Legislative Day History Thursday February 16th, 2006 Chamber: Senate

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1 1 of 9 SB1 SB2 SB3 Nevers UNEMPLOYMENT COMP Provides for reimbursement of unemployment compensation benefits charged to state and local governments and eligible nonprofit organizations during a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency. (gov sig) Theunissen SCHOOLS Delays from 2006 to 2007 the election of school board members in certain parishes and reduces from four years to three years the terms of those elected in (gov sig) Fields COURTS Extends the deadline for letting public bids for construction of a new facility to house the Nineteenth Judicial District Court. (gov sig) SB4 Gautreaux, B. Creates and provides for the Coastal Louisiana Levee Consortium. (gov sig) SB5 Gautreaux, N. GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS Provides for changes to the state uniform construction code. (gov sig) SB8 SB9 SB14 SB22 SB23 SB24 Boasso FLOODS/FLOODING Reorganizes the governance and structure of certain levee districts by creating and providing for a regional flood protection authority in southeast Louisiana. (gov sig) - Received from the House with amendments. Boasso FLOODS/FLOODING Constitutional amendment to provide for the establishment of regional flood protection authorities. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) - Received from the House with amendments. Cain PROPERTY INSURANCE Prohibits certain activities of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. (gov sig) - Notice House conferees appointed. Shepherd VOTERS/VOTING Requires availability of early voting at the office of the registrar in any parish with a population of 104,000 for eligible voters in a municipal election conducted pursuant to an approved emergency plan. (gov sig) - Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in, 38 yeas and 0 nays. Motion to reconsider Malone TAX/TAXATION Authorizes the Department of Revenue to grant a credit against severance tax for the one-time payment of such tax required of oil and gas severers by Act 446 of the 2005 RS. (7/1/06) - Received from the House without amendments. Hines LOCAL OFFICIALS Provides for one assessor for Orleans Parish. (2/3 - CA13s1(A))

2 - Received from the House without amendments. 2 of 9 SB31 SB32 SB50 SB57 SCR12 SCR20 SCR22 Schedler BANKS/BANKING Revises provisions requiring certain insurance settlement payments on residential property damage claims to be placed in interest-bearing accounts. (gov sig) Mount MUNICIPALITIES Provides alternate procedure for amending a home rule charter. (gov sig) Jones VOTERS/VOTING Applies certain absentee voting provisions for U.S. servicemen or persons residing outside the U.S. to persons temporarily displaced by the recent common disaster and state of emergency. (gov sig) - Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in, 38 yeas and 0 nays. Motion to reconsider Murray LOCAL AGENCIES Increases the number of members of the board of commissioners of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and provides for their selection. (gov sig) - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call Shepherd SCHOOLS Requests Jefferson Parish School Board to provide for transportation of all students who attend public schools. Mount PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT Requests state police to develop a contra-flow plan for evacuating citizens of Southwest Louisiana to include I-10 and U.S. Highways 165 and Received from the House without amendments. Jones CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES Requests the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to create a program to use non-violent inmates for the recovery and restoration of Louisiana. - Received from the House without amendments. SCR23 Gautreaux, N. Expresses sincere condolences upon the death of Warren L."Rusty" Brown, Jr. - Read by title, adopted by the vote of 39 yeas SCR24 Hollis Commends Tom Benson and the New Orleans Saints and Paul Tagliabue and the National Football League for their commitment to the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. - Rules suspended; introduced in the Senate. Read by title. Rules suspended; adopted by the vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays and ordered to the House. SCR25 Jackson, L. CONGRESS Memorializes Congress to provide funding for Louisiana's indigent defense system. - Rules suspended; introduced in the Senate, read first time by title. SR17 Shepherd ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH To direct the secretary of DEQ to appear before the Senate Environmental Quality Committee at their

3 first meeting of the 2006 Regular Session to provide information as to why the Gentilly Landfill should remain open. - Read by title, adopted. 3 of 9 SR18 SR19 Nevers WATER QUALITY Requests the Department of Natural Resources to study the conservation of aquifer water and the appropriate utilization of surface water. - Introduced in the Senate, read first time by title. Fields Expresses condolences upon the death of Harry Leon Pitts, Sr. SR20 Romero, C. Expresses condolences upon the death of Thomas M. DeRouen. SR21 Fontenot Commends Russell Starns for being named Central's first Man of the Year. SR22 Jackson, L. Commends the nine top African American army generals who graduated from Southern University. SR23 HB1 HB2 HB3 HB4 Shepherd Commends Mayor Herbert Gears and city of Irving, Texas for assistance provided to the citizens of south Louisiana and New Orleans displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Burrell PROPERTY/ABANDONED Changes period of time from one hundred twenty days to sixty days for owners to contest the acquisition of abandoned property which was adjudicated to political subdivisions more than five years previously (Item #2) - Read by title and finally passed, 33 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to Pinac INSURANCE/PROPERTY Authorizes the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation to seek and accept federal Community Development Block Grant monies to pay bonds and obligations caused by hurricanes in 2005 (Item #35) - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 35 Alario REVENUE SHARING Provides relative to the FY distribution of revenue sharing allocations in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard parishes (Item #40) - Read by title and finally passed, 37 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to LaFonta INSURANCE/HOMEOWNERS Requires that settlement payments on claims arising under homeowners' insurance policies be placed in interest-earning escrow accounts (Item #17)

4 - Read by title and finally passed as amended 39 yeas and 0 nays; title read and adopted and bill ordered to 4 of 9 HB11 HB17 HB18 HB21 HB25 HB27 HB28 HB29 HB40 Schneider (Constitutional Amendment) Removes requirement that the board of commissioners of a levee district be appointed or elected from among residents of such district (Item #1) - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call as amended. LaBruzzo INSURANCE CLAIMS Prohibits the automatic exclusion of certain coverages under a homeowner's policy for damages due to a declared disaster (Item # 5) - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 39 Hammett TAX/AD VALOREM-EXEMPTION Changes the effectiveness provision in Act No. 30 of the 2005 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature (Item #22) - Read by title and finally passed, 38 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to Hammett TAX/INCOME TAX Authorizes certain casualty loss deductions for 2004 tax year (Item #26) - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 39 Tucker /BDS & DISTRICTS Consolidates certain levee boards into the Barataria Basin Flood Authority (Item #1) - Rules suspended, reported with amendments. Rules suspended, committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments, read by title and passed to a third reading. Lancaster TAX/AD VALOREM-EXEMPTION Changes the election date from April 29, 2006, to September 30, 2006, for the submission of the proposed constitutional amendment contained in Act No. 70 of the 2005 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature (Item #22) - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 38 Lancaster ELECTIONS/DATES Repeals provisions for a special statewide election on April 29, 2006 (Item #18) - Read by title and finally passed, 38 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to Lancaster FUNDS/FUNDING Changes the election date from April 29, 2006, to September 30, 2006, for the submission of the proposed constitutional amendment contained in Act No. 69 of the 2005 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature (Item #21) - Read by title and finally passed, 37 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to Richmond PROPERTY Provides relative to acquisitive prescription of blighted property (Item #2)

5 - Read by title and finally passed, 38 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to 5 of 9 HB44 HB46 HB47 HB49 HB52 HB59 HB61 HB70 Burns Consolidates certain levee districts into the Southeast Louisiana Levee District (Item #1) - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call as amended. Arnold ASSESSORS/PROPERTY ASSMT Limits certain assessment procedures for property damaged by disaster or emergency declared by the storm (Item #16) - Called from the calendar. - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 37 Triche /BDS & DISTRICTS Provides for the consolidation of certain levee districts operating in Lafourche Parish (Item #1) - Read by title and finally passed as amended 38 yeas and 0 nays; title read and adopted and bill ordered to Ansardi PUBLIC CONTRACTS Authorizes Jefferson Parish to let design-build contracts for hurricane protection and flood control projects (Item #27) - Read by title and finally passed as amended 37 yeas and 0 nays; title read and adopted and bill ordered to Martiny /BDS & DISTRICTS Creates the office of hurricane flood protection within DOTD and establishes the Hurricane Flood Protection, Construction, and Development Priority Program within the Louisiana Coastal Zone (Item #1) - Reported without action. - Rules suspended - Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments, read by title and passed to a third reading. Alario GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Creates the Louisiana Recovery Authority (Item #3) - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call as amended. - Called from the calendar. - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 38 Thompson GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Provides for the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness as an agency in the governor's office reporting directly to the governor (Item #6) - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 34 yeas and 3 nays; title read and adopted and bill ordered to the House. Motion to reconsider Jefferson EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Requires the office of emergency preparedness to develop a comprehensive and coordinated evacuation plan for all coastal and hurricane-prone parishes (Item #6)

6 - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 37 6 of 9 HB71 HB72 HB78 HB82 HB88 HB90 HB93 Alario CAPITAL OUTLAY Provides for supplemental capital outlay appropriation for the Fiscal Year to the Department of Military Affairs (Item #24) - Read by title and finally passed, 36 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to Schneider (Constitutional Amendment) Adds requirement for voter approval of ad valorem taxes levied by certain levee districts (Item #1) - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call Montgomery PUBLIC CONTRACTS Authorizes the adjutant general and the Military Department to utilize the design-build method for certain construction projects (Item #23) - Read by title and finally passed, 35 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to Schneider Creates the Pontchartrain Basin Levee Authority (Item #1) - Read by title. Returned to the calendar subject to call as amended. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Provides for duties of the state office of homeland security and emergency preparedness (Item #6) - Read by title and finally passed as amended 37 yeas and 0 nays; title read and adopted and bill ordered to Hammett BONDS Provides relative to the limitation on net state tax supported debt for bonds issued to provide relief from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Item #34) - Read by title and finally passed, 37 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to Hammett BONDS Authorizes state to issue bonds to provide relief from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and implement certain bond provisions of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005 (Item #33) - Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and finally passed as amended, 37 HB97 Carter, K. INSURANCE/HOMEOWNERS Provides for disclosures of the terms of homeowners' policies by insurers (Item #36) - Read by title and finally passed, 36 yeas and 0 nays. Title read and adopted and bill ordered to HCR14 HCR15 Faucheux MILITARY AFFAIRS/NATL GD Requests the adjutant general to bestow medals of honor on members of LANG for service during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Hebert SANITARY CODE Urges and requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to loosen restrictions regarding the

7 Sanitary Code in hurricane-afflicted areas - Rules suspended, recalled from committee. - Read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas and o nays and ordered to the House. 7 of 9 HCR29 HCR33 HCR36 HCR37 HCR41 HCR43 HCR47 HCR48 HCR51 HCR52 Greene CIVIL/PROCEDURE Memorializes congress to amend the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to recognize state law and enact federal provisions which authorize the granting of legal continuances to state lawmakers while in legislative session - Read by title and concurred in by the vote of 36 yeas Smith, Jack FISHING/CRAWFISH Amends the membership of the Wild-Caught Crawfish Task Force - Read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas Downs Commends Richard David "Rick" Huckabay for his outstanding accomplishments, recognizes his achievements as a renowned basketball coach, and extends to him best wishes for health and recovery Triche Commends Mr. Danny Cavell as the recipient of the Thibodaux Chamber of Commerce Frank Kennedy Citizen of the Year Award Bruce Commends Brian Joseph Toups of Mansfield for his outstanding accomplishments and for appointment to the U.S. Military Academy Salter SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH Commends the Public Association Institute Student Association (PAISA) at LSU and recognizes April 13, 2006, as the eighth annual PAISA Day in the state of Louisiana Morrell U.S. Requests the U.S. Postal Service, particularly the Postmaster of New Orleans, to restore regular mail service to the citizens of New Orleans, including regular home delivery - Read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas LaFonta STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP Memorializes congress to take necessary actions to reduce certain student loan debt of college graduates residing in certain hurricane-affected areas of La. following graduation - Read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas Arnold TAX EXEMPTIONS/HOMESTEAD Urges and requests the Louisiana Tax Commission to recognize and honor the legislative intent of Acts 30 and 70 of the 2005 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature - Read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas Daniel Expresses the sincere and heartfelt condolences of the legislature upon the tragic death of Ensign Van Andrew Wilson, United States Navy SEAL

8 8 of 9 HCR53 HCR54 HCR55 HCR56 HCR57 HCR58 HCR59 HCR60 HCR61 HCR62 Salter Commends the Honorable Carl N. Crane upon being named Legislator of the Year by the Louisiana Association of Principals Commends the Krewe of Angels upon the occasion of its 34th annual Mardi Gras ball and congratulates the king and queen Recognizes Lieutenant General Russel Honoré Recognizes Brigadier General Sherian Cadoria Recognizes General Joe N. Ballard Recognizes Lieutenant General Edward Honor (Ret.) Recognizes Major General Gregory Rountree Recognizes Major General Charles Edward Honoré Recognizes Brigadier General Jude W. P. Patin Recognizes Brigadier General Donald Delandro - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended, read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas

9 HCR63 Recognizes Major General Isaac D. Smith - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended, read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas 9 of 9 HCR64 HCR65 HCR66 HCR67 HCR68 HCR69 HCR70 HCR71 HCR72 Burns EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Requests the office of homeland security and emergency preparedness to develop a rapid communications system - Received in the Senate. Read by title. Crowe PARISH/ST. TAMMANY Requests the governor to appoint a representative of St. Tammany Parish as a member of the Louisiana Recovery Authority in order to have a comprehensive and cohesive group working toward regional recovery efforts - Received in the Senate. Read by title. Walsworth Expresses condolences upon the death of Matthew Ron Barnes of West Monroe - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended, read by title and concurred in by the vote of 39 yeas Scalise CONGRESS Memorializes congress to enact legislation to change certain ZIP codes in Jefferson Parish Commends Tulane University Hospital and Clinic upon their grand reopening on February 14, 2006 Expresses gratitude to volunteers from the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Dental Association Expresses gratitude to Sister to Sister for their Handbags of Hope relief project Expresses gratitude to B Company, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for donation to the Katrina Disaster Relief Fund Alario Expresses condolences upon the death of Camille F. Gravel, Jr. and recognizes his outstanding accomplishments and singular contributions to the state of Louisiana