NOTE: §81.1 eff. until July 1, 2027. See Acts 2025, No. 374.

§81.1. Cost of publication

            The Official Journal of the State shall include a statement of the cost charged to the state agency for publication with any notice, advertisement, proclamation, or other information that it publishes for a state agency pursuant to a legal requirement that the information be published. The official journal shall not charge the agency for printing this statement of cost.

NOTE: §81.1 as amended and redesignated from R.S. 49:1301 by Acts 2025, No. 374, eff. July 1, 2027.

§81.1. Commissioner of administration; duties; sunset review of boards and commissions

            A. The commissioner of administration shall post the information designated in R.S. 43:82 on the Official Journal of the State.

            B.(1) If the commissioner of administration determines that a board or commission has failed to submit the information required pursuant to R.S. 43:84 in the manner required by this Chapter, the commissioner shall send the board or commission a notice of noncompliance by certified mail, return receipt requested.

            (2)(a)(i) If the board or commission fails to submit the information required pursuant to R.S. 43:84 in the manner required by this Chapter within the response period, the commissioner shall send notice detailing the failure to comply to the board or commission and to the chief administrative officer of the department of which the board or commission is a part, if applicable.

            (ii) The commissioner shall also send notice detailing the failure to comply to the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs, the House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs, and the oversight committees for the board or commission.

            (b)(i) Each oversight committee that receives a notice pursuant to Item (a)(ii) of this Paragraph may within sixty days of receiving the notice evaluate the board or commission and determine whether the board or commission should be continued, modified, or terminated. The committee may direct the board or commission to begin to terminate its operations and to prepare for the orderly transfer or termination of its powers, duties, responsibilities, and functions, as appropriate.

            (ii) No later than thirty days prior to the beginning of a regular session, each oversight committee that received a notice pursuant to Item (a)(ii) of this Paragraph during the year prior to the year in which the session is to be held may submit a report to the legislature and the governor. The report shall contain a summary of all action taken by the committee with respect to each such notice. The report shall also contain the committee's determination as to whether each board or commission that was the subject of such a notice should be continued, modified, or terminated and any legislation concerning the board or commission that the committee will propose to the legislature.

            (c)(i) For purposes of this Paragraph, "response period" means the period of time beginning with the day the notice of noncompliance sent pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this Subsection is received by the board or commission and ending ninety days later.

            (ii) For purposes of this Paragraph, "oversight committees" means the standing committees of the two houses of the legislature which have usual jurisdiction over the affairs of the board or commission.

            C. The provisions of Subsection B of this Section shall not apply to any board which is responsible for the administration of any statewide retirement fund held in trust for the benefit of its participants and which retirement fund is not the direct financial responsibility of the state.

            Acts 2009, No. 12, §1, eff. March 1, 2010; Acts 2013, No. 184, §16; Acts 2025, No. 374, §§2, 3, 4(A), eff. July 1, 2027; Redesignated from R.S. 49:1301.

NOTE: See Acts 2009, No. 12, §2.