millage rates without voter approval (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Transfers certain property in Iberville Parish

Sponsor: Karen St Germain

Provides relative to military service credit and compliance with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). (6/30/10) (EN NO IMPACT APV)

Sponsor: B.L. Shaw

Provides that applicants for Road Home grants who were denied because of unresolved succession/heirship issues be given a grant subject to a covenant restriction filed against the property. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Provides relative to requirements for private contracts with agencies or firms for the collection of local sales and use tax (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Rickey Nowlin

Creates Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority within the Department of Transportation and Development from January 1, 2011 until January 1, 2012; creates the Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority as a political subdivision effective January 1, 2012; transfers management and control of non-flood assets from the division of administration to the authority. (See Act)

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Provides relative to certain not-for-profit organizations subject to legislative audit

Sponsor: Nicholas Lorusso

Require certain health and accident insurance carriers to provide utilization data within fourteen business days after a written request is received. (8/15/10).

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Repeals certain examination requirements of retail florists

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

(Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the sale of expropriated property

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Relative to the Harbor Police Retirement System (Port of New Orleans), provides that persons retired from other systems are eligible for membership from their date of hire (EN +$233,000 APV)

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Revenue Sharing distribution for Fiscal Year 2010-2011

Sponsor: James Fannin

(Constitutional Amendment) Relative to public retirement systems, requires a 2/3 vote to enact any changes to retirement provisions having an actuarial cost (EN NO IMPACT APV)

Sponsor: Kevin Pearson

Requires the commissioner of administration and the Board of Regents to establish and implement an agency attrition analysis process. (8/15/10) (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jack Donahue

Provides relative to the repurchase of marine products

Sponsor: Noble Ellington

Provides relative to notices for demolition or removal of buildings

Sponsor: Girod Jackson

Allows a taxpayer who is subject to any collection procedure for local sales tax, or whose request for a refund of such tax has been denied by a collector, to initiate a mandatory, binding, arbitration proceeding. (See Act) (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsor: Walker Hines

(Constitutional Amendment) Permits criminal defendants in certain cases to waive trial by jury with the consent of the prosecutor and court approval (EG SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsor: Jack Montoucet

Provides for review and evaluation of fees appropriated in the General Appropriation Bill. (7/1/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jack Donahue

Provides relative to the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Relative to public retirement systems, provides relative to investments. (7/1/10) (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for FY 2010-2011

Sponsor: Jim Tucker

Enacts the Louisiana Exchange Sale of Receivables Act. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Provides for notice to and review by certain permit holders of changes made by the Dept. of Environmental Quality

Sponsor: Karen St Germain

Provides that certain contracts obtained through bribery or other criminal acts shall be absolutely null and void as contrary to public policy. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Relative to the state retirement systems, makes changes to the benefits for persons hired on or after January 1, 2011 (EN -$13,070,780 FC EX)

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Allows nonprofit victim's rights advocacy organizations to nominate members to the Board of Pardons, the Board of Parole, and the Crime Victims Reparations Board. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Julie Quinn

Provide for biannual renewal of surplus lines broker license, commissions and continuing education hours. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Provides that the commercial season for speckled trout remain open until the maximum annual quota is reached

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Provides in each fiscal year, at least $200,000 but no more than seven percent of the federal revenues received by the state generated from Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activity may be used for administrative costs or fees. (8/15/10) (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

Sponsor: D.A. Gautreaux

Creates the Washington Artillery license plate

Sponsor: Nicholas Lorusso

Provides relative to arson and use of explosives. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Sherri Cheek

Provides relative to penalties for certain second felony sex offenses and for registration and certain employment prohibitions for sex offenders. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Nancy Landry

Creates the Tax Refund Anticipation Loan Act. (1/01/11)

Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb

Provides for the Five Year Estimated Revenue Loss Chart from the Tax Exemption Budget to be an appendix to the General Appropriation Bill. (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Increases penalties for operators of motor vehicles cited for failure to yield the right-of-way

Sponsor: M.J. Smiley

Provides for certain state appropriation bills and political subdivisions' budgets to compare the previous year's funding level. (1/1/11) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Nicholas Gautreaux

Provides for buffer zones for solid waste landfill facilities

Sponsor: Austin Badon

Prohibits the transmission of indecent visual depictions in certain circumstances

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Revenue to require electronic filing of certain returns when electronic filing of a similar return or report is required by the Internal Revenue Service. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Provides for the creation of the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association Law. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Eric LaFleur

Creates the Louisiana Electric Investment Recovery Securitization Act

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Provides for a uniform Anatomical Gift Act (EN +$63,246 GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: James Fannin

Relative to the Harbor Police Retirement System (Port of New Orleans), provides for the number of board members necessary for board decisions (EN NO IMPACT APV)

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Prohibits coverage of elective abortions by health insurance issuers

Sponsor: John LaBruzzo

Establishes the La. Emergency Response Network as the lead agency to govern, develop, and manage a comprehensive statewide trauma system that would address trauma and time-sensitive illness (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

Sponsor: Helena Moreno

Provides relative to rural hospital reimbursement. (8/15/10) (EN +$11,000,000 GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Mickey Guillory

Provides relative to the transfer of child support actions

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides relative to therapeutic switching of medications under certain circumstances. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: James Fannin

Revises the Social Work Practice Act. (1/1/11)

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Provides for the leasing of the John J. Hainkel, Jr., Home and Rehabilitation Center and a portion of Southeast Louisiana Hospital (RR1 +$382,821 GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Neil Abramson

Removes provisions which allow an employer to waive the existence of certain criminal offenses when hiring any licensed ambulance personnel or nonlicensed persons. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: William McPherson

Creates the St. Mary Hydroelectric Authority (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

Sponsor: Sam Jones

Provides relative to the Public Retirement Systems' Actuarial Committee. (7/1/10) (EN NO IMPACT FC)

Sponsor: D.A. Gautreaux

Provides relative to health insurance coverage for dependent children

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Provides relative to the application of foreign laws. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Daniel Martiny

Makes changes to the nursing home reimbursement methodology. (8/15/10) (EN SD RV See Note)

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Amends provisions of the habitual offender law (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Willie Mount

Provides relative to the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Norby Chabert

Provides with respect to malfeasance in office committed by volunteers and contract workers of DPS&C (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Requires an obstetric ultrasound be performed prior to an abortion. (8/15/10) (EN GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Dalton Honore

Provides for the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. (see Act) (RE2 FF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Authorizes the governing authority of the city of Mansfield to levy and collect a hotel occupancy tax subject to voter approval (EN +$38,000 LF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Richard Burford

Authorizes a land swap between the Red River, Atchafalaya, and Bayou Beouf Levee District and an adjacent landowners (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Robert Johnson

Provides with respect to the arrest or release of persons with outstanding warrants

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Subject to adoption of proposed consitutional amendment, authorizes extensions of the homestead exemption and/or the special assessment level for owners who are unable to reoccupy their homesteads within the five-year period set forth in present law. (See Act) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Charmaine Marchand Stiaes

Provides for a comprehensive revision of the law regarding bail

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Provides for group health insurance coverage involving a trust for multiple associations and members and employees of these associations. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Jack Donahue

Provides for membership on the Council on Peace Officer Standards and Training and the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Limits the ability of certain employees and employers to participate in the Parochial Employees' Retirement System. (7/1/10) (EN NO IMPACT APV)

Sponsor: D.A. Gautreaux

Requires the Board of Regents to submit a report to certain legislative committees regarding the formula adopted to fund institutions of post secondary education. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Adds drugs to Schedule I classification. (8/15/10) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Scott Simon

Limits liability of levee districts for the permit or use of bicycle paths or walkways for recreational purposes by the public

Sponsor: Robert Billiot

Provides with respect to automobile insurance policies. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Provides relative to legal finfish possession by commercial crabbers

Sponsor: Eddie Lambert

Increases penalty for violations of private investigator law (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Michael Danahay

Require certain notifications and procedures relating to insufficient reporting of taxable property (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Simone Champagne

Provides for holds by law enforcement agencies on motor vehicles stored at storage facilities

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

Establishes requirements for contracts for the privatization of services currently provided by facilities operated by the office of mental health (EG1 SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides for early retirement of LASERS members with actuarial reduction of benefits; requires abolition of positions vacated by early retirement and permits reestablishment and filling of such positions under limited circumstances

Sponsor: Jerome Richard

Provides relative to the sale and purchase of health insurance coverage (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Authorizes the use of alternative refrigerants in mobile air conditioning systems

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Relative to the La. State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS), allows benefits payable to children beneficiaries of deceased retirees to be paid to a trust (EN NO IMPACT)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides relative to the enrollment of certain children in attend BESE-approved adult education programs

Sponsor: Sam Jones

Provides relative to contracts with dental providers

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides relative to tax sales and adjudicated property (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

Sponsor: Anthony Ligi

Authorizes the prevailing party in certain collection actions to recover attorney fees and costs under certain circumstances (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Rickey Nowlin

Provides for cooperative endeavor agreements for the withdrawal of running surface water for certain purposes

Sponsor: Wayne Waddell

Provides relative to the automatic renewal of contracts with automatic renewal clauses if the consumer is notified and given an opportunity to cancel. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: William McPherson

Prohibits certain contractors from bidding on public projects

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Requires that the department annually report the employee turnover rate to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. (7/1/10)

Sponsor: Jack Donahue

Provides for an equipment utilization review for proton beam radiotherapy equipment. (2/3-CA7s2.1(A))(gov sig)

Sponsor: James Fannin

Provides with respect to concealed handgun permits

Sponsor: Henry Burns

Provides relative to campaign contributions and expenditures by individuals. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Robert Kostelka

Provides for a minimum mandatory sentence of one year for intentional and malicious acts of cruelty to the infirmed (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: James Fannin

Provides relative to the River Park Development District in East Baton Rouge Parish (gov sig) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Provides relative to apprentices. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Provides relative to religious freedom. (8/15/10) (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Dalton Honore

Requires the annual reporting of certain information relative to capital outlay projects (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: James Fannin

Allows the possession of firearms on certain public lands. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: William McPherson

Allows juveniles to obtain state identification without permission from parent or guardian

Sponsor: Cedric Richmond

Provides for certain exceptions to public records law. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Robert Kostelka

Provides relative to juvenile detention standards and licensing requirements (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Creates the La. Intrastate Rail Compact in DOTD, relative to powers, duties, responsibilities, and functions of the compact

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Provide for exception to filing of reports through the Board of Ethics Computerized Data Management System in certain situations. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Provides for the applicability of, and exemptions from, the Administrative Procedure Act. (gov sig)

Sponsor: William McPherson

Provides relative to disclosure of information concerning certain boards and commissions (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: M.J. Smiley

Provides with respect to the La. Sentencing Commission

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Designates an overpass

Sponsor: Karen St Germain

Allows persons riding bicycles upon a roadway, which includes an improved shoulder, the option of riding on the improved shoulder

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides relative to sex offender notification requirements

Sponsor: Ledricka Thierry

Provides for communication of certain producer information

Sponsor: Harold Ritchie

Authorizes the use of a portion of Interstate 49 as an alternate route for U.S. Highway No. 71 and U.S. Highway No. 167 to haul agronomic or horticultural crop on the interstate system

Sponsor: Christopher Roy

Provides relative to an employer's access to conviction records of a potential employee

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Provides with respect to arbitration or any other type of binding mediation by automobile insurers for certain purposes

Sponsor: Joseph Harrison

Provides relative to late filing fees and penalties for legislative branch and executive branch lobbying

Sponsor: Taylor Barras

Provides relative to the disposition of certain funds payable to the state as the lessor of certain mineral leases. (8/15/10) (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Nicholas Gautreaux

Creates a railroad district encompassing Vermilion and Iberia parishes. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Nicholas Gautreaux

Provides relative to the sale, barter, trade, and possession of nonindigenous and poisonous snakes and constrictors

Sponsor: Dorothy Hill

Amends the definition of "racketeering activity" to include additional offenses. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Willie Mount

Prohibits towing and storage companies from charging gate fees

Sponsor: Cameron Henry

Provides for suspension of driver's license upon premature removal of ignition interlock device

Sponsor: Jean Doerge

Repeals provisions relative to compensation in certain expropriation proceedings (EGC SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Allows state agencies the option of utilizing DOTD to construct, improve, and repair roads surrounding their offices and other facilities when the agency pays for the work to be performed (EN NO IMPACT SD EX See Note)

Sponsor: Robert Billiot

Prohibits the use of tracking device to track the location or movement of a person without the person's consent. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Walker Hines

Amends provisions regarding criminal background checks. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: William McPherson

Expands the crime of disarming a peace officer to include the taking of all forms of law enforcement equipment

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Requires state agencies to implement a solid waste reduction and recycling program (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Provides relative to the adoption of airport zoning regulations ensuring compatible land use and aviation safety. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Provides relative to the forfeiture of vehicles and the allocation of monies collected from those forfeitures involved in certain DWI arrests. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Changes requirements for mini-vehicles to operate on state streets and highways. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Requires a public comment period at a public meeting at any point prior to a vote on an agenda item"

Sponsor: Rosalind Jones

Provides for restitution and disgorgement of profits (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides limitations on persons convicted of felonies from participating in governmental contracts (EG SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Authorizes the publishing of notices of delinquency and tax sale information over the Internet (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Christopher Roy

Provides with respect to fires of suspicious origin

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Provides relative to the Incumbent Worker Training Program. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Authorizes free and unhampered passage on the Tomey J. Doucet Bridge for certain emergency vehicles of the town of Grand Isle (EN -$48,463 SG RV See Note)

Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair

Provides for certain probation fees paid into the Sex Offender Registry Technology Fund. (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: A.G. Crowe

Extends the length of time relative to the utilization of design-build contracts (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

Sponsor: Girod Jackson

Provides relative to rulemaking by the Louisiana Willdlife and Fisheries Commission. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Provides relative to the prohibition on certain precinct changes during certain time periods

Sponsor: Richard Gallot

Creates the Louisiana Arson Registry. (8/15/10) (RE1 INCREASE SD RV See Note)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Establishes an additional state employee position in the office of the registrar in St. Landry Parish. (8/15/10) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Ledricka Thierry

Brings the governing boards of charter schools under the financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics Code. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Amends penalties imposed for a convicted felon in possession of a firearm (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Nicholas Lorusso

Amends the composition of schedules for controlled dangerous substances (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Fred Mills

Provides relative to parcel fees in certain special districts. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Provides relative to school and district accountability in elementary and secondary education (EN NO IMPACT EX See Note)

Sponsor: Mickey Guillory

Permits, for purposes of certain skill or occupational training, use of a TOPS Opportunity, Performance, or Honors award at certain schools having a certificate of registration issued by the Bd. of Cosmetology and proprietary schools licensed by the Bd. of Regents (EN -$34,248 GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Wayne Waddell

Provides relative to hearings of pretrial motions filed by the defendant

Sponsor: Joseph Lopinto

Provides for the process by which the Board of Examiners of Nursing Facility Administrators may establish fees and costs

Sponsor: Richard Burford

Provides relative to various issues with the Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration

Sponsor: Gordon Dove

Provides relative to mutual insurance holding companies

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Corrects the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce's name in the Louisiana Revised Statutes. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell

Eliminates the division of adult and community education within the Dept. of Education and transfers the responsibility for adult education programs from BESE to LCTCS (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Cedric Richmond

Provides relative to the application of foreign laws

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Authorizes the collection of refundable deposits from tax sale participants prior to the commencement of the tax sale (REF NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Christopher Roy

Provides with respect to court reporters

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Provides relative to the prescription of estate transfer taxes

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Provides for the abolition of certain boards and commissions (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

Sponsor: M.J. Smiley

Provides for a Board of Regents program under which postsecondary institutions agree to achieve certain standards in exchange for authority to increase tuition and for exemption from certain limitations (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Creates the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana. (8/15/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Dalton Honore

Provides relative to fees paid for copying medical records

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Provides relative to intrafamily adoptions

Sponsor: Nancy Landry

Provides relative to charter schools

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Authorizes the lease of certain state property in Orleans Parish. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Rickey Hardy

Provides relative to BESE standards for approving alternative schools and alternative education programs for students suspended or expelled from public K-12 schools

Sponsor: Herbert Dixon

Provides that the position of deputy chief of police is in the unclassified service

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Authorizes BESE to exempt a school district from certain laws, rules, and regulations pursuant to a request and proposal for increasing quality of instruction and academic achievement from the school district (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Provides relative to the notification given to parents regarding school dress code policies

Sponsor: Nancy Landry

Provides with respect to the New Orleans International Airport Sales Tax District

Sponsor: Anthony Ligi

Provides for the delinquent renewal of a license issued by the State Board of Home Inspectors

Sponsor: Bernard LeBas

Provides relative to fisheries management by the Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries

Sponsor: Eddie Lambert

Provides for the collection of court costs and attorney fees relative to a suit regarding damage to a condominium

Sponsor: Nita Hutter

Provides with respect to bail bonds and judgments of bond forfeiture

Sponsor: M.J. Smiley

Exempts certain funds in existing qualified tuition programs from attachment, levy, garnishment or legal process. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Provides relative to the New Orleans Regional Business Park.(gov sig)

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Provides for certain information to be sent to the judicial administrator of the Supreme Court

Sponsor: Juan LaFonta

Re-creates the Dept. of Revenue

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Requires the departments of health and hospitals, social services, and education to delegate certain hearing and adjudication functions to the division of administrative law (RE SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

Sponsor: Anthony Ligi

Provides relative to options available to certain high school dropouts pursuant to court order. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Regulates the use of yo-yos and trigger devices on Lake Saint Joseph. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Allows garnishment of Louisiana public retirement or pension system, plan, or fund benefits of an elected official or public employee to pay fine or restitution, or any costs of incarceration, probation, or parole, imposed for a felony associated with his office. (7/1/10) (EN NO IMPACT APV)

Sponsor: D.A. Gautreaux

Provides relative to the siting of certain solid waste disposal facilities near the Acadiana Regional Airport. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Requires BESE to develop an early high school graduation policy. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Eric LaFleur

Provides for technical recodification of certain provisions of the La. Insurance Code relative to property insurance

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Provides for changes to the La. State Uniform Construction Code

Sponsor: James Fannin

Creates the Westminster Pine Park Crime Prevention and Neighborhood Improvement District

Sponsor: Stephen Carter

Provides relative to continuing education for school board members and designation of Distinguished School Board Member

Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair

Requires school guidance counselors to complete academic profiles for ninth grade students (EN +$150,000 GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Requires BESE to establish a uniform grading scale for use in public schools (EN NO IMPACT EX See Note)

Sponsor: Walker Hines

Authorizes DPSC to revoke "H" or "X" hazardous materials endorsements on a commercial driver's license for a person convicted or adjudicated for reckless handling on a second or subsequent violation. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Neil Riser

Provides relative to automobile insurance rates after a voluntary lapse in coverage occurs. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Provides relative to the authority of a local school board to deny admission or readmission to school of certain students (EN NO IMPACT EX See Note)

Sponsor: Michael Jackson

Provides for income assignment orders

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Exempts certain court reporters from certification requirements

Sponsor: Billy Chandler

Includes the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts and the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts in the MFP.

Sponsor: James Fannin

Creates the Lakeview Street Maintenance District in Orleans Parish. (7/1/10) (EN +$1,021,200 LF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Provides that certain rules adopted by the Board of Regents are subject to the Administrative Procedure Act. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Authorizes recovery of attorneys fees and costs under certain circumstances concerning non-residential contracts. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Conrad Appel

Provides relative to the sewerage and water board of New Orleans

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides for the number of members on the Iberville Parish School Board. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Requires the Board of Regents to broadcast on the Internet the audio and video of all board and committee meetings conducted in Baton Rouge and to archive the audio and video of such meetings

Sponsor: Kevin Pearson

Provides relative to the proper venue for a proceeding for modification of support

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Provides with respect to investments by political subdivisions. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Daniel Martiny

Prohibits a political subdivision from imposing a tax or fee on nonresidents at a different rate than residents. (8/15/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsor: Conrad Appel

Provides for diminution of sentence for good behavior. (10/15/10) (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Dan Morrish

Requires BESE to adopt guidelines for the use of seclusion and physical and mechanical restraint of students with exceptionalities

Sponsor: Herbert Dixon

Allows the Orleans Parish School Board to exclude certain costs from the amount of local funds that it would otherwise be required to transfer to the RSD. (8/15/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides for the membership of the La. State Law Institute

Sponsor: Rosalind Jones

Provides for the separation of community property

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Provides for the ancillary expenses of state government

Sponsor: James Fannin

Provides for a uniform expungement form and uniform order of expungement

Sponsor: Patricia Smith

Provides relative to privileged communications made to local code enforcement officers

Sponsor: Anthony Ligi

Provides relative to the powers and duties of the city of Bastrop and for penalties for the violation of city ordinances

Sponsor: Samuel Little

Provides an additional time for elections to be held by crime prevention and security districts for renewal of parcel fees. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell

Provides for contracts for fiscal intermediary services in processing claims of health care providers. (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Willie Mount

Provides relative to dental benefits for sheriffs and deputies of the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office (EN +$900 LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Gordon Dove

Authorizes public entities utilizing tax increment finance ("TIF") to enter into a joint venture or cooperative endeavor with one or more other public entities utilizing TIF to utilize all or a portion of the tax increments generated within their TIF areas in order to jointly finance or refinance one or more economic development projects located within their TIF areas. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Requires offshore oil rig personnel transporters to provide flotation devices equipped with personal locator beacons

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Authorizes school board members to obtain training or instruction at certain national conferences in meeting their annual training requirement. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Provides relative to day care centers administered by certain tax-exempt religious organizations

Sponsor: Patrick Cortez

Reduces the length of time DPS&C is required to retain certain records and provides relative to certain records related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Gary Smith

Provides relative to needs assessments for public printing

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Re-creates certain entities transferred to or placed within the office of the governor (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Provides relative to publication and parental notification of information relative to school system cohort graduation and dropout rates. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Karen Peterson

Provides relative to the Lakewood Crime Prevention and Improvement District

Sponsor: Nicholas Lorusso

Creates and provides for the Louisiana Centers of Excellence Financing Corporation and authorizes the issuance of bonds to finance the construction of centers of excellence. (2/3-CA7s9(F)) (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Provides relative to procedures for registration and voting for persons in the U.S. Service and persons residing outside of the U.S. (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jerome Richard

Provides relative to the Louisiana Binding Arbitration Law. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Conrad Appel

Provides relative to certain public printing requirements

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Transfers the La. Tax Commission to the division of administration and grants the commission certain authority regarding its management and operations (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

Sponsor: Harold Ritchie

Provides relative to management protocols to be followed by the Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries for certain finfish

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Creates the La. Shrimp Task Force within the Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides for the burden of proof to introduce evidence under the "forfeiture of wrongdoing" exception to hearsay. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell

Provides for special local option alcohol elections for a municipality (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Frank Howard

Relative to bicycles (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Provides relative to the notice of termination under the Private Works Act

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Provides relative to assistance in voting

Sponsor: Scott Simon

Prohibits certain increases in compensation for registrars of voters and certain employees of the registrar during certain time periods (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: John Schroder

Provides for conditions and prohibitions during withdrawal from health insurance markets in this state

Sponsor: Christopher Roy

Amends definition of "funds" with respect to the crime of money laundering

Sponsor: Mack White

Provides with respect to compensation for employees of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office (EN +$35,000 LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Provides for the continuous revision of delinquency proceedings (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides relative to workers' compensation and the transfer of indemnity payments by electronic funds transfer

Sponsor: Erich Ponti

Provides for a technical correction in the Vital Records Law. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Dan Claitor

Authorizes the expenditure of campaign funds by electronic fund transfer

Sponsor: Anthony Ligi

Authorizes the use of electronic signatures of offenders

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Prohibits the assignment of certain inmates at the J. Levy Dabadie Correctional Center

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Removes requirement in Orleans Parish that acts of sale or other acts transferring immovable property be filed with the assessor.(1/1/11) (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Creates the Madison Parish Economic and Industrial Development District. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Provides relative to summonses for contempt for nonpayment of child support orders or medical support orders

Sponsor: Lowell Hazel

Provides relative to medication therapy management

Sponsor: Fred Mills

Provides for the not-for-profit organizations or funds within such organizations which may give donations to certain public employees affected by certain hurricanes, the time period during which public employees may accept contributions, and the deadline by which organizations must report such donations to the Board of Ethics

Sponsor: Kevin Pearson

Authorizes the Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries to assign hull identification numbers to certain vessels manufactured in this state (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)

Sponsor: Taylor Barras

Expands the La. State Board of Medical Examiners' authority to assess and collect costs and fines (EN +$74,000 SG RV See Note)

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Changes the number of votes required to grant parole to certain offenders under specified conditions (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Ledricka Thierry

Provides relative to Sustainable Energy Financing Districts

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 2009-2010

Sponsor: James Fannin

Amends presentence investigation provisions to include disciplinary records during incarceration

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides for the portability of criminal background checks in certain cases involving positions with supervisory or disciplinary authority over children (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

Sponsor: Joseph Lopinto

Suspends laws providing for the Direct Service Worker Registry

Sponsor: Jerome Richard

Allows real estate appraisers to consider energy efficiency aspects when assigning value to certain property. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Urges and requests the Legislative Fiscal Office to report on new programs added to the general operating budget between FY 1996-1997 and FY 2009-2010

Sponsor: Stephen Carter

Provides for the payment of insurance premiums for retired sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the LaSalle Parish Sheriff's Office (EN -$37,352 LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Billy Chandler

Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of slaughtering establishments to ensure compliance with the "Federal Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act." (gov sig)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Revises the definition of "contraband" to include component hardware of telecommunications equipment

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides relative to reporting by public school employees of irregularities or improprieties in the administration of standardized tests

Sponsor: Thomas Carmody

Authorizes the use of administrative subpoenas when investigating sex offenses involving children through use of a computer (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Willie Mount

Provides for payment of group insurance for retired sheriffs and deputy sheriffs in certain parishes (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsor: Gary Smith

Provides with respect to the sunset provisions of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. (6/30/10)

Sponsor: Mack White

Urges and requests DOTD to study the impact of expanding the territorial jurisdiction of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

Sponsor: Henry Burns

Authorizes the Monroe school board to sell the Georgia Tucker school at public or private sale

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Authorizes the secretary of the Dept. of Revenue to waive surety bond requirements for terminal operator licensees under certain circumstances (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)

Sponsor: Sam Jones

Provides relative to the Department of Agriculture and Forestry and provides for technical changes. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Provides with respect to the sale of surplus property by school boards (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Thomas Carmody

Creates the "WWOZ Guardians of the Groove" special prestige license plate

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Provides relative to the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides technical changes for certain exceptions to gambling related crimes (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Thomas Carmody

Repeals the Southern Regional Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Management Assistance Compact. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Provides relative to facilities providing housing or temporary residence to individuals referred by judicial agencies. (8/15/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Dan Morrish

Authorizes participation in sequestration of carbon dioxide programs

Sponsor: John Anders

Provides for criminal penalties for attempted theft of certain amounts

Sponsor: Taylor Barras

Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Revenue to require electronic filing of returns and reports by professional athletic teams or professional athletes associated with administering the Sports Facility Assistance Fund. (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Provides relative to specified campuses designated as part of the La. Technical College and for certain transfers to Delgado Community College

Sponsor: Nita Hutter

Adds fine and restitution to aggravated flight from an officer

Sponsor: Rosalind Jones

Requires the fingerprinting of defendants in certain enumerated cases

Sponsor: Samuel Little

Provides relative to energy and conservation

Sponsor: John Edwards

Provides for a school choice pilot program for certain students with exceptionalities (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Provides for the creation of the Broadmoor Crime Prevention and Improvement District. (July 1, 2010)

Sponsor: Dan Claitor

Provides qualifications for the judges of the First and Second City Courts of the city of New Orleans. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Provides relative to the St. Landry Parish Economic and Industrial Development District. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Elbert Guillory

Provides relative to trusts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

Provides for a special environmental docket for the Municipal Court of New Orleans

Sponsor: Nicholas Lorusso

Commends Ryan O'Neill Poche' of Erath High School upon his selection as a representative of La. at the Hugh O'Brian World Leadership Congress

Sponsor: Simone Champagne

Provides relative to the collection and disposition of bonds, fines, fees, licenses, taxes. (8/15/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Daniel Martiny

Re-creates the Department of Education. (6/30/10)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Provides for a physician Medicaid upper payment limit methodology. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Fred Mills

Authorization for the La. Tax Commission to levy and collect certain fees (EN +$527,850 SD RV See Note)

Sponsor: Harold Ritchie

Provides for changes to terms of appointments to the La. Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board

Sponsor: M.J. Smiley

Provides for health insurer balance billing disclosure requirements. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Amends provisions relative to securing the presence of a material witness

Sponsor: Joseph Lopinto

Authorizes ordinances regulating backwashing of swimming pools into the street. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Provides procedures to intercept and withhold certain casino winnings for child support arrearages or overpayments owed to Department of Social Services. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Helena Moreno

Provides for license actions imposed against outpatient abortion facilities

Sponsor: Sherri Cheek

Urges and requests the Legislative Fiscal Office to report on new programs added to the general operating budget between FY 1996-1997 and FY 2009-2010

Sponsor: Stephen Carter

Commends Donald A. Songy upon his retirement as superintendent of the Ascension Parish Public School System

Sponsor: Eddie Lambert

Provides relative to the Lakeview Crime Prevention District. (7/1/10)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Recognizes Friday, June 18, 2010, as Kids' Day at the Capitol

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Prohibits health insurance issuers from unilaterally determining fees on pharmacy claims (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

Sponsor: Bernard LeBas

Changes the name of certain tourist commissions. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Provides relative to the governing board of Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 1 of Tangipahoa Parish

Sponsor: Stephen Pugh

Provides procedures for child in need of care proceedings (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Clarifies Board of Regents' powers, duties, and functions.

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Provides relative to the recordation of testimony during depositions

Sponsor: Patrick Connick

Provides relative to the power of an elected police chief in certain municipalities to appoint, promote, discipline, and discharge police personnel

Sponsor: Elton Aubert

Clarifies that to qualify as a juror a person not be under indictment for, nor convicted of a felony for which he has not been pardoned by the governor. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Creates the Park Forest East Crime Prevention and Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Provides relative to depositions

Sponsor: Patrick Connick

Requests BESE to study issues relative to dyslexia and related disorders

Sponsor: Gordon Dove

Provides relative to elections for parcel fee renewal for the Lakewood East Security and Neighborhood Improvement District. (7/1/10)

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Provides a limitation of liability for curators and undercurators

Sponsor: Thomas Willmott

Limits discontinuation or cancellation of health insurance coverage under certain circumstances

Sponsor: Christopher Roy

Provides for an exemption to licensure as a day care center for certain religious organizations. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Increases the amount of the contract which is required to be publicly advertised for bids on materials and supplies contracts of the sewerage and water board in the city of New Orleans. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Requests the House Committee on Commerce to study the allocation of gaming proceeds to various horse organizations

Sponsor: Joseph Harrison

Provides limitation of liability for LAICU and member institutions if confidential student information they submit to the Board of Regents is breached as the result of board actions. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Allows local political subdivisions to purchase or lease hybrid fuel or alternative fuel vehicles. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Nicholas Gautreaux

Repeals duplicative and outdated LCTCS reporting requirements. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Provides relative to the Terrebonne Economic Development Authority

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides for clarifying language relative to confession evidence in a criminal proceeding . (8/15/10)

Sponsor: David Heitmeier

Expresses the support of the legislature for the E. A. Conway Medical Center in Monroe to continue serving its current public purpose

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Requests BESE to study the admission and expulsion criteria in charter schools and the impact of that criteria on at-risk and special needs students.

Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell

Provides relative to mortgages

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and provide recommendations relative to the laws regarding spousal support.

Sponsor: Julie Quinn

Commends Dr. Robert Hebert on the occasion of his retirement as the president of McNeese State University.

Sponsor: Willie Mount

Adds Bayou Liberty to the natural and scenic rivers program

Sponsor: George Cromer

Memorialize Congress to pass the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and submit it to the states for ratification.

Sponsor: John LaBruzzo

Requests BESE to study and make recommendations relative to achieving a student to classroom teacher ratio of not more than twenty to one in the elementary grades.

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Provides for motor vehicle inspections in ozone nonattainment areas

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

Removes the requirement that the La. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation maintain separate accounts and records for the Coastal Plan and the FAIR Plan

Sponsor: Samuel Little

Provides relative to charter school funding (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Expresses condolences upon the death of Joan Marie Harris Smith of Marrero

Sponsor: Patrick Connick

Commends John "Buck" Stephenson for his efforts in a rescue at sea of an injured crewman overboard from the Ms Mia.

Sponsor: Dan Morrish

Express condolences upon the death of Joseph "June" Rubin.

Sponsor: Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb

Commends Governor Bobby Jindal for issuing Executive Order No. BJ 2008-8 regarding green government.

Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell

Establishes the La. Sustainable Local Food Policy Council (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Scott Simon

Adds the crimes of human trafficking and trafficking of children for sexual purposes to the list of sex offenses and crimes of violence (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Establishes statutory requirements to guide future Rapid Response Fund project agreements (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Wayne Waddell

Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to investigate, study, and develop a plan or strategy to modernize and improve the state developmental disability centers, focusing particularly on an assessment of the current operation and maintenance of the existing developmental disability centers.

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Recognizes the many contributions made by citizens of the Republic of Turkey and that it is the best interest of the state to promote relationships with the Turkish people and to create a Louisianian - Turkish Friendship Task Force.

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Adds additional members to the La. Housing Finance Agency and provides for budget review (EG1 NO IMPACT SG EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jim Tucker

Provides relative to the administration and management of the state's mineral resources

Sponsor: Joseph Harrison

Provides for additional purposes for which public postsecondary education management boards shall use revenues from oil, gas, and mineral leases

Sponsor: Rickey Nowlin

Exempts hunters who are under the direct supervision of certain people from having to complete a firearm and hunter education course. (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair

Provides relative to the mandatory reporting of abuse of adults

Sponsor: Wayne Waddell

Expresses the condolences of the Louisiana Senate upon the death of Louisiana Army National Guardsman Major Ronald Wayne Culver, Jr., in combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sponsor: Robert Adley

Requests BESE to study issues relative to dyslexia and related disorders.

Sponsor: Norby Chabert

Commends the city of Harahan on the celebration of its 90th birthday and recognizes July 24, 2010, as Harahan Day in Louisiana.

Sponsor: Daniel Martiny

Commends Mark B. Ward for his act of heroism and unselfish efforts in saving the life of his brother-in-law, Mark S. Swafford, Sr.

Sponsor: Gerald Long

Requests the formation of a community benefits agreement between the state of Louisiana, through the Department of Health and Hospitals and the Department of Economic Development, Louisiana State University, Xavier University, Tulane University, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Board of Trustees for the New Orleans University Medical Center, and the Greater New Orleans Biosciences Economic Development District.

Sponsor: Karen Peterson

Requests the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Homeland Security to receive proposals on stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil leak and on the cleanup of such leak, and to forward such proposals to the appropriate state agency for analysis.

Sponsor: Robert Adley

Commends Kelly Michelle Aucoin of South Lafourche High School upon being selected as an alternate representative of Louisiana at the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership World Congress.

Sponsor: Norby Chabert

Commends Haynesville High School football coach Alton "Red" Franklin upon his induction into the National High School Hall of Fame Class of 2010.

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Recognizes and honors fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters who served the state of Louisiana.

Sponsor: Sherri Cheek

Requests the governmental affairs committees to study public records, including access, redaction, electronic records and copies, and fees

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Requires DPS&C and the Board of Parole to participate in the offset program established within the Dept. of Revenue to collect past due probation or parole fees

Sponsor: James Fannin

Commends the Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation and the foundation's Executive Director, Dr. Ken Ward, for dedicated service to members of the Senate and citizens of Louisiana.

Sponsor: John Alario

Commends U.S. Army Specialist Jeffrey Argrave for his service to his country.

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Commends Tab Benoit for his dedication to restoring and preserving Louisiana's wetlands and upon being inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

Sponsor: Norby Chabert

Recognizes Tuesday, June 8, 2010, as "Red and White Day" at the Louisiana Legislature.

Sponsor: Karen Peterson

Provides relative to bond for deed contracts

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Provides for the certification of concealed handgun permit instructors

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Requests the Professional Firefighters Assoc. of La. to study issues related to making municipal fire civil service laws applicable to not-for-profit organizations that enter into cooperative endeavors with certain municipalities, parishes, and fire protection districts to provide fire protection services

Sponsor: Robert Billiot

Urges and requests the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board to ensure that there is not a reduction in the quality and nutritional value of the meals that are prepared for students by contracted outside food vendors

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Requests appointment of committee to notify the governor that legislature is ready to adjourn sine die.

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Commends Marlene Cox upon her selection as an alternate to represent Louisiana at the Hugh O'Brian World Leadership Congress.

Sponsor: Sherri Cheek

Requests the Senate Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs to study and make recommendations relative to issues related to exploring better ways to effectively deliver growth management techniques to stakeholders and to advance local, regional, and state policies in our state.

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Memorialize the United States Congress to support expansion and use of domestic natural gas and alternative energies, and urge agencies to operate vehicles using compressed natural gas.

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Requests appointment of committee to notify House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to adjourn sine die.

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Deletes the requirement that all witnesses to the execution of a death sentence shall be La. citizens

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Requests the United State Department of Commerce to establish a Foreign-Trade Zone in the Delta region.

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Declares August 14, 2010, as Keep the Spirit of '45 Day.

Sponsor: Robert Adley

Requests BESE to study the feasibility and advisability of providing a salary supplement to national board certified educational diagnosticians.

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Amends concealed handgun permit laws

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Commends World War II veterans of the U.S. Navy 2nd, 4th, and 7th Beach Battalions and the USS Karnes (APA 1745) participating in their annual reunion with their families and welcomes them during their visit to Baton Rouge.

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Commends Samuel Curtis Ingalls upon his selection as a representative of Louisiana at the Hugh O'Brien World Leadership Congress.

Sponsor: Jack Donahue

Provides with respect to grand jury selection (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Mack White

Relative to La. public retirement systems, urges and requests the House and Senate committees on retirement, the House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure, and the Senate committees on Judiciary A, B, or C, to study issues related to redesignating beneficiaries by retirees of such systems

Sponsor: Jean Doerge

Provides relative to the Horsemen's Workers' Compensation Program

Sponsor: John Anders

Increases the pool of employees of the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections who are eligible to be designated as special agents

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Creates the crime of interfering with a law enforcement investigation (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Samuel Little

Requires the Dept. of Economic Development to publish legal agreements, reports, and economic analyses, including project expenditures, regarding each Mega-Project Development Fund and Rapid Response Fund project (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Wayne Waddell

Repeals provision authorizing late approval of certain capital outlay budget requests. (8/15/10) (2/3 -CA7s11(C)) (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Commends Ryan O'Neill Poche' of Erath High School upon his selection as an alternate from Louisiana at the Hugh O'Brian World Leadership Congress.

Sponsor: Nicholas Gautreaux

Expresses support for the citizens of Nashville.

Sponsor: Dan Claitor

Memorializes Congress to oppose current efforts to expand the business lending authority of credit unions.

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Amends certain obligations of the sentencing court and DPS&C

Sponsor: Christopher Roy

Provides relative to deposits into and transfers out of the Budget Stabilization Fund. (See Act) (REF SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Provide for the filing of annual audited financial statements by certain public trust funds. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Requests the House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure and the Senate Committee on Judiciary A to study notice of liens under the Private Works Act

Sponsor: Gary Smith

Authorizes the attorney general to enter into certain contingency fee contracts. (8/15/10) (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Memorializes Congress to oppose the creation of a new consumer regulatory agency for FDIC insured institutions.

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Provides for the continuous revision of security devices

Sponsor: John Edwards

Requires insurers to include certain information relative to refund of certain assessments levied by the La. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation with policies sent to insureds

Sponsor: Neil Abramson

Designates June 18, 2010, as "League of Women Voters of St. Tammany Making Democracy Work Day" and commends the League of Women Voters of St. Tammany upon their ninetieth anniversary.

Sponsor: Jack Donahue

Requests reports for the three branches of state government to be submitted to the Department of State Civil Service concerning methods for and information about pay of unclassified employees

Sponsor: Michael Danahay

Commends Elmer Ray and Betty Conner on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.

Sponsor: Dan Morrish

Requests the House and Senate Committees on labor and industrial relations to study alternative ways of funding the Workers' Compensation Second Injury Fund

Sponsor: Erich Ponti

Requires health insurance issuers to directly pay noncontracted health care providers of emergency services for their charges as determined pursuant to the plan or policy of enrollee and insurer. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Eric LaFleur

Commends Pastor Enoch Adeboye, The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, and welcomes him to Baton Rouge and Louisiana.

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Provides with respect to the exemption of fees for certain expungement cases (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

Sponsor: John Edwards

Commends the Livonia High School baseball team upon winning the 2010 District 8-3A Co-Championship, Bi-District Championship, Regional Championship, Quarterfinal Championship, qualifying for the Class 3A state tournament, and being named a state semifinalist.

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Requests joint committee study of fiscal issues related to funding all levels of education in Fiscal Year 2011-2012.

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Commends Samuel Curtis Ingalls of Mandeville High School upon his selection as a representative of La. at the Hugh O'Brian World Leadership Congress

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Requests the House and Senate governmental affairs committees to study the composition of the membership of boards and commissions

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Expresses support for application of Operation REACH, Inc.- Central City Promise Plus for a U.S. Department of Education Promise Neighborhoods Program grant.

Sponsor: Karen Peterson

Requests the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code Council to adopt a rehabilitation subcode within the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code.

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Commends Micah Webber on being named the 2010 National Christian Forensics and Communications Association's Original Oratory champion.

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Provides for technical recodification of certain provisions of the La. Insurance Code relative to general insurance policy requirements

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Requests BESE to study the feasibility and advisability of providing a salary supplement to national board certified educational diagnosticians

Sponsor: Joseph Harrison

Deletes Carisoprodol from provision of law regarding legend drugs

Sponsor: Brett Geymann

Commends Tommy Davis on his years of service as a scout leader for the Boy Scouts of America.

Sponsor: William McPherson

Requests all relevant state and federal agencies to devote all available resources to stop the flow of oil at the former site of the Deepwater Horizon rig.

Sponsor: A.G. Crowe

Commends Marlene Cox for her selection to be a representative to the Hugh O'Brian World Leadership Congress

Sponsor: Wayne Waddell

Commends LSU Health Sciences Center School of Allied Health Professions for 40 years of exemplary health care education.

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Requires economic impact and performance information in reports to the legislature regarding Mega-Project Development Fund and Rapid Response Fund projects

Sponsor: Wayne Waddell

Provides for changes to the regulation of solicitation by funeral homes

Sponsor: Harold Ritchie

Amends the crime of domestic abuse battery

Sponsor: Samuel Little

Expresses condolences upon the death of Bishop Gerald Archie "G.A." Mangun of Alexandria

Sponsor: Billy Chandler

Provides with respect to the issuance of concealed handgun permits

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Commends Coast Guard Captain Edward Stanton of the Port of New Orleans for extraordinary leadership during a time of crisis

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Commends Jana Napoli and the YA/YA Alumni artists for their art work and activities as ambassadors of Louisiana culture to the people of Poland and Germany through presentation of the Floodwall exhibit.

Sponsor: Ann Duplessis

Authorizes the Department of Economic Development to grant up to $5 million of rebates per calendar year at the rate of 35% of an investor's investment in "Louisiana Entrepreneurial Business," not to exceed $1 million per year per business and $2 million total per business and requires the Louisiana Mega-Project Development Fund to be reduced each fiscal year by an amount which equals the rebates granted. (gov sig) (REF DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Dalton Honore

Creates the Quality Deer Management Program in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Commends Lee Hedges on his induction into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Memorializes Congress to support and invest in the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program.

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Provides with respect to simple rape (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Brett Geymann

Amends provisions regarding criminal background checks

Sponsor: Rogers Pope

Commends Micah Webber and Karen Wagley for their placement at the 2010 National Christian Forensics and Communications Association's Championship tournament.

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Commends Beauregard Memorial Hospital in DeRidder, Louisiana, for being the recipient of the Silver Level 2009 Louisiana Hospital Quality Award and also the 2010 Distinguished Partners in Education award.

Sponsor: John Smith

Requests British Petroleum to provide funding to the Louisiana Community and Technical College System in the amount of thirty-five million dollars to establish and maintain programs of instruction in the technology and procedure of oil spill cleanup.

Sponsor: A.G. Crowe

Requests the Board of Regents to study certain issues relative to yoga teacher training and the licensing of facilities that offer such training as proprietary schools

Sponsor: Major Thibaut

Commends Continental Structural Plastics on receiving the 2010 Platinum Award for Continued Excellence.

Sponsor: Jean Doerge

Expresses support for the relocation of the existing railroad lines in Plaquemines and Jefferson Parishes of the New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway Company and the Union Pacific Railroad in order to improve the public safety of citizens, reduce vehicular and rail interfaces, improve air quality and mitigate congestion, and enhance economic development in those parishes.

Sponsor: David Heitmeier

Requires BESE to assign letter grades to public schools and school districts reflective of their performance. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Mickey Guillory

Provides for the garnishment of income for child support (EN FF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Provides for changes to the qualifications for licensure by the La. State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors

Sponsor: Harold Ritchie

Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt rules and regulations relative to the physical abuse of public school teachers and employees by students

Sponsor: Herbert Dixon

Recognizes and honors those fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters who served the state of Louisiana.

Sponsor: Sherri Cheek

Designates Saturday, May 29, 2010 as Shady Grove High School Class of 1980 Day".

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Constitutional amendment to authorize limited redirection and transfer of funds supporting appropriations and allocations from the state general fund and dedicated funds in certain circumstances. (2/3 CA13s1(A)) (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Designates Sunday, June 20, 2010, as a Statewide Day of Prayer.

Sponsor: Joel Chaisson

Commends the Catholic of Pointe Coupee High School baseball team upon winning the 2010 District 5-1A Championship, the Pointe Coupee Parish Championship, and their outstanding accomplishments.

Sponsor: Major Thibaut

Provides relative to sex offender registration and notification provisions

Sponsor: Patrick Connick

Requires the Board of Ethics to make available the name of a complainant under certain circumstances (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Nita Hutter

Commends Peggy Wells on her installation as president of the Louisiana Federation of Business and Professional Women for 2010-2011.

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Disqualifies commercial driver's license holders from operating school buses after conviction of DWI offenses

Sponsor: Ledricka Thierry

Requires certain notification that driver of vehicle is to have an ignition interlock device

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Authorizes the delivery of certain scrap materials to scrap metal collection and recycling facilities

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Creates a special Senate committee to study and make recommendations with respect to public safety and corrections.

Sponsor: Elbert Guillory

Requests DOTD to 6-lane Florida Boulevard between downtown Baton Rouge and the town of Livingston and implement "reversible" lanes to accommodate peak traffic hours.

Sponsor: Dale Erdey

Requests the LSU Board of Supervisors to provide a written, detailed overview and time line for the closure of the Earl K. Long Medical Center.

Sponsor: Sharon Broome

Requests the Board of Regents to examine the effectiveness of the postsecondary education funding formula and provide for phased in implementation of significant changes, specifically as related to performance-based funding.

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Directs the Board of Regents to study and make recommendations regarding the provision of public postsecondary education in the New Orleans region.

Sponsor: Conrad Appel

Requests the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs to study and make recommendations relative to issues related to exploring better ways to effectively deliver growth management techniques to community stakeholders and to advance local, regional, and state policies in our state

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Requests the chairmen of the Senate Select Committee on Homeland Security and the House Select Committee on Homeland Security to receive proposals on stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil leak and on the cleanup of such leak, and to forward such proposals to the appropriate state agency for analysis.

Sponsor: Robert Adley

Requests school governing authorities to encourage students to first take standardized college admissions tests in the ninth grade

Sponsor: Rickey Hardy

Requests reports to specified legislative committees regarding the possibility of implementing a four-day work week consisting of four ten-hour days in a week

Sponsor: Patrick Connick

Directs the Dept. of Environmental Quality to investigate the use of dispersants

Sponsor: Fred Mills

Requests the Senate committees on revenue and fiscal affairs and health and welfare to jointly study the effects of local sales tax on prescription drugs administered in an outpatient setting.

Sponsor: Willie Mount

Provides with respect to the adoption of certain resolutions

Sponsor: Noble Ellington

(Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes an extension of the homestead exemption and special assessment level for property damaged or destroyed by a disaster under certain circumstances (RR1 INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Charmaine Marchand Stiaes

Requests legislative sergeants at arms to require persons entering the capitol to be subject to search for weapons, with very limited exceptions

Sponsor: Nickie Monica

Requires legislative committee approval of DHH contracts of a term of more than three years in duration for the privatization of any portion of the activities which were performed by certain existing facilities or programs during FY 2009-2010 and directs DHH to include certain requirements and evaluation factors in RFPs for contracts.

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Urge and request the governor, through the commissioner of administration, in preparing and submitting the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 general appropriation bill to exclude any expenditures which are not "for the ordinary operating expenses of government, public charities, pensions, and the public debt or interest thereon"

Sponsor: Stephen Carter

Changes restrictions on statewide concealed handgun permits and adds an exception from criminal acts. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Francis Thompson

Provides that the name of the requesting member of an amendment to the general appropriation bill or the capital outlay bill be public

Sponsor: John Schroder

Requests the House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs to review the issue of the redistricting of courts particularly as it relates to the domicile and residency requirements of judges and judicial candidates

Sponsor: Rickey Hardy

To direct the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations on the revision of law regarding the transfer of a juvenile from the juvenile justice system to the adult criminal justice system.

Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell

Suspends in part R.S. 17:3141.2(5), relative to the definition of a proprietary school as it is applicable to yoga teacher training, until 60 days after final adjournment of the 2011 R.S.

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Revises the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Michael Walsworth

Requests the House Executive Committee to consider allowing open access to the wireless Internet capabilities in House-controlled areas of the State Capitol (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Provides for the report of committee on a legislative instrument

Sponsor: Richard Gallot

Provides that certain traffic violations be heard in certain courts (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jerry Gisclair

Allows a public servant to accept gifts valued at fifteen dollars or less, up to an aggregate value of forty-five dollars from any one person in a calendar year

Sponsor: Nita Hutter

Requests BESE to study feasibility of consolidating administration and evaluation of the LA4 and 8(g) prekindergarten programs, to ensure that school districts receive necessary support, and to adopt identical standards for programs

Sponsor: Austin Badon

Requires legislative approval of certain contracts and action plans related to recovery from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike (RE NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Jim Tucker

Requires the state superintendent of education to possess certain qualifications at the time of appointment by BESE

Sponsor: Patricia Smith

Provides for the distribution of unspent federal funds made available for recovery efforts from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (EG SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jim Tucker

Provides relative to the employment experience necessary for certain principals to be exempt from certain testing requirements relative to certification

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Regarding the Lafayette Parish school system, provides relative to the transportation of students on field trips (EG -$355,314 LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Rickey Hardy

Provides for the scope of argument and charges by the court in certain criminal proceedings. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: David Heitmeier

Urges and requests the La. State Law Institute to study all aspects of liability relating to road hazards and make specific recommendations for limiting liability of the state

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

Provides the option for persons licensed or regulated by the state to be insured under a policy of group insurance

Sponsor: John LaBruzzo

Requests the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee to study the re-creation of the Louisiana Environmental Scorecard program and to present their findings to the Louisiana Legislature prior to the 2011 Regular Session.

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Provides with respect to DOTD stationary scale and mobile police transfer of authority. (7/1/10)

Sponsor: Jack Montoucet

Suspends, from Aug. 10, 2010, through Aug. 13, 2010, the state excise tax on cigars and smoking tobacco given away by a dealer (EN -$45,000 GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: Joel Robideaux

Requires certain information in the budget requests and the executive budget. (7/1/10) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Lydia Jackson

Urges and requests Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, to reconsider the directive that he issued which instituted six-month moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and to possibly alter that directive to minimize the negative economic impact of such directive on the already damaged economies of the state of Louisiana and the other oil and gas producing states along the Gulf of Mexico.

Sponsor: Helena Moreno

Urges and requests the state of Arkansas to comply with the Red River Compact

Sponsor: Samuel Little

Constitutional amendment to provide that a person convicted of a felony under the laws of another state or of the United States or of a foreign government or country and who has not been pardoned cannot be permitted to qualify as a candidate for elective public office. (2/3-CA13s1(A))

Sponsor: Nicholas Gautreaux

Directs DEQ and DOTD to study the feasibility of using compressed natural gas buses

Sponsor: James Fannin

Provides relative to teachers transferring to a charter school from a local school system (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Patricia Smith

Provides relative to the payment and collection of Medicaid provider fees on prescription drugs (RE SG RV See Note)

Sponsor: Bernard LeBas

Study the appropriate manner in which to provide for regular and dependable permanent benefit increases for retirees of the state retirement systems, designed to preserve purchasing power while uncoupling these benefit increases from investment returns.

Sponsor: Kevin Pearson

Authorizes the governing authority of the town of Farmerville to name the Farmerville Recreation Center in honor of Willie Davis, Jr.

Sponsor: Hollis Downs

Provides relative to the due date of corporation income tax returns and payments for nonprofit organizations. (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)

Sponsor: B.L. Shaw

Provides for an automobile allowance for the assessor in Washington Parish. (8/15/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Ben Nevers

Creates the Milneburg Neighborhood Improvement District in Orleans Parish

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Makes texting while driving by all drivers and using a cell phone while driving by those seventeen and under a primary offense for which a driver may be stopped. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: D.A. Gautreaux

Provide for the retention of original records of domestic insurers. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Requests DOTD to study the feasibility of a West Bank Turnpike. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Provides relative to meetings of the board of aldermen in a Lawrason Act municipality

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Authorizes the early release of non-risk geriatric inmates. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Dan Claitor

Requests the Department of Education to study special education needs in the Recovery School District with an emphasis on charter schools.

Sponsor: Jean-Paul Morrell

Provides for the transfer of state property to the city of Eunice

Sponsor: Mickey Guillory

Requires a levee report to indicate elevation based on NAVD of 1988

Sponsor: Robert Billiot

Provides for the designation of the Myths and Legends Byway

Sponsor: Dorothy Hill

Provides for consistency in penalties for wildlife or fisheries violations

Sponsor: Gordon Dove

Re-creates the Department of State (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Richard Gallot

Provides for minimum collision coverage amounts of uninsured motorist insurance. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Troy Hebert

Establishes a volunteer license as a category of medical licensure issued by the La. State Board of Medical Examiners

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to collect information relative to the use by local school boards of corporal punishment

Sponsor: Thomas Carmody

Allows off-road vehicles to be operated on state college and university streets

Sponsor: Stephen Pugh

Provides for changes to definitions regarding agency relations in real estate transactions

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Re-creates the Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Sponsor: John Edwards

Requests the office of the legislative auditor to conduct a performance audit on the postsecondary education system (EG1 NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Anthony Ligi

Authorizes DOTD to perform repairs to bridges and roadways in wildlife management areas (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Gordon Dove

Requests that the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission consider allowing for the use of cast nets at night with no creel limits for the commercial taking of shrimp during this time of fishing disaster resultant from the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Urges BP to assist in the establishment of the "Back to the Dock" fisherman's bonus program

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides technical corrections to child support provisions

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Limits liability during funeral processions

Sponsor: Fred Mills

Provides relative to the Natchitoches Parish Law Library Commission

Sponsor: Rickey Nowlin

Authorizes the secretary of the Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries to develop certification standards for La. wild fish and seafood including wild-caught shrimp

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Requires DHH to notify oyster harvesters and dealers of a possible state exemption from the National Shellfish Sanitation program's Vibrio management plan

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides relative to ex officio notaries within the office of mayor

Sponsor: Bobby Badon

Exempts certain vehicles from motor vehicle inspection requirements (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

Sponsor: Henry Burns

Provides for traffic regulation at intersection when traffic control signal is inoperative

Sponsor: Robert Billiot

Provides relative to military honor license plates to be allowed on motorcycles. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Creates the Seabrook Neighborhood Improvement and Security District in Orleans Parish (EN +$281,400 LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Extends the time within which an oyster lease renewal must be recorded

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Requires that the Dept. of Health and Hospitals continue disability waiver benefits for family of military on active duty who have temporarily relocated to another state due to military assignment (EG NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Richard Burford

Provides relative to parking violations

Sponsor: Clifton Richardson

Creates the crime of the production, manufacture, distribution, or possession of a fraudulent postsecondary education degree. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Walker Hines

Provides for technical revision of parole statutes

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides relative to fines for cut flower dealer permit violations.

Sponsor: Dan Claitor

Expresses condolences upon the deaths of Kay Roeder, Bruce Roeder, and Debbie Roeder of Luling

Sponsor: Gary Smith

Provides for the use of affidavits or other written evidence submitted by facsimile or electronic means in probable cause determinations

Sponsor: Mack White

Provides relative to the acceptance of the donation of an immovable

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Provides relative to funding for a La. wild-caught seafood certification program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Provides relative to the Lakeview Crime Prevention District

Sponsor: Nicholas Lorusso

Requires the commissioner of administration to disclose certain information concerning state contracts via the Internet (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Provides relative to child support programs

Sponsor: Robert Johnson

Requests the House Committee on Appropriations to study the use of statutory dedications as part of the state budget

Sponsor: Rosalind Jones

Provides for Dept. of Environmental Quality revolving loan programs (EN NO IMPACT SD EX See Note)

Sponsor: James Fannin

Amends time limitations for instituting prosecution for the crime of exploitation of the infirmed

Sponsor: Fred Mills

Provides for identification of certain saltwater finfish

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Creates an individual income tax return checkoff for donations to the La. Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Authorizes courts to order parents to perform community service

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Extends until Jan. 1, 2012, the facility need review approval for licensed intermediate care facilities that are located in certain areas

Sponsor: Thomas Willmott

Relative to La. School Employees' Retirement System (LSERS), makes changes to provisions relating to employee contributions, benefit calculation, and retirement eligibility (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)

Sponsor: Kevin Pearson

Provides with respect to liability for prescribed burnings

Sponsor: Christopher Roy

Provides for drinking water intakes

Sponsor: Frank Howard

Creates the Southern University Planning District in East Baton Rouge Parish

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Extends the moratorium on licensure of additional methadone maintenance programs, provides for exceptions to the moratorium, and creates a methadone maintenance program needs assessment task force

Sponsor: Robert Johnson

Requests the House Committee on Health and Welfare to study potential reforms to this state's system of child and adolescent psychiatric care

Sponsor: Thomas Carmody

Provides for certain restrictions on the taking of oysters

Sponsor: Ernest Wooton

Provides for changes to the La. Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board

Sponsor: Rickey Nowlin

Commends Mark Carrier from Church Point who will be inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame on June 24, 2010.

Sponsor: Nicholas Gautreaux

Provides relative to the delegation of certain duties by a trustee

Sponsor: Timothy Burns

Urges and requests the presence of dredging boats for continuous operations

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Requests state departments, the division of administration, and Board of Regents to submit reports to the Dept. of State Civil Service concerning methods used and information about pay increases for unclassified employees

Sponsor: Michael Danahay

Increases the jurisdictional amount in dispute in the City Court of Slidell for eviction proceedings

Sponsor: Kevin Pearson

Provides with respect to the Germantown Colony Museum

Sponsor: Jean Doerge

Requests Senate Committee on Judiciary A and House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure to meet and function as a joint committee to study heirship property and rights of a spouse to receive title to certain immovable property upon death of the other spouse.

Sponsor: Edwin Murray

Provides for the right to install solar energy devices

Sponsor: Franklin Foil

Repeals the sunset date for the use of devices to prevent predation on oyster leases

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Authorizes the transfer of certain property in Vernon Parish from DOTD (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: James Armes

Amends the earning rate for diminution of sentence and length of sentence which must be served before being eligible for parole (RE DECREASE GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Patricia Smith

Requests the La. Department of Civil Service and legislative committees to study the feasibility of providing additional funding for certain civil service tests in the city of New Orleans

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Recognizes June 14, 2010, as National Flag Day and June 14-20, 2010, as National Flag Week and commends La. citizens for their military service

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Commends the LSU-Eunice baseball team upon winning the 2010 National Junior College Athletic Assoc. Division II World Series

Sponsor: Mickey Guillory

Urges and requests the La. Office of Student Financial Assistance to study the feasibility of requiring repayment of TOPS by a student for any particular semester during the first two award years if the student does not make academic progress or fails to maintain full-time standing

Sponsor: Joseph Harrison

Authorizes certain transactions between a hospital service district and a board member and legal entities in which a board member owns an interest

Sponsor: Jonathan Perry

Directs the La. State Law Institute to study the effects of certain child custody and visitation orders

Sponsor: Cameron Henry

Memorializes congress to maintain a cap of ten percent on the amount of ethanol contained in gasoline

Sponsor: Nickie Monica

Urge and requests DHH to create a task force which shall study funding options for services to persons with disabilities and the elderly and to present recommendations to certain legislative committees

Sponsor: Scott Simon

Urges and requests the state commissioner of insurance to investigate who will be responsible for property damage resulting from the oil spill

Sponsor: Juan LaFonta

Requests BESE to collect certain information relative to the use by local school boards of corporal punishment

Sponsor: Barbara Norton

Urges and requests the attorney general to file a temporary restraining order against British Petroleum

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Urges and requests British Petroleum (BP) to endorse and agree to fund implementation of the Louisiana Seafood Safety Response and Quality Certification Plan

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Requests the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of La. to include justice of the peace courts in its study of the judiciary following the 2010 federal decennial census

Sponsor: Nicholas Lorusso

Requests the La. State Law Institute to study the laws regarding intrafamily adoptions and make recommendations

Sponsor: Nancy Landry

Urges and requests the House and Senate select committees on homeland security to study and make recommendations regarding air freight security

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Directs the Dept. of Social Services to assess efforts to date in La. to promote healthy food choices among recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Directs the development of a plan to support state employees who are terminated due to implementation of budget-reduction measures in preparation for reentry to the private sector workforce. (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Karen Peterson

Permits authorized agencies to perform criminal background checks of job applicants on behalf of employers. (8/15/10) (OR DECREASE SD RV See Note)

Sponsor: Sherri Cheek

Requires all individuals registering to run for local/state office submit proof to the local election official that a current state income tax return has been filed. (EG1 NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: David Heitmeier

Provides for the option of a 10-year DROP for members of the Firefighters' Pension and Relief Fund in the city of New Orleans (NOFF) (EG +$800,000 FC LF EX)

Sponsor: Jeffery Arnold

Requires that the appointees to the management board for the proposed academic medical center in New Orleans be confirmed by the Senate and requires financial disclosure. (gov sig) (RE NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Jared Brossett

Recognizes La. Irish Week in March in celebration of the state's rich Irish heritage

Sponsor: Hunter Greene

Requests the attorney general to review and report to the legislative governmental affairs committees and requests the governmental affairs committees to study and make recommendations all relative to lobbying by public servants and the use of public funds for such purposes

Sponsor: John Edwards

Directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to study finality and accuracy of criminal convictions

Sponsor: Cedric Richmond

Claims state sovereignty for La. under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and demands that the federal government cease promulgating unconstitutional mandates

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Provides with respect to stored motor vehicles

Sponsor: Cameron Henry

Authorizes the transfer and acceptance of certain properties by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. (gov sig)

Sponsor: Robert Adley

Commends Sarah B. Crawford upon her 100th birthday

Sponsor: Charles Chaney

Require that an impact report accompany any legislative instrument which creates an additional financial burden on a hospital. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Sherri Cheek

Commends Sister M. Angela Merici Luis, SSF, Sister Lucille Stelly, SSF, Sister Maria Conclia Saizan, SSF, Sister Theresa Wiltz, SSF, Sister M. Laurita Oliver, SSF, and Sister Gloria Lewis, SSF, on their 60 years with the Sisters of the Holy Family

Sponsor: Cedric Richmond

Provides with respect to the Huey P. Long Medical Center

Sponsor: Billy Chandler

Commends Sister M. Camillus Durald, SSF, on her 75 years with the Sisters of the Holy Family

Sponsor: Cedric Richmond

Recognizes June 14, 2010, as National Flag Day and June 14-20, 2010, as National Flag Week and commends La. citizens for their military service

Sponsor: Regina Barrow

Commends the Terrebonne High School Girls Class 5A Soccer Team in honor of their winning the District 8-I Championship

Sponsor: Damon Baldone

Provides relative to the dissolution of electric cooperatives

Sponsor: Rickey Nowlin

Commends and recognizes Sister M. Racheal Williams, SSF, Sister M. Clara Mae Jackson, SSF, Sister M. Clare Thomas, SSF, and Sister Patricia Hardy, SSF, on their 50 years of service with the Sisters of the Holy Family

Sponsor: Cedric Richmond

Authorizes exemplary damages for certain activities. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Provides for a five-year final average compensation period. (1/1/11) (EG -$86,700,000 APV)

Sponsor: D.A. Gautreaux

Requests the Board of Regents, Dept. of Revenue, and La. Workforce Commission to work cooperatively relative to the reporting and sharing of certain data

Sponsor: Joseph Harrison

Provides for a change of beneficiary under certain circumstances. (7/1/10) (EG SEE ACT NOTE APV)

Sponsor: A.G. Crowe

Memorializes congress to direct available federal funding for the purpose of enhancing the monetary and workforce value at the General Motors/Motors Liquidation Assembly Facility

Sponsor: Roy Burrell

Provides relative to the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS) and allows for a change in beneficiary for purposes of joint and survivor annuities.(7/1/10) (EG NO IMPACT APV)

Sponsor: Conrad Appel

Applies to congress to call a convention pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose an amendment regarding a limitation on the authority of congress to pass legislation pursuant to the commerce clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Applies to congress to call a convention pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose an amendment regarding a requirement for a supermajority vote to levy a new tax, increase an existing tax, or repeal an existing tax exemption (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Applies to congress to call a convention pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose an amendment regarding a requirement to reduce the federal debt through annual appropriations

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Commends Dr. Robert Hebert upon his retirement as president of McNeese State University

Sponsor: Charles Kleckley

Commends the La. Occupational Therapy Association for its achievements and to designate June 9, 2010, as La. Occupational Therapy Association Day at the legislature

Sponsor: Kay Katz

Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to make changes to the Minimum Foundation Program formula beginning with the formula adopted for the 2010-2011 school year

Sponsor: Patrick Williams

Recognizes Wednesday, June 9, 2010, as Allen Chapel AME Church Day at the state capitol

Sponsor: Jerome Richard

Creates the Region Four State Hospital Transitioning Task Force to ensure continuing access by low-income residents to health care services and to optimize capacity of nonstate community hospitals

Sponsor: Ledricka Thierry

Urges and requests the Dept. of Economic Development to study the economic impact of the legislature authorizing a tax credit for certain barge line, towing, and water transportation companies

Sponsor: Cameron Henry

Recognizes Tuesday, June 8, 2010, as Red and White Day at the Louisiana Legislature

Sponsor: Cedric Richmond

Provides for the definition of a "rural hospital". (8/15/10) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsor: A.G. Crowe

Approves the FY 2010-2011 annual state integrated coastal protection plan

Sponsor: Gordon Dove

Urges and requests all cable and satellite television providers to provide access to all three La. Public Broadcasting channels

Sponsor: Mickey Guillory

Requests the House Executive Committee to direct House Legislative Services staff to study population range provisions and provisions based on the number of congressional districts in the state in the La. Constitution and in the Revised Statutes

Sponsor: Walt Leger

Applies to congress to call a convention pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose an amendment regarding an overall spending limitation on the federal budget (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsor: Frank Hoffmann

Provides for a change in beneficiary under certain circumstances. (7/1/10) (RE +$3,760 FC SG)

Sponsor: Dan Morrish

Requests BESE to study the rate of suspensions and expulsions in La. and to submit a written report of findings and recommendations to the House and Senate education committees prior to the 2011 R.S.

Sponsor: Rickey Hardy

Urges and requests the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the president of the U.S. to expedite permitting of the artificial barrier island plan

Sponsor: Patrick Connick

Requests the legislative auditor to investigate the uses of TANF funding in the Dept. of Social Services

Sponsor: Patricia Smith

Provides for the use of surplus monies in the witness fee fund for the mayor's court of the city of Kenner (EN +$80,000 LF EX See Note)

Sponsor: Anthony Ligi

Provides for the repeal of miscellaneous provisions on inheritance taxes.

Sponsor: Robert Marionneaux

Amends law to limit the prohibition on driving in the left lane to "non-urban" multilane highways. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Dan Claitor

Provides for the relocation of the residence of a child. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: Julie Quinn

Requires certain notification regarding donation receptacles of commercial businesses. (8/15/10)

Sponsor: David Heitmeier

Provides for an automobile allowance for the clerk of the district court in St. Tammany Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, and Washington Parish. (8/15/10)