La. Rev. Stat. § 39:467 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 467
Sales of services and tangible personal property at a publicly owned domed stadium facility or baseball facility; sales and use tax; exemptions
Status: in_force

A. Definitions. For purposes of this Chapter the following terms and phrases shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Event" means any event, large scale bid-upon event, activity, or enterprise, excluding a trade show.

(2) "Large scale bid-upon event" means the instance when a nonprofit organization, located in a parish with a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand, whose mission is to bid upon, contract and manage large scale sporting and entertainment events on behalf of the state of Louisiana, has bid upon or been awarded an event which may have a bid requirement of a waiver of taxes or a waiver of all tax has been offered as an enhancement to significantly increase the probability of awarding the event to Louisiana.

(3) "Locally or university-owned domed facility" means a domed arena facility and adjacent and connected facilities which are under the jurisdiction of any political subdivision or any commission of such political subdivision if the domed arena facility on such property has a seating capacity of at least twelve thousand five hundred and is located within a parish with a population of more than one hundred eighty-five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census, or the publicly owned property on which the facilities are located.

(4) "Sales" means sales of taxable services and tangible personal property at an event at a locally or university-owned domed facility, a state-owned domed facility or baseball facility, or any other facility owned and operated by or for the state, or any of its agencies, boards, or commissions, or by any political subdivision or on the publicly owned property on which the facility is located, or as provided in Subsection G of this Section.

(5) "State-owned domed facility or baseball facility" means a public facility or site that is owned and operated by or for the state, or any of its agencies, boards, or commissions and is located within a body politic and corporate and political subdivision of the state composed of more than one parish and that meets any of the following criteria:

(a) A domed facility which has a seating capacity of at least seventy thousand, or the publicly owned property on which the facility is located.

(b) A domed facility which has a seating capacity of at least twelve thousand five hundred, or the publicly owned property on which the facility is located.

(c) An open baseball site, or the property on which the site is located, which site has a seating capacity of at least seven thousand five hundred, and has a professional sports franchise that participates in Class Triple-A professional baseball.

(6) "Trade show" means a trade show or other event at which the sale of goods is the primary purpose of the event.

B. State-owned facility. (1) Sales occurring for or at an event at a state-owned domed facility or baseball facility shall be exempt from sales and use taxes imposed by the state and political subdivisions as follows:

(a) Admission tickets to athletic contests or any large scale bid-upon events or any other events allowed under an existing lease or extension thereof, including for such contests and events where sales tax obligations created on or after April 1, 2016, were absorbed and the outstanding tax has yet to be remitted, sold in either of the following:

(i) The primary ticket market.

(ii) Secondary market ticket sales by a nonprofit host organization whose mission is to bid upon, contract, and manage large scale sporting and entertainment events on behalf of the state of Louisiana.

(b) Any sale, service, or other transaction, including the sale of parking, and for purposes of a state-owned baseball facility parking on adjacent property under the same jurisdiction, such sales occurring in the facility in connection with athletic contests or any large scale bid-upon events or any other events allowed under an existing lease or extension thereof.

(c) Sales of goods from a team merchandise store at the facility.

(d) Fifty percent of the cost price of admission tickets to events, activities, or enterprises other than tickets to athletic contests or any large scale bid-upon events, including for such contests and events where sales tax obligations created on or after April 1, 2016, were absorbed and the outstanding tax has yet to be remitted, wherever sold.

(e) Tours of the facility.

(f) The full price of admission on tickets for nonathletic events and any sale, service, or other transaction, including the sale of parking, relating to such nonathletic events, if the event was bid upon, awarded, or under contract on or before September 1, 2016.

(2) Disposition of state tax proceeds. Of the monies remaining after satisfaction of the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana concerning the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, and R.S. 47:318(A) concerning support of economic development, an amount equal to thirty percent of the proceeds of the tax imposed under R.S. 47:321 on sales occurring for or at the state-owned domed facility described in Subparagraph (A)(5)(a) of this Section shall be allocated one-half to the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, and one-half to the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. All monies remaining thereafter shall be deposited into the state general fund. For purposes of this allocation, on the last day of November of each year the secretary of the Department of Revenue shall provide to the chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration an official estimate of the amount of state revenues received within the previous twelve months which were derived from the tax imposed pursuant to R.S. 47:321 from sales for or at the state-owned domed facility described in Subparagraph (A)(5)(a) of this Section. The estimate shall be utilized by the commissioner of administration in the preparation of the following year's executive budget in which a recommendation shall be made to appropriate such amounts as may be necessary to provide for this allocation.

(3) Disposition of local tax proceeds from event sales at a state-owned domed facility.

(a) If the local sales and use tax proceeds were derived from event sales at a facility located on the property of a public postsecondary educational institution located in the parish, all such tax proceeds shall be distributed to that institution. This provision shall not apply to the Baton Rouge River Center or the Cajundome and Convention Center.

(b) After satisfaction of the requirements of Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph, of the total remaining local sales and use tax proceeds in a parish having a population in excess of three hundred twenty thousand and less than four hundred thousand persons as of the latest federal decennial census, which proceeds were derived from event sales at a state-owned domed facility subject to the provisions of this Section, an amount equal to twenty percent shall be distributed to the New Orleans Council on Aging. Monies to satisfy this dedication shall be derived proportionately from the sales and use tax distributions for the following purposes: fifty percent from the Orleans Parish School Board, and fifty percent from the Regional Transit Authority.

(c) After satisfaction of the requirements of Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph, of the total remaining local sales and use tax proceeds derived from event sales at the Angola State Penitentiary Prison Rodeo, an amount equal to twenty percent shall be allocated to the West Feliciana Parish School Board, and an amount equal to eighty percent shall be allocated to the West Feliciana Council on Aging.

C. Locally or university-owned domed facility. For purposes of state sales and use taxes, the following exemptions shall apply to sales occurring at an event at a locally or university-owned domed facility:

(1) Admission tickets to athletic contests or any large scale bid-upon events sold in either of the following:

(a) The primary ticket market.

(b) Secondary market ticket sales by a nonprofit host organization.

(2) Any sale, service, or other transaction occurring in such facility, including the sale of parking on adjacent property under the same jurisdiction, in connection with athletic contests or any large scale bid-upon events.

(3) Sales of goods from a team merchandise store at the facility.

(4) Fifty percent of the cost price of admission tickets to events, activities, or enterprises other than tickets to athletic contests or any large scale bid-upon events, wherever sold.

(5) Tours of the facility.

(6) The full price of admission on tickets for nonathletic events if the event was bid upon, awarded, or under contract on or before September 1, 2016.

D. The exemptions established in this Section shall apply to any event, activity, or enterprise held in conjunction with athletic events or any large scale bid-upon event or other event allowed under an existing lease or an extension thereof, inclusive of activities within and adjacent to the facility to which the exemptions apply.

E. The exemptions established in this Section shall not extend to any sale of services or tangible personal property not specifically provided for in this Section.

F. The provisions of this Section shall not be interpreted as either imposing or rendering the following activities subject to the imposition of any state or local tax:

(1) Sales of admission tickets and parking for intercollegiate athletic events sponsored or promoted by a Louisiana-based college or university, including any conferences, leagues, and associations in which they participate, and a nonprofit corporation affiliated with such college or university.

(2) Sales of admission tickets and parking for high school athletic events sponsored or promoted by a Louisiana high school, including any conferences, leagues, and associations in which they participate.

(3) Sales of admission tickets and parking for youth sports events sponsored or promoted by a Louisiana-based youth sports league or association.

G. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, for purposes of state and local sales and use taxes, the exemptions provided in Subsection B of this Section shall apply to sales for or at a regularly scheduled major annual sporting event when the income taxes attributable to the nonresident professional athletes participating in the event are dedicated to the Sports Facility Assistance Fund in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 39:100.1.

H. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, including any contrary provisions of R.S. 47:302(X) and (Y) as enacted by Act No. 25 of the 2016 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature, R.S. 47:321(L) and (M), R.S. 47:321.1(F), or R.S. 47:331(S) and (T), and except as otherwise specifically provided for in Subparagraphs (B)(1)(a), (d), and (f) and Paragraph (C)(6) of this Section, the exemptions from state sales and use taxes authorized in this Section shall be applicable and effective on and after April 1, 2016.

Acts 1985, No. 2, §1, eff. May 23, 1985; Acts 2005, No. 391, §1, eff. Aug. 1, 2005; Acts 2009, No. 464, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2016, 2 nd Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, eff. June 28, 2016; Acts 2017, No. 374, §4, eff. June 23, 2017; Acts 2024, No. 466, §1.

NOTE: See Acts 2016, 2 nd Ex. Sess., No. 13, §2, re: applicability.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:528 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 528
Bond anticipation notes
Status: in_force

A. Any governmental entity may authorize the issuance of bond anticipation notes in one or more series in anticipation of the issuance of bonds which it has duly and lawfully authorized. The proceeds of the sale of such notes, exclusive of accrued interest, shall be used for the purpose of paying capitalized interest on such notes for renewing the principal amount of previously issued bond anticipation notes, and for the purpose for which the anticipated bonds were authorized.

B. Bond anticipation notes shall be payable in principal from the proceeds of the sale of the duly authorized bonds, from the sale of additional bond anticipation notes, from revenue sources from which the anticipated bonds securities are payable when issued, or from other lawfully available funds. Interest on bond anticipation notes may be capitalized and paid from the proceeds of the issue, paid from the revenue source from which the anticipated bonds are payable when issued, or paid from other lawfully available funds.

C. The total amount of bond anticipation notes issued and outstanding at any one time shall not exceed the principal amount of authorized bonds in anticipation of which the bond anticipation notes were issued.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1430 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1430
Revenue bonds and security therefor
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, public entities may issue revenue bonds for any authorized purpose payable out of the income, revenues, and receipts derived or to be derived from the properties and facilities owned, leased, mortgaged, or pledged to, maintained or operated by the public entity or received by the public entity from these properties and facilities, or from contracts or agreements relating to these properties and facilities, including but not limited to lease or sublease agreements, sale agreements, loan agreements, pledge agreements, or other financing agreements, between that public entity or any entity, or from any other sources whatsoever, including but not by way of limitation sales tax revenues, provided annual debt service is not in excess of seventy-five percent of the sales tax revenues estimated to be received in the calendar year the bonds are issued, other monies which, by law or contract, may be made available to the public entity. No filing with respect to the pledge of income and revenues to the payment of revenue bonds issued under the constitution or any statute of this state need be made under Chapter 9 of Title 10 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended.

B. Nothing contained in this Section is or shall be construed as a restriction or a limitation upon any powers which any public entity might otherwise have under any laws of this state. This Section shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 513, §1, eff. July 22, 1982; Acts 1985, §727, §7, eff. July 16, 1985; Acts 1988, No. 619, §1; Acts 1989, No. 137, §14; Acts 1989, No. 598, §4, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.

{{NOTE: ACTS 1989, NO. 137, §14 SUPERSEDED BY ACTS 1989, NO. 598, §9.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:16.9 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 16.9
Duties of the commissioner relative to the state debt database
Status: in_force

A.(1) The commissioner shall ensure the website includes a state debt database that is electronically searchable by the public.

(2) The state treasurer shall establish and maintain the state debt database and provide access or integration to the database.

(3) All agencies, boards, commissions, and departments of the state are directed to furnish information, reports, aid, services, and assistance to the extent allowed by state and federal law and regulations as may be requested by the state treasurer in the performance of the treasurer's responsibilities as set forth in this Subsection.

B. The state debt database shall have the following functionality:

(1) Search and aggregate debt by agency.

(2) Search and aggregate debt from multiple fiscal years.

C. The state debt database shall include the following content:

(1) Amounts and categories of state debt, such as pensions, post-employment benefit obligations, and capital construction.

(2) Amounts and categories of local debt backed by the full faith and credit of the state.

(3) Annual costs of debt service by category and budget unit.

(4) Sources of funding for state debt obligations.

(5) The per capita costs of state debt.

(6) National and other state comparisons of Louisiana's debt.

(7) Information used to determine the state's net state tax supported debt.

NOTE: §16.9. as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of ad ministration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.

§16.9. Repealed by Acts 2023, No. 446, §4, see Act.

Acts 2018, 2 nd Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2023, No. 446, §4, see Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.211 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.211
Court Modernization and Technology Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Court Modernization and Technology Fund, hereinafter referred to in this Section as the "fund". The fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court to provide funding for technology upgrades in courts under the supervisory jurisdiction of the supreme court pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of Louisiana.

B. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

C. The supreme court shall promulgate rules, regulations, and procedures as necessary for the administration of the fund, including establishing minimum technology standards for the courts, procedures for application, audit and monitoring requirements, and annual reporting requirements.

D. The Judicial Council shall administer monies in the fund as follows:

(1) To establish the initial framework for regional technology support for courts.

(2) To prioritize funding to courts that do not meet the minimum technology standards in the following areas:

(a) Hardware and software.

(b) Cybersecurity.

(c) Case and document management systems.

(3) To provide for statewide judicial technology projects, including the following:

(a) Supreme court integrated case management system.

(b) Centralized online judicial portal for data collection and electronic payment submission.

E. Beginning October 1, 2023, the Judicial Council shall submit a quarterly status report of all funding allocated pursuant to this Section to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

Acts 2023, No. 410, §4, eff. June 15, 2023; Acts 2024, No. 723, §3, eff. June 19, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1614 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1614
Approval of accounting system
Status: in_force

Except with respect to firm fixed-price contracts, no contract type shall be used unless it has been determined in writing by the chief procurement officer or his designee that:

(1) The proposed contractor's accounting system will permit timely development of all necessary cost data in the form required by the specific contract type contemplated.

(2) The contractor's accounting system is adequate to allocate costs in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1984 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1984
Size and length of time in business; interim certification
Status: in_force

A. Size of business or length of time in business shall not be considered a prerequisite for certification. However, the division may require that this information be provided in order to determine whether the business qualifies for minority or women's business enterprise status under federal regulations.

B.(1) The division may promulgate rules to provide for the issuance of an interim certification for a potential business enterprise which is seeking assistance from a state financial or other direct assistance program.

(2) Once the potential business is formed, the business enterprise shall apply and maintain certification under the provisions of this Chapter for the duration of a program loan, or for a specified length of time to be determined by the division in the instance of any direct assistance.

Acts 1984, No. 653, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.62 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.62
Community Options Waiver Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Community Options Waiver Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "fund".

B.(1) The source of monies in the fund shall be as follows:

(a) In any fiscal year, the state treasurer is directed to deposit twelve percent of the total of recurring state general fund revenue as recognized by the Revenue Estimating Conference in excess of the official forecast at the beginning of the current fiscal year, not to exceed fifty million dollars in any fiscal year, into the fund, and monies in the fund from this Subparagraph shall be used for appropriation in the ensuing fiscal year. Such deposits shall not affect the deposits required pursuant to R.S. 39:100.61.

(b) Monies designated for the fund and received by the state treasurer from donations, gifts, grants, appropriations, or other revenue.

(2) Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

(3) For the purposes of this Section, "waiver services" means Medicaid services provided under the Community Choices Waiver or the Adult Day Health Care Waiver or any other Medicaid home and community-based service for persons with adult-onset disabilities as promulgated by rule by the Louisiana Department of Health. The Louisiana Department of Health shall consult with stakeholders representing persons with adult-onset disabilities to develop a plan for appropriations out of the fund.

C. Subject to an appropriation by the legislature, monies in the fund shall be used solely to fund waiver services, to improve the capacity of the state to meet the varying and complex needs of individuals with adult-onset disabilities, and shall be administered by the Louisiana Department of Health. The funding shall not be used to supplant appropriations from the general fund for waiver services. Nothing contained in this Subpart shall prohibit the legislature from appropriating additional monies for waiver services.

Acts 2023, No. 187, §1, eff. July 1, 2023; Acts 2024, No. 723, §3, eff. June 19, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:125.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 125.1
Disposal of projects which received funding through the capital outlay budget; limitations; requirements
Status: in_force

A. For projects included in the capital outlay budget for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2024, the owner of a project that received funding through the sale of general obligation bonds for acquiring lands, buildings, equipment, or other permanent properties or for the preservation or development of permanent improvements through the capital outlay budget shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the project while repayment of the bonds, including debt service, by the state is outstanding unless all of the following conditions are met:

(1) The property owner obtains, at his own cost, an opinion from current bond counsel to the state that the sale will not affect the tax exempt status of the bonds.

(2) The property owner receives prior written approval by the commissioner of administration.

(3) All other conditions required for the disposal of the project by the property owner have been met.

B. If the commissioner of administration approves a property owner disposing of a project that received funding through the sale of general obligation bonds, the commissioner shall notify the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs in writing within ten days of the approval.

Acts 2023, No. 82, §1, eff. July 1, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.161 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.161
Louisiana Unclaimed Property Permanent Trust Fund
Status: in_force

A. There shall be established in the state treasury as a special permanent trust fund, the Louisiana Unclaimed Property Permanent Trust Fund, referred to as the "UCP Permanent Trust Fund". No appropriation shall be made from the UCP Permanent Trust Fund.

(1) The purpose of the UCP Permanent Trust Fund is to ensure a source of payment for claims made by owners of unclaimed property. After allocation of money to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund as provided in Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, after the payment of all administrative fees, costs, and expenses as provided by law, and after the deposit of monies into the Unclaimed Property Leverage Fund, the treasurer shall annually deposit in and credit to the UCP Permanent Trust Fund the net amount of all monies received as a result of the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act of 1997 or its successors at least annually.

(2) Realized capital gains, dividend income, and interest income, earned on the investments in the UCP Permanent Trust Fund, net of trust fund investment and administrative expenses, shall be deposited into the state general fund.

(3) All monies shall be credited to the fund as provided in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection until the balance in the UCP Permanent Trust Fund equals the amount of the state's potential liability to unclaimed property claimants as reported in the previous fiscal year pursuant to Subsection C of this Section. All monies received in excess of the state's potential liability to unclaimed property claimants as reported by the state treasurer shall be deposited into the state general fund.

B.(1) The monies credited to the UCP Permanent Trust Fund pursuant to Subsection A of this Section shall be permanently credited to the UCP Permanent Trust Fund and shall be invested by the treasurer. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a portion of money in the UCP Permanent Trust Fund, not to exceed fifty percent of the money in the fund, may be invested in equities. Investment earnings shall be available for appropriation to pay expenses incurred in the investment and management of the UCP Permanent Trust Fund.

(2) The monies deposited in and permanently credited to the UCP Permanent Trust Fund pursuant to Subsection A of this Section shall be invested by the state treasurer.

(3) Subject to the limitations provided in this Subsection, the state treasurer may invest the monies deposited in and credited to the UCP Permanent Trust Fund in the same manner as authorized for the Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund as set forth in R.S. 17:3803.

(4) Subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission, the state treasurer may contract for the management of UCP Permanent Trust Fund investments. Expenses of the fund, including but not limited to expenses incurred for outside investment managers for the investment and management of the fund assets and for other custody, investment, and disbursement costs directly attributable to the fund, may be paid from fund investment earnings.

(5) Expenses attributable to the state treasurer exercising responsibility for the custody, investment, and disbursement of the monies in the fund are administrative costs that shall be paid by appropriation from fund investment earnings. For the purposes of this Paragraph, the term "administrative costs" includes but is not limited to those costs attributable to fees charged by any financial institution for providing custodial services, which shall not exceed two percent of the amount managed, and costs incurred for outside investment managers for the investment and management of the fund, which shall not exceed two percent of the amount managed.

C.(1) Not less than sixty days before the beginning of each regular session of the legislature, the state treasurer shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report of the following:

(a) The balance of the UCP Permanent Trust Fund as of the close of the prior fiscal year.

(b) The state's potential liability to unclaimed property claimants as of the close of the prior fiscal year.

(2) If unclaimed property claims exceed receipts, the state treasurer shall certify the amount needed to pay received claims and shall allocate sufficient funds from the UCP Permanent Trust Fund to pay that amount. The state treasurer shall also immediately notify the legislature and governor of the amount transferred from the UCP Permanent Trust Fund and amount remaining in the UCP Permanent Trust Fund.

D. Property received by the state pursuant to the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act of 1997 as established in R.S. 9:151 et seq. and deposited into the UCP Permanent Trust Fund is private property held in trust until a claim is made for it by the owner.

Acts 2020 1st Ex. Sess., No. 20, §1, eff. July 1, 2021.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:561 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 561
Issuing bonds; resolution
Status: in_force

If a majority in number and amount of the qualified property taxpayers voting at an election held under the provisions of this Chapter vote in favor of the proposition to incur debt and issue negotiable bonds, the governing authorities after promulgation of the result of the election, may by resolution authorize the issuance of the bonds, in an amount not exceeding the amount stated in the proposition, which bonds shall not be issued for any other purpose than that stated in the proposition.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.92 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.92
Grants for Grads Program; eligibility and registration
Status: in_force

A. Eligibility. (1) A graduate shall be eligible to register for the program if:

(a) He is a Louisiana resident who has received either an associate, baccalaureate, masters, or other postgraduate degree from an institution of higher education.

(b) He is able to provide to the agency evidence documenting his Louisiana residency and high school and college graduation.

(c) Intends to live and work in Louisiana for at least five years after his college graduation or completion of a postgraduate degree.

(d) Intends to purchase a permanent home in Louisiana.

(2) A graduate who is married to a person who has previously received a grant under this program shall be ineligible to register or participate in the program.

B. Registration. Eligible graduates who choose to participate in the program shall register with the agency no later than the sixtieth day after their college graduation date or date of completion of their postgraduate degree. A married person, whose spouse is also eligible to register for the program, shall register individually and shall make the actual or potential registration of his spouse known to the agency. The agency shall provide for the content and format of the documentation required for registration. No graduate may apply for a grant unless he has registered for the program pursuant to this Section.

Acts 2008, No. 748, §1, eff. July 6, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:521 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 521
General obligation bonds
Status: in_force

A. Any governmental entity may incur debt and issue general obligation bonds under the authority of Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of Louisiana and this Part, for the purpose of financing any capital expenditures related to the lawful purposes of the governmental entity, title to which shall be in the public. Such bonds may be issued only after having been approved by a majority of the electors who vote in an election held in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code for the purpose of approving the issuance of the bonds. The proposition submitted to the electors shall state the maximum principal amount of bonds to be issued, the maximum term, which shall not exceed forty years, the maximum interest rate, the purposes for which the bonds are proposed to be issued, and the estimated millage rate to be levied for the repayment of such bonds in the first year of issue.

B. After the results of the election have been promulgated in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code, the governing authority of the governmental entity may proceed to issue the bonds within the parameters approved by the electors.

C.(1) The principal amount of bonds to be issued under this Section, together with the principal amount of outstanding general obligation bonds of the governmental entity, as calculated on the total assessed value of the governmental entity, as shown on the most recent assessment prior to the delivery of the bonds, regardless of the date on which the election was held, shall not exceed:

(a) For school boards and school districts, thirty-five percent.

(b) For municipalities and parishes, ten percent for each authorized purpose or thirty-five percent in the aggregate for all purposes.

(c) For all other governmental entities, twenty percent in the aggregate for all purposes.

(2) In the event that the total assessed value of the governmental entity does not appear on the most recent assessment prior to the delivery of the bonds, or if the boundaries of the government entity have been enlarged or significant property added to the total assessed value since the most recent assessment, then the parish or municipal assessor for such governmental entity shall certify the total assessed value of the governmental entity as of the date of delivery of the bonds and such certification shall be used for calculating the debt limits set forth in this Section.

(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any governmental entity with a general obligation debt limit under any other provision of law that is in excess of the debt limit set forth in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection may issue general obligation bonds under this Part using such higher debt limit.

D.(1) The full faith and credit of the government entity is hereby pledged to the payment of general obligation bonds issued by such governmental entity under this Part. The governing authority of any governmental entity issuing general obligation bonds under this Part shall impose and collect annually, for as long as any of its general obligation bonds are outstanding and unpaid, in excess of all other taxes and without limit as to rate or amount, a tax on all property subject to taxation by the governmental entity sufficient to pay the interest and the principal falling due each year, or such amount as may be required for any sinking fund necessary to retire said bonds at maturity. The tax shall be levied and collected, for as long as any of its general obligation bonds are outstanding and unpaid by the same officers, at the same time, and in the same manner as the general taxes of the governmental entity and, except as provided in Paragraph (6) of this Subsection, may be expended solely for payment of debt service on such bonds and administrative expenses relating thereto, such as trustee or paying agent fees and other costs directly related to the administration of such bonds. Should the governmental entity neglect or fail for any reason to impose or collect sufficient taxes for the payment of the principal or interest of any bonds issued hereunder, any person in interest may enforce imposition and collection thereof in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter, and any suit, action, or proceeding brought by such person in interest shall be a preferred cause, and shall be heard and disposed of without delay.

(2) For the purpose of reducing the overall tax burden on taxpayers and easing the administrative burden of accounting for separate tax levies, any governmental entity with more than one outstanding issue or series of general obligation bonds shall levy a single unified tax for the payment of all of such issues or series.

(3) As additional security for the owners of general obligation bonds issued by any special service district that has been created by a parish or municipal governing authority pursuant to a general state law, if there is any default in the imposition and collection of any tax required for the payment of the principal or interest of any general obligation bonds issued by such special service district, then the governing authority of the municipality or parish that created the special service district shall impose and the taxing officers of the parish in which the special service district is situated shall collect at the same time and in the same manner as taxes for parish purposes are imposed and collected, such tax on the taxable property of the special service district as shall be necessary for the payment of the principal and interest on the general obligation bonds of such special service district.

(4) All the articles and provisions of the Constitution of Louisiana, and all the laws in force or that may be enacted on and after July 1, 2018, regulating and relating to the collection of taxes and tax sales shall also apply to and regulate the collection of the special taxes imposed under the provisions of this Part, through the officer whose duty it is to collect the taxes and monies due the subdivision imposing the special taxes.

(5) As additional security for the owners of all general obligation bonds issued by any governmental entity, in the event of any default in the imposition and collection of the taxes required for the payment of such bonds the taxing officers of the state are further authorized and directed to impose and collect the taxes, and shall certify them, and cause them to be imposed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the taxes for state purposes are imposed and collected in the subdivision incurring the debt.

(6) Upon the payment in full of general obligation bonds, if any excess monies remain in the sinking fund or debt service fund for such bonds, such monies shall be retained therein for the payment of any other outstanding general obligation bonds of the governmental entity, or if the governmental entity has no other outstanding general obligation bonds then such monies may be expended for capital projects similar to those for which the bonds were originally issued.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:23 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 23
Official information
Status: in_force

"Official information" is the data, forecasts, estimates, analyses, studies, and other information which the principals of the Revenue Estimating Conference adopt for purposes of budget development, enactment, and execution as provided for in this Chapter through a process to be decided by the principals of the conference.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2157 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2157
Qui tam action; civil action filed by private person
Status: in_force

A. A private person may institute a civil action to seek recovery on behalf of hurricane relief programs and himself, except for the civil monetary penalty provided in R.S. 39:2156(C), for a violation of this Chapter. The institutor shall be known as a "qui tam plaintiff" and the civil action shall be known as a "qui tam action".

B.(1) A qui tam plaintiff shall be an original source of the information which serves as the basis for the alleged violation. More than one person may serve as a qui tam plaintiff in a qui tam action arising out of the same information and allegations provided each person qualifies as an original source.

(2) For purposes of this Section, the term "original source" means a person who has direct and independent knowledge of the alleged violation and who has voluntarily provided the information to the attorney general before filing a qui tam action with the court.

C. No qui tam action shall be instituted later than one year after the date a qui tam complaint is received by the attorney general.

D.(1) No court shall have jurisdiction over a qui tam action based upon a disclosure of allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil, or administrative hearing or as the result of disclosure of a governmental audit report, investigation, or hearing unless the person bringing the action is an original source of the information.

(2) No court shall have jurisdiction over a qui tam action based upon a disclosure through the media unless the person bringing the action is an original source of the information and that fact is confirmed by a person with knowledge of who provided the information.

E.(1) A person who is or was a public employee or public official or a person who is or was acting on behalf of the state shall not bring a qui tam action if the person has or had a duty or obligation to report, investigate, or pursue allegations of wrongdoing or misconduct by persons who apply for relief from or work for hurricane relief programs.

(2) A person who is or was a public employee or public official or a person who is or was acting on behalf of the state shall not bring a qui tam action if the person has or had access to records of the state through the normal course and scope of his employment or other relationship with the state.

F. No employer of a qui tam plaintiff shall discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or discriminate against a qui tam plaintiff at any time arising out of the fact that the qui tam plaintiff brought an action pursuant to this Chapter unless the court finds that the qui tam plaintiff has instituted or proceeded with an action that is frivolous, vexatious, or harassing.

G. The court shall allow the attorney general to intervene and proceed with the qui tam action in the district court at any time during the qui tam action proceedings.

H. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a qui tam complaint and information filed with the attorney general shall not be subject to discovery or become public record until judicial service of the qui tam action is made on any of the defendants, except that the information contained therein may be given to other governmental entities or their authorized agents for review and investigation. Such entities and their authorized agents shall maintain the confidentiality of the information provided to them under this Subsection.

Acts 2006, No. 479, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1704 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1704
Cooperative use of supplies or services
Status: in_force

Any public procurement unit may enter into an agreement, independent of the requirements of Part III of this Chapter or Title 38, with any other public procurement unit or external procurement activity for the cooperative use of supplies or services, under the terms agreed upon between the parties.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:141 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 141
Duties of the office of telecommunications management
Status: in_force

A. The office of telecommunications management shall have the following duties:

(1) To establish and coordinate all telecommunications systems and telecommunications services affecting the management and operations of the executive branch of state government. Telecommunications systems, including equipment and related services, and telecommunications services shall mean the equipment and services and means necessary to provide:

(a) Telecommunications transmission facilities and services.

(b) Voice telecommunications systems and services.

(c) Local area network systems and services.

(d) Wide area network systems and services.

(e) Video systems and services, except those video systems and services specifically reserved to the Louisiana Educational Television Authority pursuant to R.S. 17:2501.

(f) Wireless systems and services to include, but not be limited to, cellular and personal communications systems.

(g) Radio systems, to include but not be limited to two-way radio systems; however, the operational abilities and priorities of two-way communications of the departments in the executive branch shall not be impeded.

(h) Intercom and electro-mechanical paging systems.

(i) Any and all systems and services based on emerging and future telecommunications technologies relating to Subparagraphs (a) through (h) of this Paragraph.

(2) To act as the sole centralized customer for the acquisition, billing, and recordkeeping of all telecommunications systems or telecommunications services provided to state agencies. The ownership of such systems procured by the office of telecommunications management may vest in the respective agency, but control of the systems shall be retained by the office of telecommunications management.

(3) To charge respective user agencies for the cost of the telecommunications systems and telecommunications services provided by the office of telecommunications management including the cost of the operation of the office. These costs shall be charged in a consistent and equitable manner.

(4) To develop coordinated telecommunications systems or telecommunications services within and among all state agencies and require, where appropriate, cooperative utilization of telecommunications systems and telecommunications services by aggregating users. National Crime Information Center network usage is exempted from this Section.

(5) To review, coordinate, approve, or disapprove all requests by state agencies for the procurement of telecommunications systems or telecommunications services including telecommunications proposals, studies, and consultation contracts or services.

(6) To establish and define telecommunications systems and telecommunications services specifications and designs so as to assure compatibility of telecommunications systems and telecommunications services within state government.

(7) To promote, coordinate, or assist in the design and engineering of emergency telecommunications systems and telecommunications services within state government.

(8) To advise and provide consultation to agencies with respect to telecommunications management planning and related matters and to provide training to users within state government in telecommunications technology and system use.

(9) To develop policies, procedures, and long-range plans, consistent with the protection of citizens' rights to privacy and access to information, for the acquisition and use of telecommunications systems, and to base such policies on current information about state telecommunications activities in relation to the full range of emerging technologies.

(10) To manage, with the concurrence of the building owner, access by telecommunications common carriers to state facilities.

B. Agencies shall cooperate with the office of telecommunications management's fulfillment of the office's duties as established by this Part. However, nothing provided in this Part shall be construed to preempt the authorities granted to the higher education boards in Article VIII of the Constitution of Louisiana. Public postsecondary institutions of education, their management boards, and the Board of Regents shall be excluded from this Part unless the state chief information officer can verify that inclusion per contracted service would result in savings to the institution or board.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 153, §1, eff. July 12, 1982. Acts 1984, No. 617, §1; Acts 1985, No. 57, §1; Acts 1986, No. 469, §1; Acts 1990, No. 876, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1098, §1, eff. July 14, 1997; Acts 2001, No. 772, §3, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2015, No. 241, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1335 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1335
Submission of budget
Status: in_force

Not later than the first day of January in each year, each licensing agency shall submit a copy of its proposed budget for the ensuing fiscal year to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, to each chairman of a standing committee of the legislature having jurisdiction as listed in R.S. 49:966, to the legislative auditor, and to the legislative fiscal office.

Acts 1989, No. 751, §2, eff. July 8, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1025 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1025
Parish school board bonds
Status: in_force

A. It is the intention of this Section to provide authority for any parish school board located in a parish with a population exceeding one hundred fifty thousand according to the latest federal decennial census to issue bonds secured by the general revenues of the school board limited to existing ad valorem taxes or sales taxes levied by such school board.

B. Subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission, such school board may issue its bonds for the purpose of recovering the costs of capital expenditures paid from general revenues of the school board, excluding payments from bond proceeds, and/or for refunding, extending, or unifying any debt obligations of the school board, and funding any necessary reserves in connection therewith and paying the costs of issuance of the bonds. Such bonds shall be issued in the name of the school board and shall be limited obligations secured by existing ad valorem or sales tax revenues. Such bonds shall not be delivered unless they receive an investment grade rating from either Moody's Investors Service or Standard & Poors Corporation, or their successors. In order to issue such bonds, said school board must redeposit proceeds of the bonds in capital fund.

C. Bonds may be issued under the authority conferred in this Section in such amount or amounts of past capital expenditures as the school board is legally eligible to recover. The bonds shall be authorized by a resolution of the school board and shall be of such series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their respective dates, bear interest, payable at such times and in such manner, be in such denominations, be in such form, carry such registration and exchangeability privilege, be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, be subject to such terms of redemption, and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute to the contrary, be entitled to such priority on the pledged revenues as such resolution or resolutions may provide.

D. Any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds or other debt obligations under this Section may provide for creation of sinking funds, reserve funds or other special funds to secure the payment of such bonds.

E. The resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds may contain such covenants with the future holder of the bonds or other debt obligation as to the disposition of fees and revenues, the issuance of future bonds and other debt obligations, and the creation of future liens and encumbrances against the pledged revenues, the disposition of proceeds of insurance, and other pertinent matters, as may be deemed necessary by the governing body to assure the marketability of the bonds, provided these covenants are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Section.

F. The provisions of Chapters 13 and 13A of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes as currently enacted or as may hereafter be amended shall apply to the bonds and, for the purpose of the application of the provisions of said Chapters, the bonds shall be deemed to be revenue bonds.

Acts 1987, No. 877, §1, eff. July 20, 1987; Acts 1988, No. 763, §1, eff. July 15, 1988.

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1988, NO. 763, §2 - EXPIRATION DATE OF JUNE 30, 1989.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:84 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 84
Budget controls on personnel
Status: in_force

A. Ten days after the signing of the general appropriations bill for the fiscal year, the executive budget office shall take such actions as are necessary to establish the number of authorized positions for each budget unit, program, or subprogram in the information system provided for in R.S. 39:83. The budget office shall adjust the number to reflect changes made in accordance with law. The head of each budget unit may adjust the classifications of the positions included in this number, except as limited by this Section.

B.(1) If a personnel transaction conforms with and does not exceed the number of the authorized positions in the information system for the budget unit, program, or subprogram it shall be considered approved; and the budget unit, program, or subprogram may proceed as otherwise provided by law, regulation, or executive order to complete the transaction. A personnel transaction which would purport to fill a position that is not in the approved personnel table of authorized positions for the budget unit, program, or subprogram shall not be effective unless the information system is adjusted to accommodate the requested transaction and unless approved as provided in this Section.

(2) Each budget unit of the state shall submit a request for any personnel transaction to the director of state civil service for approval, except that budget units, programs, or subprograms within the department of a statewide elected official need not request such prior approval as it relates to personnel transactions for employees within the unclassified service of the state, but shall notify the Department of State Civil Service that such personnel transactions have occurred within five working days of the actual transactions.

(3) The director of state civil service shall determine whether the action requested is appropriate, such as on a request to reclassify a position upward, whether the position's duties necessitate this action. If the director of state civil service finds that the position is appropriate, he shall approve the personnel transaction. However, the director of state civil service shall not approve a personnel transaction for a position which is paid from the salaries continuing category that is not in the approved personnel table of authorized positions.

(4) The Department of State Civil Service may reclassify any position in a personnel table when sufficient documentation is presented, provided sufficient funds are available in the remaining salaries continuing category for the budget unit, program, or subprogram. The personnel table shall be updated to reflect any position reclassification or other change made by the Department of State Civil Service that affects the information contained in the table and shall be made on the effective date of the change.

C.(1) If approval is granted for a personnel transaction under the provisions of Subsection B of this Section, the budget unit, program, or subprogram may proceed as provided by law, regulation, or executive order to complete the transaction. The commissioner of administration shall monitor all personnel transactions affecting the authorized positions. Should the commissioner determine that personnel transactions are adversely affecting the ability of the budget unit, program, or subprogram to effectively perform its mission or the balance of the salaries continuing category, he shall notify the head of the budget unit and the legislative fiscal office. After this notification, the commissioner shall take such actions as are necessary to require that all modifications to the personnel table of authorized positions will be individually approved by the budget office.

(2) If the commissioner of administration disapproves a transaction, he shall inform the head of the budget unit of the reason the proposed personnel transaction was not approved. The reasons may be only a finding that a reclassification is not warranted as requested, that insufficient funds have been appropriated for personnel in the budget category, or that the action was not consistent with the agency program goals. Nothing herein shall prevent a request for the transfer of funds or positions as provided in this Chapter or by any other law.

D. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to limit the authority of the governor, the state civil service commission, the commissioner of administration, the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, or of any other official or entity, as provided by law or executive order, to regulate, control, or prohibit any personnel transaction.

E. The commissioner of administration and the Department of State Civil Service shall, by joint regulation, provide for the circumstances and method by which temporary appointments can be made.

F. The division of administration shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget on the status of such automated personnel transaction system until the system is fully operational.

G. On request, the Department of State Civil Service shall submit to the legislative fiscal office or the budget office a personnel chart by department which displays the number of authorized positions and filled positions, organized by budget unit, program, or subprogram and according to occupational groups established by Civil Service.

H. In the last ninety days of the last year of the term of the office of a governor, no cost-of-living increases, performance adjustments, or other general salary increases for unclassified employees in any budget unit, agency, or department of the executive branch of state government shall become effective unless first approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. Additionally, other relevant provisions of this Section shall be satisfied before such an increase shall take effect.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 2016, No. 517, §1, eff. July 1, 2016.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:345.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 345.1
Denial of warrants pursuant to resolution of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of a resolution of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget which directs the denial of warrants for a particular entity, the commissioner of administration and the state treasurer shall deny any warrant for the benefit of such entity until receipt of a resolution to recommence the payment of warrants.

Acts 2008, No. 842, §2, eff. July 8, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1549 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1549
Workers' Compensation programs; discrimination prohibited
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no state agency, board, or commission shall discriminate against any contractor or subcontractor based upon the method used by such contractor or subcontractor to secure workers' compensation coverage as defined in R.S. 23:1168 or R.S. 23:1195 et seq. when such agency, board, or commission requires a contractor or subcontractor to provide workers' compensation coverage.

Acts 1992, No. 1124, §2; Acts 2001, No. 927, §2, eff. June 26, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:466.11 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 466.11
Authorization to buildings, structures and facilities
Status: in_force

The State Bond Commission is hereby authorized and directed to obtain funds not in excess of eleven million dollars for the construction by the Capital Construction and Improvement Commission of buildings, structures and other facilities comprising the capital outlay program of the Louisiana State School for the Deaf to be located in East Baton Rouge Parish and the furnishings and equipment therefor.

Added by Acts 1970, No. 68, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:348 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 348
Certificates of payment
Status: in_force

Whenever any person indebted to the state on any account whatever presents to the commissioner of administration the state treasurer's receipt for the full payment of the amount due, the commissioner shall furnish the person a certificate signed by him acknowledging that full payment has been made of all demands against him in favor of the state.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1716 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1716
Contract controversies
Status: in_force

Under a cooperative purchasing agreement, controversies arising between an administering public procurement unit and its bidders, proposers, or contractors shall be resolved in accordance with Part VI of this Chapter, where the administering public procurement unit is a state public procurement unit or otherwise subject to Part VI.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.42 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.42
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this Subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Allocation fund" shall mean the Coronavirus Local Recovery Allocation Fund.

(2) "Allocation program" shall mean the Local Recovery Allocation Program administered by the commissioner of administration and GOHSEP.

(3) "CARES Act" shall mean the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Public Law 116-136 and any guidance or regulations issued by the United States Department of the Treasury as of the date of this Act or thereafter relative to the CARES Act.

(4) "CARES fund" for the purposes of this Subpart, shall mean the monies received by the state from the federal government pursuant to the CARES Act in the amount of one billion eight hundred two million six hundred nineteen thousand three hundred forty-two dollars.

(5) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of the division of administration of the state.

(6) "COVID-19" means the Coronavirus disease 2019.

(7) "Eligible business" means a for-profit corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, or a sole proprietorship that meets all of the following criteria:

(a) Was domiciled in Louisiana as of March 1, 2020.

(b) Is in good standing with the secretary of state, if applicable.

(c) Suffered an interruption of business caused by forced or voluntary closures or restricted operations due to social distancing measures, decreased customer demand, cleaning or disinfection expenses, and providing personal protective equipment.

(d) Is at least fifty percent owned by one or more Louisiana residents, whether individual resident citizens or Louisiana domestic business entities.

(e) Filed Louisiana taxes for tax year 2018 or 2019, or, if an eligible business formed on or after January 1, 2020, intends to file Louisiana taxes for tax year 2020.

(f) Has customers or employees coming to its physical premises.

(g) Had no more than fifty full-time equivalent employees as of March 1, 2020.

(h) Is not a subsidiary of a business with more than fifty full-time equivalent employees, is not part of a larger business enterprise with more than fifty full-time equivalent employees, and is not owned by a business with more than fifty full-time equivalent employees.

(i) Does not exist for the purpose of advancing partisan political activity. Does not directly lobby federal or state officials.

(j) Does not derive income from passive investments without active participation in business operations.

(8) "Grant" means an award by the treasurer to an eligible business.

(9) "GOHSEP" shall mean the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

(10) "Interruption of business" means business interruption caused by forced or voluntary closures or restricted operations, including but not limited to social distancing measures, decreased customer demand, cleaning or disinfection expenses, and providing personal protective equipment, related to COVID-19.

(11) "Local government unit" means a parish, municipality, town, township, village or other unit of general government below the state level with parishwide jurisdiction including but not limited to sheriffs, coroners, and district attorneys. Entities which do not fit within the definition of political subdivision as used in this Subpart shall have the parish with which they are affiliated submit the application.

(12) "Louisiana taxes" means all taxes administered by the secretary of the Department of Revenue pursuant to Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended.

(13) "Minority business enterprise" means a small business organized for profit performing a commercially useful function which is at least fifty percent owed by one or more minority individuals, women, or veterans, who also control and operate the business. In addition to the requirements of this Paragraph, if more than one person owns the enterprise, at least fifty percent of the owners must be resident citizens of the State. For the purposes of this Paragraph, "control" means exercising the power to make policy decisions and "operate" means being actively involved in the day-to-day management of the business.

(14) "Recovery program" means the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Program.

(15) "State" means the state of Louisiana.

(16) "Treasurer" means the state treasurer of Louisiana.

Acts 2020, No. 311, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:97.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 97.2
Declaration of purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Subpart is to create a fund to provide a mechanism by which the presence of friable asbestos-containing materials in state buildings in this state can be detected, analyzed, controlled, managed, maintained, and abated, if necessary.

Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 140, §1, eff. May 5, 1998.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1798.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1798.3
Functions of corporation
Status: in_force

There is hereby authorized the formation and incorporation of a nonprofit corporation, the purpose of which shall be the financing and acquisition, purchase, construction, renovation, improvement, or expansion of public facilities for lease to the state of Louisiana.

Acts 1989, No. 805, §1, eff. July 8, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1593 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1593
Methods of source selection
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise authorized by law, all state contracts shall be awarded by one of the following methods:

(1) R.S. 39:1594, competitive sealed bids.

(2) R.S. 39:1595, competitive sealed proposals.

(3) R.S. 39:1596, small purchases.

(4) R.S. 39:1597, sole source.

(5) R.S. 39:1598, emergency procurements.

(6) R.S. 39:1600, other procurement methods:

(a) Unstable market conditions.

(b) Group purchasing.

(c) Used equipment.

(d) Reverse auctions.

(e) Negotiation of noncompetitive contracts.

(f) Invitation to negotiate.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 1988, No. 851, §1; Acts 1997, No. 3, §4, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 1997, No. 692, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1032, §13; Acts 2004, No. 433, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2004; Acts 2005, No. 178, §2, eff. June 28, 2005; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015; Acts 2024, No. 734, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1612 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1612
Cost-reimbursement contracts
Status: in_force

A. Determination required prior to use. No cost-reimbursement prime contract may be made unless it is determined in writing in accordance with regulations that such contract is likely to be less costly to the state than any other type of contract or that it is impracticable to obtain supplies, services, or major repairs of the kind or quality required except under such a contract.

B. Reimbursement of costs. All cost-reimbursement contracts shall contain a provision that only costs recognized as allowable in accordance with cost principles set forth in regulations will be reimbursable.

C. Prior notice requirement concerning use of cost-reimbursement type subcontract. Each contractor under a cost-reimbursement type contract shall give notice, as provided for in the contract, before entering into (1) a cost-reimbursement type subcontract or (2) any other type of subcontract involving more than ten thousand dollars or ten percent of the estimated cost of the prime contract.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1532 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1532
Reporting requirements
Status: in_force

A. The commissioner of administration shall prepare such reports as he finds necessary for the proper conduct of his duties.

B. In the fiscal year immediately following a regular session of the legislature in which the legislature has enacted appropriations from the state general fund for the payment of specific judgments or claims, the commissioner of administration shall report to the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance on the fifteenth day of October and the fifteenth day of February regarding the payment status of all such claims and judgments, including but not limited to the last offer made by the plaintiff as well as the last offer made by the state of Louisiana and the final cost of each judgment.

Added by Acts 1980, No. 520, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 1992, No. 385, §1; Acts 2008, No. 843, §1, eff. July 1, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1657 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1657
Specifications prepared by architects and engineers
Status: in_force

The requirements of this Part regarding the purposes and nonrestrictiveness of specifications shall apply to all specifications, including but not limited to those proposed by architects, engineers, designers, and draftsmen for public contracts.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2165.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2165.1
Legislative intent and purpose
Status: in_force

The legislature intends the attorney general and private citizens of Louisiana to be agents of this state with the ability, authority, and resources to pursue civil monetary penalties or other remedies to protect the fiscal and programmatic integrity of oil spill relief programs in Louisiana from persons who engage in fraud, misrepresentation, abuse, or other ill practices, as set forth in this Chapter, and obtain funds, property, or other compensation to which they are not entitled.

Acts 2010, No. 658, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.34 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.34
Bankruptcy
Status: in_force

Prior to the date that is one year and one day after which the corporation no longer has any bonds outstanding, the corporation is prohibited from filing and shall have no authority to file a voluntary petition under the federal bankruptcy code as it may, from time to time, be in effect, and neither any public official nor any organization, entity or other person shall authorize the corporation to be or to become a debtor under the federal bankruptcy code during such period. The provisions of this Section shall be part of any contractual obligation owed to the holders of bonds issued under this Subpart. Any such contractual obligation shall not subsequently be modified by state law during the period of the contractual obligation, and the state of Louisiana hereby covenants with the holders that the state shall not limit or alter the denial of authority under this Section during the period referred to in the first sentence hereof.

Acts 2007, No. 249, §1, eff. July 6, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:560.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 560.1
Gas utility districts
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of gas utility districts may sell, lease or mortgage and incur debt and issue bonds of such districts for the purpose of paying all or part of the cost of acquiring, constructing, improving, or extending any properties or facilities authorized by law to be maintained and operated by such districts.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 416, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.44 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.44
Louisiana Main Street Recovery Program
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Program to be administered by the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of this Subpart.

B. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "recovery fund", to provide economic support to eligible Louisiana businesses for costs incurred in connection with COVID-19, including business interruptions caused by forced closures or restricted operations resulting from voluntary closures instituted to promote social distancing, and resulting decreased customer demand, cleaning or disinfection, and providing personal protective equipment. Expenses reimbursed by business interruption insurance or disallowed by the CARES Act or any guidance or regulation issued by the United States Department of the Treasury shall not be an eligible expense.

C.(1) Pursuant to legislative appropriation, the treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to deposit in and credit to the recovery fund three hundred million dollars of the federal monies allocated to Louisiana pursuant to Section 5001 of the CARES Act. The monies in the recovery fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on the investment of monies in the recovery fund shall be deposited in and credited to the recovery fund. Except as provided in this Section and applicable federal guidelines, unexpended and unencumbered monies in the recovery fund shall remain in the recovery fund. Monies in the recovery fund shall be appropriated and used solely as provided in this Section.

(2) The treasurer shall transfer and deposit twenty-five million dollars of the monies in the recovery fund to the Critical Infrastructure Workers Hazard Pay Rebate Fund in the state treasury.

D. Up to five percent of the monies initially deposited in the recovery fund shall be appropriated to the treasurer for use in Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 to develop procedures for the administration of and for the costs of administering the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Program. Such expenses may include costs for the treasurer and the legislative auditor for work performed in execution of the program. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the treasurer may enter into consulting services, professional services, and information and technology services contracts for the purpose of the procurement of any goods or services necessary to implement and expedite the distribution of funds appropriated for the recovery program as emergency procurements exempt from the provisions of the Louisiana Procurement Code and corresponding rules and regulations. The cost of such contracts shall be an administrative expense of the recovery program.

E. All remaining monies in the recovery fund, after providing for administrative expenses, shall be appropriated for grants to eligible businesses that submit applications pursuant to this Section provided that any grant programs have been approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

F.(1) No later than June 20, 2020, the treasurer shall submit a proposal for distribution of grants available through the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Program to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget for approval prior to any disbursement. The proposal shall contain recommendations from the treasurer and shall reflect the work product of any contract consultants and the legislative auditor. The proposal shall include details of the program, including the amount of each grant, the purpose of the grant, the category of recipients of each grant, the number of eligible recipients, documentation required for receipt of a grant and the planned method of distribution. Any proposal submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget shall contain recommended proposals to address, within the first twenty-one days, the needs of eligible businesses that meet all of the following criteria:

(a) The eligible business did not receive a United States Small Business Administration-Guaranty Paycheck Protection Program loan or a United States Small Business Administration Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Advance.

(b) The eligible business did not receive and has not been awarded reimbursement under any other federal program for the expenses that will be reimbursed by a grant under this Section.

(c) The eligible business did not receive compensation from an insurance company for the interruption of business.

(2) The proposal shall next address the needs of eligible businesses after the initial twenty-one-day period.

G. The treasurer shall develop application forms to be used in operation of the recovery program.

H. In no event shall any grant exceed fifteen thousand dollars.

I. The treasurer shall work with the Department of Revenue to verify applicant tax information and with the Department of Education to promote applications by childcare organizations.

J. Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, the treasurer shall ensure that within the first sixty days of the recovery program no less than forty million dollars in grants, exclusive of administrative expenses, shall be awarded to minority business enterprises.

K. Each recipient of a grant shall provide a certification, on a form developed by the treasurer, signed by the authorized chief executive of the eligible business, as defined in the program approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, that the proposed use of the funds is consistent with the CARES Act. The certification shall also provide that the business shall hold the State harmless and indemnify the State in the event that payments were misappropriated, converted, and/or spent for any purpose other than those authorized by and in accordance with the CARES Act as determined by any executive, administrative, or judicial body of competent jurisdiction.

L. Within fifteen calendar days after receiving a submission pursuant to this Section, the treasurer shall review and, if the grant is eligible under the provisions of this Section and the procedures developed by the treasurer and approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the treasurer may approve the grant, funds appropriated for verified claims shall be disbursed by the treasurer within five business days of the approval.

M. Any claims for expenses incurred after December 30, 2020, or submitted to the treasurer after January 31, 2021, shall be ineligible for payment pursuant to the provisions of the CARES Act.

N. No later than the fifteenth day of each month, the treasurer shall submit a report to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget detailing the number of grant submissions, the number of grants awarded, the amount of each grant awarded, the purpose of the grant, the recipient of each grant, the number of eligible recipients who have requested a grant and have not received an award, and the obligated and unobligated balances in the recovery fund, and the average time for disbursing funds to each recipient of a grant.

O. No later than July 1, 2020, the treasurer shall announce the date the program shall begin.

P. Notice of the recovery program, and the availability of awards from the recovery fund shall be provided to the commissioner to be published on the web pages of each department in the executive branch, the main pages for the legislative website, and in statewide news outlets at least ten days to the beginning of the program.

Q. Any unobligated balance in the fund on June 30, 2021, shall be transferred to the State Coronavirus Relief Fund.

Acts 2020, No. 311, §1, eff. June 12, 2020; Acts 2020, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 10, §6, eff. July 9, 2020, and see Act; Acts 2021, No. 114, §9, eff. June 7, 2021.

NOTE: See Acts 2020, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 10, §13, re: eff. date of Paragraph (C)(2).
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:126 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 126
Change orders
Status: in_force

The prior approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget is required for one or more change orders that cause an excess in the aggregate of two hundred fifty thousand dollars per month for a project undertaken pursuant to an appropriation in the Capital Outlay Act. In addition, a change order for a project undertaken pursuant to this Part shall also be subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration. Any change order in excess of fifty thousand dollars but less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget for review but shall not require committee approval.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 1997, No. 924, §1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 2008, No. 859, §1; Acts 2014, No. 748, §2, eff. June 19, 2014; Acts 2025, No. 183, §1, eff. June 8, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:361 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 361
Policy for use of state owned vehicles; establishment of fleet management program
Status: in_force

A. The Division of Administration shall establish, develop, and administer a program for the management of motor vehicles used by state employees. The purpose of this program shall be to provide motor vehicle and related services to the state and to maintain safe, dependable, and cost effective transportation for state employees who require the use of passenger vehicles in the performance of their job responsibilities. This program shall be known as the fleet management program.

B. The objective of the fleet management program shall be to manage state provided transportation so as to reduce its costs and increase its benefit to the state by establishing, reviewing, and revising statewide policies, specifications, and standards for the operation of the program; monitoring agency and vendor compliance with established policies, specifications, and standards; planning and evaluating the financial results of operating and maintaining state fleet vehicles; identifying, evaluating, and adopting techniques, methods, and procedures to maximize cost effectiveness while maintaining proper vehicle availability and utilization; and receiving, investigating, and resolving all reports of abuse or misuse of fleet vehicles.

C. The scope of the fleet management program and associated statewide policies, specifications, and standards shall include and be limited to:

(1) All vehicles which are owned or leased by any agency, board, commission, council, department, or other entity of the executive branch of state government; every vehicle owned and leased by any state college or university; and every vehicle owned or leased by the offices and entities of the judicial and legislative branches of government.

(2) Any motorized licensed vehicle with four or more wheels used primarily for surface transportation of passengers or for delivery of small equipment and supplies.

D. Every vehicle in compliance with the specifications set forth in Subsection C of this Section shall be known as a fleet vehicle and the total of all vehicles shall be known as the vehicle fleet.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 142, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 638, §1; Acts 1986, No. 532, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:643 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 643
Continuation of Parish One Cent Gasoline Fund
Status: in_force

The Parish One Cent Gasoline Fund as established and provided for in R.S. 47:727(B)(2) shall be continued and shall not be terminated or reduced as to any parish which had pledged moneys accruing to its credit in and paid over to it out of the Fund to the payment of bonds, notes or certificates so long as any such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness are outstanding.

Acts 1970, No. 101, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:785 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 785
Voters shall be registered where election is held
Status: in_force

All property taxpayers voting at the election shall be registered voters of the parish, ward or municipality in which the election is held.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2008 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2008
State agency initiative coordinators and reporting
Status: in_force

A. Each agency of the state shall participate in the Louisiana Initiative for Small Entrepreneurships by complying with all provisions of this Chapter, administrative law related thereto, and any other requirements of the commissioner.

B. Each agency shall maintain current data relating to its procurement and public contract activities with respect to the requirements of this Chapter. The agency shall be prepared to provide to the commissioner of administration, upon request, the total number and dollar value of all contracts awarded to small entrepreneurships in that fiscal year, as well as contracts which provided a good faith small entrepreneurship subcontracting plan.

C. The initiative coordinator shall be the person serving in the position of undersecretary for a state department or business manager for a state agency. The coordinator shall undertake any duties the agency head deems necessary to ensure that the agency achieves its maximum potential with respect to usage of small entrepreneurships in its procurements and public contracts. Specifically, the coordinator shall be responsible for all of the following activities:

(1) Collection and reporting of agency data to the commissioner.

(2) Coordination of forums to be held at the agency at which small entrepreneurships and contractors making a good faith effort to subcontract with small entrepreneurships shall be invited to deliver technical and business presentations demonstrating their capability to do business with the agency. Agency participants in such forums shall be those senior managers and procurement personnel who administer procurements and public contracts relevant to the small entrepreneurship. The forums shall be conducted at least annually.

Acts 2005, No. 440, §1, eff. July 11, 2005.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:408 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 408
Surplus funds of legislative auditor; remittance and disbursement
Status: in_force

All sums of money allowed to, deducted or withheld by the legislative auditor, which may exceed his needs and requirements, shall be remitted by the legislative auditor to the governor to be disbursed by him for the purpose of defraying costs of investigation by legislative committees and for the purpose of supporting any and all expenses which may be necessary for the work of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, for the work of preserving law and order and for the expenses and use of the state militia.

Acts 2001, No. 1102, §8.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1569.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1569.1
Contract administration
Status: in_force

A. Upon entering into a professional, personal, consulting, or social service contract, the using agency shall have full responsibility for the diligent administration and monitoring of the contract. The state chief procurement officer may require the using agency to report at any time on the status of any such outstanding contracts to which the using agency is a party.

B. After completion of performance under a professional, personal, consulting, or social service contract, the using agency shall prepare a final report on the contract which shall include an evaluation of contract performance and an assessment of the utility of the final product. This report shall be delivered to the state chief procurement officer within sixty days after completion of performance and shall be retained in the official contract file. Reports not submitted to the office of state procurement within the sixty-day period shall be delinquent. The report shall include at least the following:

(1) The name of the agency official or officials responsible for monitoring the contract and for final agency acceptance of the contract deliverables.

(2) The contractor, contract amount, contract cost basis, and contract timetable which shall reflect both the proposed and actual work initiation and completion dates.

(3) Any contract modifications.

(4) A listing of the contract deliverables, inclusive of specific products and services, and whether all such deliverables were satisfactorily and timely completed.

(5) An itemization of any problems encountered with respect to the execution of the contract.

(6) An assessment of the utility of the contract deliverables.

C. Final evaluation reports required by this Section for contracts in amounts of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or greater shall also be submitted to the legislative auditor.

D. No contract for professional, personal, consulting, or social services shall be entered into by a using agency with any contractor for which a delinquent final evaluation report remains outstanding for a contract with such using agency.

E. A report of all multiyear contracts shall be provided to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget no later than ninety days after the end of each fiscal year.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 772, §1. Acts 1985, No. 673, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1424, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1600 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1600
Other procurement methods
Status: in_force

A. Unstable market conditions. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter to the contrary and in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, the state chief procurement officer or director of purchasing at a college or university, with the approval of the commissioner, may procure by solicitation requiring written response from at least three bona fide bidders under the provisions of this Section, when it is determined that market conditions are unstable and the competitive bid process is not conducive for best pricing for products, supplies and other materials. The provisions of this Section shall be applicable only if the value of the contract is fifty thousand dollars or less and only after sufficient documentation is provided to the commissioner by the director to substantiate the unstable market.

B. Group purchasing. (1) The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center may contract with a group purchasing organization through a competitive request for proposals process for medical and laboratory supplies and medical equipment required for the purpose of diagnosis or direct treatment of a patient by a health care provider in a hospital or clinic setting.

(2) Prior to the award of such contract, the proposed contract shall be approved by the commissioner of administration provided the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center makes a written determination that prices from the group purchasing organization are fair market prices and that the contract is in the best interest of the state.

(3) No later than sixty days after a purchasing agency submits a proposed contract to the commissioner for approval, the commissioner shall notify the purchasing agency in writing as to whether the proposed contract has been approved or rejected. If the commissioner does not timely notify the purchasing agency of his decision, the request for approval on the proposed contract shall be deemed to have been approved. The commissioner shall not unreasonably withhold his approval.

C. Used equipment. (1) Any agency covered by this Chapter may procure any equipment which is used or which has been previously purchased by an individual or corporation where the agency proposing to make such procurement can present satisfactory information to the procurement officer to illustrate that the procurement of said equipment is cost effective to the state.

(2)(a) The used equipment shall be purchased by the head of the agency, college, or university, within the price range set by the state chief procurement officer, or the directors of purchasing at colleges and universities, in a statement of written approval for the purchase which must be obtained by the head of the agency, college, or university, prior to the purchase.

(b) The head of the agency, college, or university, shall certify in writing to the state chief procurement officer, or the directors of purchasing at colleges and universities, all of the following:

(i) The price for which the used equipment may be obtained.

(ii) The plan for maintenance and repair of the equipment and the cost thereof.

(iii) The savings that will accrue to the state because of the purchase of the used equipment.

(iv) The fact that following the procedures set out in the Louisiana Procurement Code will result in the loss of the opportunity to purchase the equipment.

D. Reverse auction. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subpart A of this Part, with the approval of the state chief procurement officer that the best interests of the state would be served, a reverse auction may be utilized for the acquisition of materials, supplies, services of any type, products, equipment, or consulting services of any monetary amount, including small purchases.

(2) Prior to the use of any reverse auction, the state chief procurement officer may require in the solicitation language that:

(a) Vendors shall register before the opening date and time, and as part of the registration, require that the vendors agree to any terms and conditions and other requirements of the solicitation.

(b) Vendors shall be prequalified prior to placing bids and allow only bidders who are prequalified to submit bids.

(c) The solicitation shall designate an opening date and time and the closing date and time. The closing date and time may be fixed or remain open depending on the nature of the item being bid.

(d) At the opening date and time, the using agency shall begin accepting online bids and continue accepting bids until the bid is officially closed. Registered bidders shall be allowed to lower the price of their bid below the lowest bid posted on the Internet until the closing date and time.

(e) Bidders' identities shall not be revealed during the bidding process; only the successively lower prices, ranks, scores, and related bid details shall be revealed.

(f) All bids shall be posted electronically and updated on a real-time basis.

(g) The using agency shall retain the right to cancel the solicitation if it determines that it is in the agency's or the state's best interest.

(h) The using agency shall retain its existing authority to determine the criteria that shall be used as a basis for making awards.

(3) Adequate public notice for the purchase of materials, supplies, services, equipment, or consulting services using a reverse auction shall be given. The advertisement or notice shall conform to the requirements for public notice of sealed bidding or small purchases as applicable, pursuant respectively to R.S. 39:1594 or 1596, such that the extent, timing, location, form, and duration of public notice activities for the reverse auction process shall be fully consistent with the public notice activities required for a sealed bid or small purchase of equivalent value.

(4) The office of state procurement shall report annually to the legislature by September first, on the use of reverse auctions and any savings achieved.

E. Negotiation of noncompetitive contracts.

The head of the using agency or the agency procurement officer shall negotiate with the highest qualified persons for sole source or emergency procurements or for professional, personal, or those consulting services qualifying under R.S. 39:1621(A), or those social services qualifying under R.S. 39:1619(B) at compensation which the head of the using agency determines in writing to be fair and reasonable to the state. In making this determination, the head of the using agency shall take into account, in the following order of importance, the professional or technical competence of proposers, the technical merits of proposals, and the compensation for which the services are to be rendered, including fee. Negotiation of consulting services not qualifying under R.S. 39:1621(A) or social services not qualifying under R.S. 39:1619(B) shall be conducted in accordance with R.S. 39:1595(B).

Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015; Acts 2017, No. 226, §1; Acts 2020, No. 273, §2, eff. June 11, 2020; Acts 2021, No. 102, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:199 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 199
Methods of procurement
Status: in_force

A. The office of technology services, through the state procurement office, may procure information technology systems and information technology services by a request for proposals to conform with the following requirements:

(1) Public notice of the request for proposals shall be the same as for an invitation to bid as provided in R.S. 39:1594(C).

(2)(a) The request for proposals shall indicate the relative importance of all evaluation factors and shall clearly define the work, service, or solution to be provided under the contract, the functional specifications, the criteria to be used in evaluating the proposals, and the time frames within which the work must be completed or the service provided.

(b) For information systems lease contracts, the request for proposals shall require that proposals contain a declaration as to the maximum price for which the system may be purchased following the termination of the lease contract. No other basis of evaluation shall be used except that set out in the request for proposals.

(3) The office of technology services shall evaluate all proposals to determine the proposal most advantageous to the state, taking into consideration all evaluation criteria set forth in the request for proposals, and shall make a recommendation of award to the state procurement office.

(4) The office of technology services may request that the state procurement office reject all proposals when it is deemed that such action is in the best interest of the state.

B. The office of technology services may procure information technology systems and information technology services in accordance with the law or regulations, or both, which govern the state procurement office, the division of administration.

C. Method for procuring maintenance services. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Part, any agency may procure maintenance services for information technology equipment without the need for competitive bidding. Such procurement must have the written advance approval of the office of state procurement and shall not be for a price greater than the vendor's published price.

D. Method for procuring software and software maintenance and support services. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Part, any agency may procure data processing software, software maintenance, and support services without the need for competitive bidding. Such procurement must have the written advance approval of the office of state procurement and shall not be for a price greater than the vendor's published price.

(2) Additionally, any agency seeking to procure a new contract, a contract extension of an existing contract, or any other contract modification for software, software maintenance, and support services shall show evidence that the price received or negotiated is the lowest available price by exhibiting prices that may appear in a catalog, price list, schedule, on the Internet, or other form that:

(a) Is regularly maintained by a vendor or other contractor.

(b) Is either published or otherwise available for inspection by customers.

(c) Is available through inquiries with other states or local governments using similar products and services.

(d) Is available through statements of prices on the Internet and is currently or was last made to a significant number of buyers constituting the general buying public for the software or services involved.

(3) In the event that the lowest available price can not be obtained in the form or source as specified in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, the agency seeking to procure a new contract, a contract extension of an existing contract, or any other contract modification for software, software maintenance, and support services shall require the vendor to certify in writing that the price received is the lowest price available to other states or local governments for similar products and services at the time the quote is submitted.

(4) The procurement support team shall develop and deliver to the office of state procurement and the office of technology services proposed rules establishing guidelines for procurement activities under this Part. Upon approval of the office of technology services, the office of state procurement shall promulgate rules in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

E. Method for procuring information technology equipment, software, and maintenance services for public colleges and universities. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Part, any public college or university may procure, through its purchasing officer, information technology equipment, software, and maintenance services without the advance approval of the office of state procurement when a single expenditure for such materials or combined materials and services does not exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars.

F.(1) The commissioner of administration shall for each fiscal year designate a goal for awarding to small businesses a portion of anticipated total state procurement of information technology equipment and software. For purposes of this Subsection, "small businesses" shall be defined as an employer with fifty or fewer employees. The commissioner may divide the procurements so designated into contract award units of economically feasible production runs in order to facilitate offers or bids from small businesses. In making his annual designation of goals for small business procurements, the commissioner shall attempt to vary the included procurements so that a variety of information technology equipment and software produced by different small businesses shall be a goal each year. The failure of the commissioner to establish a goal for particular procurements shall not be deemed to prohibit or discourage small businesses from seeking the procurement award through the normal solicitation and bidding processes. The commissioner of administration shall report to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and to the House Committee on Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs on the program established in this Subsection each year prior to the submission of the executive budget. Such report shall include the goals and awards from the previous year, a list of unsuccessful awards as described in Paragraph (4) of this Subsection, and the goals for the upcoming year.

(2) Contract procedure. The commissioner shall establish a contract procedure in accordance with law, for the awarding of a procurement contract under the goals established in this Subsection. Surety bonds guaranteed by the United States Small Business Administration shall be acceptable security for an award under this Subsection.

(3) Responsibility of bidder or offeror. Before making a goal award, the commissioner shall evaluate whether the small business scheduled to receive the award is able to perform the set-aside contract. This determination shall include consideration of production and financial capacity and technical competence.

(4) Award of contracts after unsuccessful goal procedures. In the event that the provisions of this Subsection do not operate to extend a contract award to a small business, the award shall be placed pursuant to the existing solicitation and award provisions established by law. The commissioner shall thereupon designate a goal for small businesses' additional state procurements of information technology equipment and software corresponding in approximate value to the contract unable to be awarded pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection.

(5) Conflict with other code provisions. All laws and rules pertaining to solicitations, bid evaluations, contract awards, and other procurement matters not inconsistent with the provisions of this Subsection shall apply to procurements set-aside for small businesses. In the event of conflict with other rules, the provisions of this Subsection shall govern.

Acts 1981, No. 628, §1, eff. July 20, 1981; Acts 1983, No. 478, §2, eff. July 6, 1983; Acts 1985, No. 698, §1; Acts 2001, No. 772, §3, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2006, No. 513, §1; Acts 2014, No. 708, §1, eff. July 1, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 712, §2, eff. July 1, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 864, §§4 and 5; Acts 2020, No. 273, §2, eff. June 11, 2020.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1762 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1762
Legislative findings and intent
Status: in_force

The intent of the legislature in enacting this Chapter is to provide a cost effective means of acquiring essential equipment for the operation of state government. Commercial leases or renting agreements as well as lump sum purchases of equipment have created a burden on the finances of the state, and it has been determined that, pursuant to this Chapter, essential equipment may be obtained using an equipment-lease-purchase contract in conjunction with tax-exempt financing and earnings on investments by nonprofit lessors resulting in lower net equipment costs to the state.

Acts 1985, No. 758, §2, eff. July 17, 1985.

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1985, NO. 758, §§3, 5 AND 6.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1353 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1353
Adoption of budget amendments
Status: in_force

A. Within seven days after receipt of the initial report, the governing authority of the political subdivision shall adopt in an open meeting an appropriate budget adoption instrument which contains the comprehensive budget, or amendments to the original comprehensive budget of the political subdivision, as proposed in the fiscal administrator's report, and only those revisions which do not make it reasonably certain that the political subdivision will fail to make timely debt service payments or which do not make it reasonably certain that the political subdivision will fail to have sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or, in the case of a city, parish, or other local, public school board, which do not make it reasonably certain that the school board will fail to resolve its status as financially at risk as that status has been defined by rule by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education during the remainder of the current fiscal year and the fiscal year following.

B. If the governing authority of the political subdivision fails to adopt such budget or budget amendments, or if the revisions made by the governing authority of the political subdivision do not meet the approval of the fiscal administrator, the attorney general shall take a rule against the political subdivision in the manner provided for in R.S. 39:1351 to show cause why the court should not order the adoption and the implementation of the budget without the revisions disapproved by the fiscal administrator. The court shall order the adoption and implementation of the budget proposed by the fiscal administrator as revised by the governing authority of the political subdivision, except for those revisions which the court finds will make it reasonably certain that the political subdivision will fail to make timely debt service payments or reasonably certain to fail to have sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or in the case of a city, parish, or other local public school board reasonably certain to fail to resolve its status as financially at risk.

Acts 1990, No. 532, §1; Acts 2005, No. 7, §2, eff. May 27, 2005; Acts 2020, No. 358, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1771 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1771
Approval by the legislature, State Bond Commission; rules and regulations by the Division of Administration
Status: in_force

A. No equipment-lease-purchase contract may be effected under the provisions of this Chapter unless the prior written approval of the form of the lease is obtained from the State Bond Commission and the commissioner of administration. Equipment to be included as the subject of an equipment-lease-purchase contract hereunder shall be approved by the Division of Administration and included in the executive budget as provided in Part II of Chapter 1 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and shall be approved by the legislature in the General Appropriation Act. Substitutions and deletions of equipment to be leased shall be authorized upon recommendation by the Division of Administration, provided that such substitution or deletion shall have the prior written approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

B. The Division of Administration shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to the proper and efficient implementation of the provisions of this Chapter.

Acts 1985, No. 758, §2, eff. July 17, 1985.

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1985, NO. 758, §§3, 5 AND 6.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1405.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1405.2
Payments in lieu of ad valorem taxes for certain bonds
Status: in_force

The State Bond Commission shall not issue any bonds or approve the issuance of any tax exempt bonds of any public entity when the project beneficiary is an entity whose property would otherwise be subject to ad valorem taxation and when the terms of such bonds or any agreements related thereto provide that no payments shall be made by that project beneficiary in lieu of ad valorem taxes, unless sufficient evidence is presented to the State Bond Commission that each affected tax recipient parish and municipal governing authority and school board has been notified and given the opportunity to comment in a public hearing upon any proposal which would waive such payments in lieu of property taxes.

Acts 1986, No. 529, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:354 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 354
Authority to administer oaths
Status: in_force

The commissioner of administration shall have authority to administer oaths required and allowed by law in all matters touching the duties of his office.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:33.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 33.1
Determination of expenditure limit
Status: in_force

A. The commissioner of administration shall submit a calculation for the expenditure limit for the ensuing fiscal year to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget no later than thirty-five days prior to each regular session.

B.(1) The expenditure limit for the ensuing fiscal year shall be the expenditure limit for the current fiscal year plus an amount equal to that limit times the growth factor if the growth factor is positive.

(2) The growth factor is defined as the average annual percentage rate of change of personal income for Louisiana as defined and reported by the United States Department of Commerce, or its successor agency, for the three calendar years prior to the fiscal year for which the limit is calculated.

(3) The figures used for the calculation of the growth factor shall be those actual or estimated figures most recently reported by the United States Department of Commerce at the time the expenditure limit is submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

(4) The annual percentage rate of change of personal income for the calendar year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the expenditure limit is calculated shall be derived by:

(a) Computing the simple average of the available quarterly total personal income estimates for that calendar year.

(b) Dividing that result by the reported annual estimate of total personal income for the calendar year that is two years prior to the fiscal year for which the limit is calculated.

(c) Subtracting 1.0 from the result obtained in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph.

C. After review by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, or its designated staff, the commissioner of administration shall determine the state general fund and designated funds to include in the calculation of the expenditure limit in accordance with Subsection D of this Section.

D. For purposes of this Section and Article VII, Section 10(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana, "the state general fund and dedicated funds" means all money required to be deposited in the state treasury, except that money the origin of which is:

(1) The federal government.

(2) Self-generated collections by any entity subject to the policy and management authority established by Article VIII, Sections 5 through 7 of the Constitution of Louisiana.

(3) A transfer from another state agency, board, or commission.

E. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to or affect funds allocated by Article VII, Section 4, Paragraphs (D) and (E) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

Acts 1997, No. 1149, §1, eff. June 1, 1997; Acts 2008, No. 734, §1, eff. July 6, 2008; Acts 2020, No. 271, §1, see Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:197 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 197
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this Part, the following words and phrases shall be defined as follows:

(1) "Agency" shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as provided in R.S. 36:3(1).

(2) "Competitive sealed bidding" means a method of procurement which strictly follows the requirements set forth in Chapter 17 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 except for such variations as are specifically established herein.

(3) "Consulting service" shall have the same meaning as provided in R.S. 39:1556.

(4) "Direct order contract" means a contract which covers a specific class of information technology equipment, software, or services, or a contract which covers a single, specific class of information technology equipment, software, or services, and all features associated with that class and through which state agencies may procure the item of hardware specified by issuing a purchase order under the terms of the contract, without the necessity of further competitive bidding.

(5) "Emergency acquisitions or rentals of information technology" means a method of procurement utilized when there exists a threat to the public health, welfare, safety or public property.

(6) "Financed lease" means a contract or lease of an information technology system made pursuant to a solicitation for procurement, according to which:

(a) The successful proposer, as lessor, shall retain title to the information technology system, although the using agency, as lessee, shall take possession of the system.

(b) Payments shall be made by the lessee according to a payment schedule to the lessor.

(c) The lessor may transfer its designation as lessor to its choice of financial institution; however, such transfer shall have no effect on the contracted payment schedule, contracted interest rate, or any other right or obligation of either the lessee or lessor under the contract.

(7) "Fiscal intermediary services" means an information technology system including but not limited to electronic visit verification, third-party liability, financial management, provider management system, care management, healthcare claims and encounter processing, payment integrity, data warehousing, and pharmacy benefit management, that is used for managing all or part of a Medicaid program.

(8) "Information technology service contract" means a contract for the procurement of information technology services to include but not be limited to software as a service, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, application hosting services, or installation and configuration services.

(9) "Information technology systems", which shall include information technology equipment and related services, and "information technology services" are limited to the equipment and services and means to provide:

(a) Server systems and services.

(b) Storage systems and services.

(c) Information technology security systems and services.

(d) Related peripheral systems and services.

(e) Software and software application services.

(f) Infrastructure and platform systems and services.

(g) Desktop computing systems and services.

(h) Geographic information systems and services.

(i) Mobile device systems and services.

(j) Any and all systems and services based on emerging and future information technologies relating to Subparagraphs (a) through (i) of this Paragraph.

(10) "Information technology systems contract" means a contract for the procurement of information technology systems including equipment and related services to include but not be limited to installation and maintenance.

(11) "Information technology systems lease contract" means a contract between a supplier of information technology systems and the division of administration, office of technology services, or the procuring agency, through which information technology systems may be procured for a term which shall not exceed ten years. The contract may be either an operating lease, installment purchase, or a financed lease without a balloon payment.

(12) "Installment-payment contract" means a contract which amends and is incorporated into a purchase contract and is utilized to finance with the vendor the purchase of certain equipment, including but not limited to information technology, desktop computers, server systems, storage systems, mobile computing systems, peripheral systems, software, related services, and related supplies or a contract which itself alone is utilized to procure such equipment from a contractor and provides therein for payment in a set of installments over a fixed period of time. An installment payment contract shall arrange for a method of financing with payment being made in a set of installment payments over a fixed period of time in accordance with the provisions of the contract and shall provide for the vendor to deliver title to the governmental body in accordance with such terms.

(13) "Invitation to negotiate" means a written or electronically posted solicitation for competitive sealed replies to select one or more vendors with which to commence negotiations for the procurement of information technology systems, information technology services, software, professional services, or consulting services.

(14) "Master agreement" means an agreement between the state and a vendor which specifies the general terms and conditions under which parties will routinely conduct procurement business.

(15) "Multiyear contract" means contracts for a term of more than one year, not to exceed ten years and includes contracts between a supplier of information technology systems, information technology services, and software and the state or a state agency through which information technology systems, information technology services, and software, except for fiscal intermediary services, may be leased or purchased for a term of more than one fiscal year, but the term shall not exceed sixty months.

(16) "Procurement" means the selling, buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining information technology systems, information technology services, or its related software, as well as all activities engaged in, resulting in, or expected to result in the selling, buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining information technology systems, information technology services, or its related software by the state or its agencies.

(17) "Professional service" shall have the same meaning as provided in R.S. 39:1556.

(18) "Purchase contract" means a contract that is utilized for the direct acquisition of certain equipment, including but not limited to information technology, desktop computers, server systems, storage systems, mobile computing systems, peripheral systems, software, and related services. Such contract shall contain the terms and conditions pertinent to the rights and obligations of both the state and the vendor. Any purchase by direct acquisition under the terms of the purchase contract will require one single payment, and title shall pass to the state upon the date of purchase as defined in the contract unless the purchase contract is amended by an installment payment contract.

(19) "Related services" means and is limited to service activities affecting the maintenance of information technology equipment or software and the providing of fiscal intermediary services and shall also include those consulting services ancillary to the procurement of information technology hardware or software that would otherwise be governed by the provisions of professional, personal, consulting, and social services procurement in Chapter 17 of Subtitle III of this Title. Except for consulting services ancillary to the procurement of fiscal intermediary services by cooperative purchasing, such consulting services contracts shall be limited to the lesser of twenty percent of the procurement amount or two hundred fifty thousand dollars.

(20) "Rental contract" means and includes contracts between a supplier of information technology equipment and the state, or a state agency, through which information technology equipment may be leased for a term not to exceed one fiscal year, such contracts to include the right of termination by the state upon notice of ninety days or less, and to be renewable, upon review and recommendations of the procurement support team and review and approval by the office of technology services, with such renewal to be limited to one additional term not to exceed twelve months.

(21) "Software" means computer programs and documentation essential to and necessary for an information technology system or information technology service to perform productive operations.

(22) "Utility" means any information technology service provided by the office of technology services and used in the essential operations of a state agency, such as system authentication, data replication, and system utilization and performance management.

Acts 1981, No. 628, §1, eff. July 20, 1981. Amended by Acts 1982, No. 855, §1; Acts 1983, No. 478, §2, eff. July 6, 1983; Acts 1984, No. 754, §1, eff. July 13, 1984; Acts 1985, No. 995, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 2012, No. 185, §1; Acts 2014, No. 712, §2, eff. July 1, 2014; Acts 2021, No. 347, §1, eff. June 15, 2021; Acts 2024, No. 734, §2.

{{NOTE: See Acts 1985, No. 995, §3.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:98.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 98.5
Millennium Leverage Fund
Status: in_force

A. Millennium Leverage Fund. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the legislature may provide, by passage of a specific legislative instrument by a favorable vote of the elected members of each house of the legislature, for the deposit of all or a portion of monies received by the state as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement, hereinafter the "Settlement Agreement", executed November 23, 1998, and approved by Consent Decree and Final Judgment entered in the case "Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, ex rel. State of Louisiana v. Philip Morris, Incorporated, et al.", bearing Number 98-6473 on the docket of the Fourteenth Judicial District for the parish of Calcasieu, state of Louisiana; after satisfying the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, into the Millennium Leverage Fund which is hereby established as a special permanent trust fund in the state treasury. The Millennium Leverage Fund shall hereinafter be referred to as the "Leverage Fund".

B. Investment. Monies deposited in the Leverage Fund shall be invested and administered by the treasurer. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a portion of the monies in the Leverage Fund, not to exceed fifty percent, may be invested in stock. The legislature shall provide for the procedure for the investment of such monies by law. The treasurer shall contract, subject to approval of the State Bond Commission, for the management of such investments. The monies in the Leverage Fund shall be available for appropriation to pay expenses incurred in the investment and management of monies in the fund.

C. Revenue Bonds. The State Bond Commission, or its successor, may issue and sell bonds, notes, or other obligations, hereinafter "bonds" secured by a pledge of a portion of the monies received by the state as a result of the Settlement Agreement which are otherwise to be deposited in the Leverage Fund as provided in this Section. Such bonds may be issued only in amounts authorized by the legislature by two-thirds of the elected members of each house of the legislature. If settlement revenues are pledged to secure any revenue bonds issued pursuant to this Section, any portion thereof needed to pay principal, interest, or premium, if any, and other obligations incident to the issuance, security, prepayment, defeasance, and payment in respect thereof may be expended by the treasurer without the need for an appropriation provided that the prepayment or defeasance has been approved by the legislature. Bonds so issued may also be further secured by a collateralization of all or a portion of monies in the Leverage Fund. If bonds are issued subject to such a collateralization, the treasurer may pay from the Leverage Fund any principal, interest, or premium, if any, and other obligations incident to the issuance, security, prepayment, defeasance, and payment in respect thereof without the need for an appropriation provided that the prepayment or defeasance has been approved by the legislature. The net proceeds of any bonds issued pursuant to this Section shall be deposited in and credited to the Leverage Fund. Any revenue bonds issued under authority of this Section shall not be general obligation bonds secured by the full faith and credit of the state.

D. Appropriations. (1) The legislature may annually appropriate the bond proceeds credited to the Leverage Fund and all earnings, income, and realized capital gains on investment of monies in the Leverage Fund as recognized as available for appropriation in the official forecast of the Revenue Estimating Conference. The Revenue Estimating Conference shall include in its forecast of monies available for appropriation only that amount of earnings, income, and realized capital gains which are in excess of inflation as determined by the conference.

(2) Appropriations may be made only for the following purposes:

(a) Twenty-five percent shall be available for appropriation for the purposes as provided in the TOPS Fund.

(b) Twenty-five percent shall be available for appropriation for the purposes as provided in the Health Excellence Fund.

(c) Twenty-five percent shall be available for appropriation as provided in the Education Excellence Fund.

(d) Twenty-five percent shall be available for appropriation as provided in the Louisiana Fund.

(e) The amounts available for appropriation for each of the purposes contained in Subparagraphs (a) through (c) of this Paragraph may be increased, and the amount available for appropriation for the purposes of Subparagraph (d) may be decreased by a specific legislative instrument which receives a favorable vote of two-thirds of the elected members of each house of the legislature.

E. Termination. The legislature may, by passage of a specific legislative instrument by a favorable vote of the elected members of each house of the legislature, provide for the termination of deposits to the Leverage Fund. Any such termination shall be made in such a manner so as to not impair the obligation, validity, or security of any bonds issued under the authority of this Section. Upon termination, the amount of any settlement revenues over and above the amount pledged for security of any bonds issued pursuant to the authority granted in this Section, shall be deposited in and credited as provided in Article VII, Sections 10.7 and 10.8 of the Constitution of Louisiana.

NOTE: §98.5. as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.

§98.5. Repealed by Acts 2023, No. 345, §3, see Act.

Acts 1999, No. 1295, §1, eff. July 1, 2000; Acts 2023, No. 345, §3, see Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:512 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 512
Bonds negotiable and incontestable
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under this Part shall have all the qualities of negotiable paper and shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings for their issuance and sale, and shall be incontestable in the hands of bona fide purchasers or owners for value.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1683 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1683
Protest of solicitations or awards
Status: in_force

A. Scope. This Section applies to an appeal addressed to the commissioner of a decision under R.S. 39:1671(C).

B. Time limitation on filing an appeal. The aggrieved person shall file an appeal within seven days of receipt of a decision under R.S. 39:1671(C).

C. Decision. On any appeal under Subsection A of this Section, the commissioner shall decide within fourteen days whether the solicitation or award was in accordance with the constitution, statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the solicitation. Any prior determinations by the state chief procurement officer or his designee shall not be final or conclusive.

D. Notice of decision. A copy of the decision under Subsection C of this Section shall be mailed or otherwise furnished immediately to the protestant or any other party intervening.

E. Finality of decision. A decision under Subsection C of this Section shall be final and conclusive unless one of the following applies:

(1) The decision is fraudulent.

(2) The person adversely affected by the decision has timely appealed to the court in accordance with R.S. 39:1691(A). If the evidence, as reasonably interpreted, supports the commissioner's decision, then the commissioner of administration's decision is given great weight and shall not be reversed or modified in the absence of a clear showing that the decision was arbitrary or capricious.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015; Acts 2025, No. 5, §1, eff. June 11, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:742.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 742.3
Fire District No. 8; borrowing limitations; waiver; authorization
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 39:741 and 742, Fire District No. 8 in Natchitoches Parish is authorized to obligate anticipated tax revenues in excess of five years, not to exceed ten years, and to borrow in excess of seventy-five percent of their estimated tax income, for the express purpose of constructing ancillary permanent structures and financing firefighting equipment.

Acts 1990, No. 541, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:89.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 89.1
Short title
Status: in_force

This Subpart shall be known as the "Transparent Responsible Use of State Tax-dollars Act" or "T.R.U.S.T. Act".

Acts 2025, No. 467, §1, eff. June 30, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:231 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 231
Commissioner to prescribe rules governing travel and traveling expenses; use of state aircraft and other vehicles by statewide elected officials; minimum prices allowed for meals to state employees
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsection B, Subsection C, and Subsection D, the commissioner of administration, with the approval of the governor, shall, by rule or regulation, prescribe the conditions under which each of various forms of transportation may be used by state officers and employees in the discharge of the duties of their respective offices and positions in the state service and the conditions under which allowances will be granted for traveling expenses.

B. Each statewide elected official may use, at public expense, any state aircraft, automobile, or other vehicle which has been assigned to such official by the commissioner of administration for any purpose which such official deems necessary in performing the duties of his office.

C. The commissioner of administration shall not establish meal allowances for state employees at a price below two dollars and seventy-five cents for breakfast, three dollars and twenty-five cents for lunch, and five dollars for dinner.

D. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the policy and management boards of public higher education and all institutions under their jurisdiction shall not be required to report to the Division of Administration, the monthly vehicle rental reimbursements for the campuses and the monthly interviewee travel expense reimbursement. The policy and management boards and institutions under their jurisdiction shall be required to submit an annual report detailing all vehicle rental reimbursements for the campuses and all interviewee travel expense reimbursements for the preceding fiscal year.

Amended by Acts 1974, No. 591, §1; Acts 1975, No. 609, §1; Acts 1986, No. 103, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1106 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1106
Sworn statement of charges and revenues
Status: in_force

The governing authority of the political subdivision shall meet in open session on the date and at the time and place designated in the notice. It shall spread upon its minutes an itemized statement of its statutory and ordinary charges for the current year, and all of its obligations, contractual or otherwise, omitting therefrom any debt secured by special taxes, and none other. The statement shall be in writing and the correctness thereof shall be sworn to by the financial officer of the political subdivision, and, after inspection and consideration, the statement shall be approved by the members of the governing authority of the political subdivision present at the meeting.

The governing authority shall likewise spread upon its minutes an itemized statement of its current revenues which show the yearly amount of taxes to be realized, which statement shall be based upon the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the political subdivision, ascertained by the last assessment for parish or municipal purposes previous to issuing the bonds, and also such other available sources of revenue reasonably certain of collection legally. The statement shall also be in writing and the correctness thereof shall be sworn to by the financial officer of the political subdivision, and after inspection and consideration, shall be approved by the members of the governing authority of the political subdivision present at the meeting.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:325 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 325
Inventory reports; head of agency to furnish information
Status: in_force

Upon completion of the initial inventory each property manager shall submit an inventory report to the commissioner and the Legislative Auditor containing a list of all property items in his custody, together with descriptive information as set forth in R.S. 39:324. Upon completion of each subsequent annual inventory, each property manager shall submit to the commissioner and the Legislative Auditor a certified report containing all exceptions or discrepancies found in relating physical and perpetual inventory records. The annual report also shall include a listing of idle or surplus items available for transfer or disposition.

Added by Acts 1964, No. 115, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:134.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 134.1
American Jobs Plan Act
Status: in_force

No federal funds received by the state for infrastructure projects pursuant to the American Jobs Plan Act shall be expended or encumbered prior to approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget of a proposal for spending the funds submitted by the division of administration. The proposal shall include the amount of funding for specific transportation, highway, construction, or other infrastructure projects.

Acts 2021, No. 448, §1, eff. June 30, 2021.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:515 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 515
Lost, destroyed, or cancelled bonds
Status: in_force

A. Whenever any bond is lost, destroyed, or improperly cancelled, the issuing governmental entity may, by resolution of its governing body, authorize the issuance of new bonds to replace them, upon proof of such loss, destruction, or cancellation satisfactory to the governmental entity and upon the giving to the governmental entity an indemnity bond in such amount as the governmental entity thereof may require. The new bond shall in all respects be identical with those lost, destroyed, or cancelled except that it shall bear on its face the following additional clause:

"This bond is issued to replace a lost, cancelled, or destroyed bond under the authority of R.S. 39:515."

B. Such new bond shall be signed by the same officers who signed the original bond, provided, however, that in the event the officers who signed the original bonds are no longer in office, then the new bond shall be signed by the officers then in office.

C. If the original bond was registered in the office of the secretary of state, and bore a certificate evidencing such registration signed by the secretary of state, then the new bond shall not be required to be registered in the office of the secretary of state.

D. The obligation of the governmental entity upon the new bond shall be identical with its obligation upon the original bond, and the rights of the owner, including any statutory lien granted by this Part or the proceedings authorizing the original bond, shall be the same as those conferred by the original bond.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:31 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 31
Strategic planning
Status: in_force

A.(1) Each department of state government and each agency therein shall engage in the process of strategic planning and shall produce a strategic plan to be used to guide its ongoing and proposed activities for the next five years.

(2) For higher education systems, institutions, or agencies, the requirements of this Section may be incorporated into the master plan for higher education required by Article VIII, Section 5(D)(4) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

(3) In the process of strategic planning as provided herein, each department of state government and each agency therein shall incorporate in its strategic plan, to the maximum extent practicable, components of the State Master Plan for Economic Development as provided in R.S. 51:2380 applicable to that department or agency and shall clearly delineate those components in its strategic plan.

B. Initial strategic plans shall be completed no later than July 1, 1998. Thereafter, all plans shall be revised and updated at least every three years. The commissioner of administration shall provide a schedule and other guidance for the timely preparation, revision, and submission of strategic plans. The plans shall be prepared in the manner prescribed by the commissioner of administration, shall be accompanied by such other information as the commissioner of administration may require, and shall be submitted to the commissioner of administration and to the standing committee of each house of the legislature having responsibility for oversight of the department or agency as provided in R.S. 49:966.

C. Each strategic plan shall, at a minimum, contain the following:

(1) A mission statement, which shall provide a broad, comprehensive statement of purpose for the entity.

(2) A statement of the goals that reflect the benefits the entity expects to achieve on behalf of the public or specific groups.

(3) A brief statement identifying the principal clients and users of each program and the specific service or benefit derived by such persons.

(4) A statement of objectives relative to each program which the entity expects to achieve in attaining its goals.

(5) An identification of potential external factors which are beyond the control of the entity and which could significantly affect the achievement of its goals or objectives.

(6) A statement of each strategy that the entity shall use in achieving each stated goal and objective.

(7) An explanation of how duplication of effort shall be avoided when the operations of more than one program are directed at achieving a single goal, objective, or strategy.

(8) Specific and measurable performance indicators for each objective which shall, at a minimum, include an indicator of outcome, efficiency, or quality, as well as indicators of input and output, as necessary and relevant.

(9) A statement of the agency's strategies for development and implementation of human resource policies which are helpful and beneficial to women and families.

D. Each strategic plan shall include, where applicable, the statutory requirement or other authority for each goal of the plan, a description of any program evaluations used to develop objectives and strategies, and identification of the primary persons who will benefit from or be significantly affected by each objective within the plan.

E. Each agency shall submit documentation to the division of administration as to the validity, reliability, and appropriateness of each performance indicator, as well as the method used to verify and validate the performance indicators as relevant measures of each program's performance. Additionally, each agency shall indicate how each performance indicator is used in management decisionmaking and other agency processes.

F.(1) Each agency shall refer to its strategic plan in the construction of its annual operational plan for budget development purposes in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 39:32(I). The operational plans shall be considered by the commissioner of administration in the preparation of the executive budget and supporting document. However, any information taken from an agency's strategic plan or operational plan for inclusion in the executive budget or supporting document shall be included at the discretion of the commissioner of administration.

(2) In addition to the requirements of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, each agency shall incorporate the following elements into its operational plan, to the maximum extent practicable:

(a) A clear delineation of the components of the annual Economic Development Action Plan developed in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 51:2381 which are applicable to the agency.

(b) A statement of the agency's strategies for development and implementation of human resource policies which are helpful and beneficial to women and families.

Acts 1997, No. 1465, §2, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 49, §1, eff. July 1, 1998; Acts 1999, No. 1036, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 1999, No. 1169, §2; Acts 2003, No. 1078, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1785 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1785
Applicable laws to corporation
Status: in_force

A. The corporation shall be subject to the Public Records Law, Public Meeting Law, Code of Ethics, and the Bond Validation Procedures Law.

B. Further, any procurement made by said corporation must be made in accordance with the applicable procurement law relative to the item or items being procured, and the state shall follow all applicable procurement laws when using the corporation as a financing vehicle.

C. Further, any capital construction performed by or on behalf of the corporation, and/or to be used by the state, shall be advertised, bid, and contracted for in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 38:2211 et seq., and the state shall follow all provisions of R.S. 38:2211 et seq., when using the corporation as a financing vehicle for any capital construction.

D. Further, prior to award the corporation or its agent charged with the administration of such contracts shall require that every prime contractor provide evidence to the corporation or its agent of ten percent participation by minority-owned businesses, contracted for in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 38:2211 et seq., provided no contract shall be awarded to a minority-owned business that would cause the contract price to be in excess of the contract price if awarded to a nonminority-owned business, on a competitive bid basis, for the total dollar amount of all procurement of goods and services or for construction awarded by that corporation or its agent. For purposes of this Subsection, minority-owned businesses shall be certified in accordance with the provisions of Part II of Chapter 19 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

E. In any action for damages for an offense or quasi offense against the corporation, its officers, or employees, the corporation, its officers, or employees are entitled to assert any defense or limitation available to the state or an agency thereof, including but not limited to the provisions of Part XV of Chapter 32 of Title 13 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

F. In any claim or lawsuit against the corporation or its officers or employees for damages arising out of personal injury or death of an official or employee of the state, its agencies, boards or commissions, the exclusive, compulsory and obligatory relief shall be limited to the remedies and relief afforded under Chapter 10 of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, including but not limited to R.S. 23:1034.

Acts 1985, No. 893, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 1987, No. 714, §1, eff. July 9, 1987; Acts 2001, No. 1059, §1, eff. June 28, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1596 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1596
Small purchases
Status: in_force

Procurements not exceeding the amounts established by executive order of the governor may be made in accordance with small purchase procedures prescribed by such executive order, except that procurement requirements shall not be artificially divided so as to constitute a small purchase under this Section.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 1997, No. 679, §1; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:466.13 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 466.13
Powers
Status: in_force

The Capital Construction and Improvement Commission is hereby vested with all powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purpose of this Chapter with respect to the construction of the buildings, structures and other facilities comprising the capital outlay program of the Louisiana State School for the Deaf in the parish of East Baton Rouge, and the furnishings and equipment therefor, and this Chapter shall be liberally construed to that end. The commission is hereby authorized to adopt rules and regulations for the effectuating of such purpose not inconsistent with the provisions hereof.

Added by Acts 1970, No. 68, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:462.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 462.4
Revolving loan fund; eligibility requirements; loans for eligible infrastructure projects; authorizing and issuing debt; security; interest rates; tax exemption
Status: in_force

A.(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, and in addition to the authority to lend or borrow money or incur or guarantee indebtedness provided by any other provision of law, sums on deposit in and credited to the fund may be loaned to local governments for use in connection with eligible infrastructure projects. However, this Section shall not be deemed to be the exclusive authority under which a local government may borrow money or incur indebtedness.

(2) In order for a local government to be eligible for a loan pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, the local government shall comply with all of the following:

(a) The local government shall demonstrate that it has financial resources and a financial strategy for the duration of the lifecycle of the project to ensure that the project is sufficiently funded, maintained, and replaced as needed.

(b) The local government shall be in good standing and comply with the audit requirements provided for in R.S. 24:513 at the time that the local government applies for and receives the loan as well as during the duration of the term of the loan.

(3) A local government is limited to one loan from the revolving loan fund; however, once all of the principal, interest, and any other fees and obligations due under the loan agreement are paid in full, the local government may apply for a new loan from the revolving loan fund.

(4) No loan shall be made nor debt evidencing the loan be issued or incurred without the approval of the commission.

B. All bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of any local government issued to represent a loan shall be authorized and issued pursuant to a resolution or ordinance of the governing authority of that entity, hereinafter referred to collectively as "resolution". The resolution shall prescribe the form and details thereof, including the terms, security for, manner of execution, repayment schedule, and redemption features thereof, and the resolution may provide that an officer of the entity may execute in connection with the obligation any related contract, including but not limited to a credit enhancement device, indenture of trust, loan agreement, pledge agreement, or other agreement or contract needed to accomplish the purposes for which the evidence of indebtedness is given, in substantially the form referenced in the resolution, but which final executed credit enhancement device, indenture of trust, loan agreement, pledge agreement, or other contract or agreement may contain changes, additions, and deletions as shall in the sole opinion of the executing officer be appropriate under the circumstances. The resolution shall include a statement as to the maximum principal amount of any obligation; the maximum interest rate to be incurred or borne by the obligation or guaranteed by the obligation; the maximum redemption premium, if any; and the maximum term in years for the obligation, guarantee, or pledge.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a local government, upon entering into a loan as provided in this Chapter, may dedicate and pledge a portion of any revenues it has available to be pledged and dedicated, including but not limited to revenues from the general revenue fund, sales taxes, sewer user fees, assessments, parcel fees, or ad valorem property taxes, for a sufficient term to repay the principal of, interest on, and any premium, administrative fee, or other fee or cost incurred in connection with the loan.

D. Any evidence of indebtedness authorized pursuant to this Chapter shall bear a rate or rates of interest that shall not exceed the rate or rates set forth in the resolution authorizing and providing for the issuance thereof. Any rate or rates of interest may be fixed, variable, or adjustable rates.

E. The general laws of the state governing fully registered securities of public entities shall be applicable to the bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to this Chapter.

F. A resolution authorizing a loan pursuant to this Section shall be published once in the official journal or a newspaper of general circulation in the parish or local government entity incurring the loan. It shall not be necessary to publish exhibits to the resolution, but the exhibits shall be made available for public inspection at the offices of the governing authority of the parish, municipality, or other political subdivision at reasonable times, and notice of the availability of these documents shall be stated in the publication within the official journal or newspaper of general circulation in the parish or local government entity incurring the loan. For a period of thirty days after the date of publication, any person in interest may contest the legality of the resolution authorizing the evidence of indebtedness or other loan and any provision thereof made for the security and payment of the debt. After the thirty-day period, no one shall have any cause or right of action to contest the regularity, formality, legality, or effectiveness of the resolution and the provisions thereof or of the bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness or other loan, or to provide for the payment of the debt, or the legality thereof, and all of the provisions of the resolution and evidence of indebtedness shall be conclusively presumed valid, and no court shall have authority or jurisdiction to inquire into the matter.

G. Interest on bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued for any loan entered into under the authority of this Chapter shall be exempt from all state taxation pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 39:511 and R.S. 47:48. The bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness or loans may be used for deposit with any officer, board, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state in any case where, by present or future laws, deposit of security is required for state funds. Additionally, the proceeds of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness or loans issued pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter may be used for costs associated with the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness.

Acts 2023, No. 424, §1, eff. July 1, 2023.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:786 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 786
Levy and collection of tax
Status: in_force

The governing authority of any parish, for the parish or any ward therein, or the municipal authorities of any municipality, shall, when the vote is in favor of the levy of the taxes, levy and collect annually, in addition to other taxes, a tax upon all taxable property within the parish, ward or municipality, in an amount sufficient to pay the amount specified to be paid in the ordinance, and the parish and municipal governing authorities shall have the same authority and right to enforce the collection of the special tax authorized by the election as may be conferred upon them for the collection of other taxes. The taxes so collected shall be used for the purpose named in the ordinance, and shall be paid over, when collected by the proper officers, to the treasurer for the person or corporation entitled thereto, after deducting lawful commission for collecting them.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1607 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1607
Prequalification of bidders and proposers
Status: in_force

The office of state procurement may provide for prequalification of bidders and proposers as responsible prospective contractors. Solicitation mailing lists of potential contractors shall include but shall not necessarily be limited to such prequalified bidders and proposers. Prequalification shall not foreclose a written determination (a) between the time of the receipt of bid or proposal and the making of an award that a prequalified bidder or proposer is not responsible or (b) that a bidder or proposer who is not prequalified at the time of receipt of bid or proposals is responsible.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 772, §1; Acts 2014, No. 864, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2015; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:641 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 641
Parish One Cent Gasoline Fund; bonding
Status: in_force

In order to provide ready funds for the improvement of parish roads, as hereinafter provided, the governing authority of each parish of the state, subject to approval of the State Bond and Tax Board, may issue bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness and pledge for their payment not to exceed one-half of the moneys accruing to the credit of the parish in and payable to the parish out of the Parish One Cent Gasoline Fund established and provided for by R.S. 47:727(B)(2).

Acts 1970, No. 101, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:507 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 507
Validity of bonds; recital of regularity
Status: in_force

A. Before bonds are issued under this Part, the governing authority shall investigate and determine the regularity of the proceedings. The proceedings authorizing the bonds may direct that the bonds contain the following recital:

"It is certified that this indebtedness is authorized by and is issued in conformity with the requirements of the constitution and statutes of Louisiana."

B. Such recital shall be deemed to be an authorized declaration of the governing authority and to import that there is constitutional and statutory authority for issuing the bonds and imposing the pledged tax or providing for the collection of the pledged revenues; that all the proceedings therefor are regular; that all acts, conditions, and things required to exist, happen and be performed precedent to and in the issuance of the bonds and imposition of any pledged tax or providing for the collection of the pledged revenues have existed, have happened and have been performed in due time, form, and manner as required by law; that the amount of the bonds, together with all other indebtedness of the governmental entity does not exceed any limit or limits prescribed by the constitution or statutes of Louisiana; and that the required notices have been duly and regularly given in the manner required by law. If any bonds are issued containing the above recital, the same shall be construed according to the import herein declared, and it shall be conclusively presumed that the recital is true, and neither the governing authority nor any taxpayer shall be permitted to question the validity or regularity of the bonds, obligations, or tax in any court or in any action or proceeding.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:17.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 17.2
Digitized credentials; authorization; implementation; validity
Status: in_force

A. Any credential authorized or required by the state may be made available in digitized format on a program which a user can utilize through an electronic wallet.

B. Any digitized credential downloaded through an application on a mobile device as provided by this Subpart shall be as valid as a tangible credential.

C. A digital copy, photograph, or image of a credential which is not downloaded through the application on a mobile device shall not be a valid digitized credential.

D. The commissioner of administration shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement the program and to develop the accessibility of any digitized credential available for use in an electronic wallet. The commissioner shall include the words "Crisis Lifeline dial 988" on the home page of any application created for digitized credentials established pursuant to this Subpart.

Acts 2019, No. 220, §1, eff. June 11, 2019; Acts 2023, No. 237, §2, eff. June 9, 2023.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1461 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1461
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Outstanding bonds" means all or any one or more of the following bonds issued directly by the state or by any state board, agency, or commission which may be outstanding at any time:

(a) General obligation bonds which are secured by the full faith and credit of the state, which may or may not be payable from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, including those bonds which are payable primarily from specified portions of specific taxes or other dedicated revenues.

(b) Bonds which are not secured by the full faith and credit of the state, but which are payable from dedicated portions of specific state taxes and may or may not be additionally payable from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.

(2) "Refund" means the act of refunding, including readjusting, extending, and unifying outstanding bonds or issues of bonds.

(3) "Refunded bonds" means the bonds being refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds.

(4) "Government obligations" means direct obligations of or obligations the payment of the principal and interest of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 382, §1, eff. July 12, 1978.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1542 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1542
Worker's compensation
Status: in_force

The state shall become self-insured for worker's compensation coverage by January 1, 1981.

Added by Acts 1980, No. 520, §1, eff. July 1, 1980. Acts 1983, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 1, §6.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1629 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1629
Right to inspect plant
Status: in_force

The state may, at reasonable times, inspect the part of the plant or place of business of a contractor or any subcontractor which is related to the performance of any contract awarded or to be awarded by the state.

Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1788 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1788
Bonds; security; trust agreement; indenture
Status: in_force

In the discretion of the corporation, any bonds issued by it may be secured by a trust agreement or indenture by and between the corporation and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. Such trust agreement or indenture or the resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds may pledge or assign the revenues to be received from any lease of the correctional facilities. Such trust agreement, indenture, or resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law. Any such trust agreement, indenture, or resolution may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee or trustees and may restrict the individual right of action of bondholders. In addition to the foregoing, any such trust agreement, indenture, or resolution may contain such other provisions as the corporation may deem reasonable and proper for the security of bondholders.

Acts 1985, No. 893, §1, eff. July 23, 1985.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.39 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.39
Security for payment of bonds; provisions of trust indenture or resolution
Status: in_force

A. In the discretion of the board, any bonds issued, and any ancillary contracts or derivative instruments made under the provisions of this Subpart, may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the corporation and the indenture trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company, whether located within or without the state. Such trust indenture, or the resolution of the board providing for the issuance of such bonds, may:

(1) Pledge or assign all or any part of the income or other assets of the corporation available for such purpose.

(2) Provide for the creation and maintenance of such reserves as the board shall determine to be proper.

(3) Include covenants setting forth the duties of the corporation in relation to the bonds, the income of the corporation, and the Offshore Royalty Revenue assets.

(4) Contain provisions respecting the custody, safeguarding and application of all monies and securities and such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies (pursuant thereto and to the related agreement) of the holders and other beneficiaries as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law.

(5) Contain such other provisions as the corporation may deem reasonable and proper for priorities and subordination among the holders and other beneficiaries. Any reference in this Subpart to a resolution of the board shall include any trust indenture authorized thereby.

B. Any pledge or security interest made by the corporation shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge or security interest is made. The income or other assets so pledged and then or thereafter received by the corporation shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge or security interest without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge or security interest shall be valid and binding as against all parties asserting or having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the corporation, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge or security interest is created need be recorded or filed to perfect such pledge or security interest.

C. Whether or not the bonds are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, the bonds are hereby made negotiable instruments for all purposes, subject only to the provisions of the bonds for registration.

Acts 2007, No. 249, §1, eff. July 6, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2160 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2160
Recovery awarded to a qui tam plaintiff
Status: in_force

A.(1) Except as provided by Subsection D of this Section and Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, if the attorney general intervenes in the action brought by a qui tam plaintiff, the qui tam plaintiff shall receive at least ten percent, but not more than twenty percent, of actual damages and civil fines awarded by the court, exclusive of the civil monetary penalty provided in R.S. 39:2156(C).

(2) In making a determination of award to the qui tam plaintiff, the court shall consider the extent to which the qui tam plaintiff substantially contributed to investigations and proceedings related to the qui tam action.

(3) If the court finds the allegations in the qui tam action to be based primarily on disclosures of specific information other than information provided by the qui tam plaintiff, the court may award less than ten percent of actual damages and civil fines awarded by the court, exclusive of the civil monetary penalty provided in R.S. 39:2156(C), taking into account the significance of the information and the role of the qui tam plaintiff in advancing the qui tam action to judgment or settlement.

B. Except as provided by Subsection D of this Section, if the attorney general does not intervene in the qui tam action, the qui tam plaintiff shall receive an amount, not to exceed thirty percent of actual damages, civil fines, and the civil monetary penalty provided for in R.S. 39:2156(C), which the court decides is reasonable for the qui tam plaintiff pursuing the action to judgment or settlement.

C.(1) In addition to all other recovery to which he is entitled and if he prevails in the qui tam action, the qui tam plaintiff shall be entitled to an award against the defendant for costs, expenses, fees, and attorney fees, subject to review by the court using a reasonable, necessary, and proper standard of review.

(2) If the attorney general does not intervene and the qui tam plaintiff conducts the action, the court shall award costs, expenses, fees, and attorney fees to a prevailing defendant if the court finds that the allegations made by the qui tam plaintiff were meritless or brought primarily for the purposes of harassment. A finding by the court that qui tam allegations were meritless or brought primarily for the purposes of harassment may be used by the prevailing defendant in the qui tam action or any other civil proceeding to recover losses or damages sustained as a result of the qui tam plaintiff filing and pursuing such a qui tam action.

D. Whether or not the attorney general intervenes, if the court finds that the action was brought by a person who participated in the violation which is the subject of the action, then the court may, to the extent the court considers appropriate, reduce the share of the proceeds of the action which the qui tam plaintiff would otherwise receive under Subsection A or B of this Section, taking into account the role that the qui tam plaintiff played in advancing the case to judgment or settlement and any relevant circumstances pertaining to the qui tam plaintiff's participation in the violation. A person who planned the violation shall not be entitled to recovery.

E. When more than one party serves as a qui tam plaintiff, the share of recovery each receives shall be determined by the court. In no case, however, shall the total award to multiple qui tam plaintiffs be greater than the total award allowed to a single qui tam plaintiff under Subsection A or B of this Section.

F. In no instance shall the attorney general or the state be liable for any costs, expenses, fees, or attorney fees incurred by the qui tam plaintiff or for any award entered against the qui tam plaintiff.

G. The percentage of the share awarded to or settled for by the qui tam plaintiff shall be determined using the total amount of the award. However, the total amount of funds lost from the hurricane relief programs must be made whole through the payment of any and all actual damages prior to the disbursement of any funds related to the percentage of the damages to be received by the qui tam plaintiff.

Acts 2006, No. 479, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1123 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1123
Exemption from taxation
Status: in_force

All bonds issued under the provisions of this Chapter shall be exempt from taxation.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1367 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1367
State debt; limitations
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby established a limitation on the issuance of net state tax supported debt. The limit shall be established annually by the State Bond Commission as follows:

(1) Beginning for Fiscal Year 1993-1994, net state tax supported debt shall not be issued if the amount which is to be expended for servicing such outstanding debt exceeds the percent of the estimate of money to be received by the state general fund and dedicated funds for each respective fiscal year as contained in the official forecast adopted by the Revenue Estimating Conference at its first meeting after the beginning of each fiscal year, as set forth below:

(a) For Fiscal Year 1993-1994, 13.1 percent.

(b) For Fiscal Year 1994-1995, 11.3 percent.

(c) For Fiscal Year 1995-1996, 11.2 percent.

(d) For Fiscal Year 1996-1997, 10.6 percent.

(e) For Fiscal Year 1997-1998, 10.2 percent.

(f) For Fiscal Year 1998-1999, 9.0 percent.

(g) For Fiscal Year 1999-2000, 7.0 percent.

(h) For Fiscal Year 2000-2001, 6.6 percent.

(i) For Fiscal Year 2001-2002, 6.4 percent.

(j) For Fiscal Year 2002-2003, 6.5 percent.

(k) For Fiscal Year 2003-2004 and for each fiscal year thereafter, 6.0 percent.

(2) The limitation established pursuant to this Section shall not be construed to prevent the payment of debt service on net state tax supported debt.

(3) Only for purposes of this Section, the Revenue Estimating Conference shall include all amounts which are to be used to service outstanding net state tax supported debt in its estimate.

B.(1) The limitation established pursuant to this Section may be changed by passage of a specific legislative instrument by a two-thirds vote of the elected members of each house of the legislature.

(2) The limitation may be exceeded upon passage of a specific legislative instrument for a project or related projects by a two-thirds vote of the elected members of each house of the legislature. Any debt service payment required for bonds issued in connection with such projects shall not be impaired in future years by application of this limitation. The limitation established pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to be increased as necessary to accommodate projects approved to exceed this limit if approved as provided in this Subsection but only as long as there are bonds outstanding for the projects.

C. The estimate of money to be received by the state general fund and dedicated funds shall be as provided in the official forecast adopted by the Revenue Estimating Conference at its first meeting after the beginning of each fiscal year and the projection for the succeeding three-year period as provided in R.S. 39:172, including all amounts to be used to pay debt service on net state tax supported debt.

D. Except as provided in Paragraph (B)(2) of this Section, the State Bond Commission shall not approve the issuance of any net state tax supported debt, the debt service requirement of which would cause the limit herein established to be exceeded.

E. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have the following meanings ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) "Amount expended for servicing outstanding net state tax supported debt" means all payments of principal, interest, and sinking fund requirements.

(2)(a) "Net state tax supported debt" means all of the following debt obligations issued by the state or any entity in the state for which the state is legally obligated to make debt service payments, either directly or indirectly:

(i) General obligation bonds secured by the full faith and credit of the state.

(ii) Debt secured by capital leases of immovable property payable by the state or annual appropriations of the state.

(iii) Debt secured by statewide tax revenues or statewide special assessments.

(iv) Any funds advanced by a political subdivision in accordance with R.S. 47:820.2.

(v) Bonds secured by self-supported revenues which in the first instance may not be sufficient to pay debt service and will then draw on the full faith and credit of the state.

(b) "Net state tax supported debt" shall not mean:

(i) Any obligations owed by the state pursuant to the State Employment Security Law.

(ii) Cash flow borrowings payable from revenue attributable to one fiscal year.

(iii) Any bond or note, including the full principal of and interest on any refunding bond or note, issued by the state pursuant to Section 4 or 5 of Act No. 41 of the 2006 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature.

(iv) Any bond, note, certificate, warrant, reimbursement obligation, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to R.S. 23:1532.1.

(v) Any bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness issued for the purpose of financing the projects set forth in R.S. 17:3394.3(C) or any bonds issued to refund such bonds, notes, or evidence of indebtedness.

(vi) Any short term loan not to exceed one year issued by a postsecondary education management board for the purpose of financing projects as authorized in R.S. 39:128(B)(1).

(vii) Any bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness issued for the purpose of financing the projects set forth in R.S. 39:91 or any bonds issued to refund such bonds, notes, or evidence of indebtedness.

(viii) Any bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority or the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Financing Corporation.

(ix) Any bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness issued for the purpose of financing the projects set forth in R.S. 48:77.1 or any bonds issued to refund such bonds, notes, or evidence of indebtedness.

(x) Any bond, note, certificate, warrant, reimbursement obligation, guarantee, credit enhancement, pledge, assistance, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to R.S. 39:462.1 et seq.

(xi) Any bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to R.S. 30:83.1 et seq. or any bonds issued to refund such bonds, notes, or evidence of indebtedness.

Acts 1993, No. 813, §1, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 151, §1, eff. April 24, 2002; Acts 2006, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 40, §1, eff. Feb. 23, 2006; Acts 2006, No. 766, §1, eff. June 30, 2006; Acts 2013, No. 360, §2, eff. June 17, 2013; Acts 2014, No. 701, §1; Acts 2019, No. 443, §1, eff. June 25, 2019; Acts 2020, No. 89, §1; Acts 2022, No. 505, §1, eff. June 16, 2022; Acts 2023, No. 424, §1, eff. July 1, 2023; Acts 2025, No. 458, §6, eff. Oct. 1, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1800.32 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1800.32
Bonds and certificates as legal investments
Status: in_force

Bonds and certificates are hereby made securities in which all banks, bankers, savings banks, trust companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who now are or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state of Louisiana may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital belonging to them or within their control, and such bonds and certificates are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officers or agency of the state of Louisiana for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state of Louisiana is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.

Acts 2010, No. 556, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1983 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1983
Factors considered in determining control
Status: in_force

Whether an owner meets the fifty-one percent control requirement shall be determined on an application-by-application basis. Factors which may be considered in determining whether or not the owner meets the control requirement include but are not limited to the following:

(1) Authority and restrictions as indicated in the articles of incorporation, bylaws, partnership agreements, or other business agreements and documents.

(2) Members of the board of directors and corporate officers.

(3) Recent changes in ownership or control of the business.

(4) Documentation indicating who has ultimate authority to make policy and management decisions and to legally obligate the business.

Acts 1984, No. 653, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.52 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.52
Water Sector Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Water Sector Fund, hereinafter referred to in this Section as the "fund".

B. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on the investment of monies in the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund. All unexpended and unencumbered monies remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

C. Monies in the fund shall be used to provide grant funding for repairs, improvements, and consolidation of water systems and sewer systems pursuant to the Water Sector Program as provided in R.S. 39:100.56 or any other purpose as provided for in this Section. Except as provided in Subsections D and F of this Section and R.S. 39:100.56(K)(2), expenditure of monies in the fund shall require prior approval of the Water Sector Commission and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

D. The Engineering Fee Subfund, hereafter referred to in this Subsection as the "subfund", is hereby created in the state treasury as a subfund in the Water Sector Fund. Monies appropriated or transferred to the subfund shall be deposited by the state treasurer after compliance with the provisions of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana. Monies in the subfund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the Water Sector Fund, and any interest earned on the investment of subfund monies shall be credited to the subfund. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the subfund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the subfund. Monies in the subfund shall be used to provide grant funding to certain political subdivisions for engineering fees arising out of application to the Water Sector Program. No monies shall be expended from the subfund without approval of the Water Sector Commission.

E. The Phase II Subfund is hereby created in the state treasury as a subfund in the Water Sector Fund. Monies appropriated or transferred to the Phase II Subfund shall be deposited by the state treasurer after compliance with the provisions of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana. Monies in the Phase II Subfund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the Water Sector Fund, and any interest earned on the investment of Phase II Subfund monies shall be credited to the Phase II Subfund. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the Phase II Subfund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the Phase II Subfund. Any monies deposited into the Phase II Subfund shall be used only to provide grant funding for repairs, improvements, consolidation, and related expenses of community water and sewer systems as provided in R.S. 39:100.56(O).

F. The Emergency Subfund is hereby created in the state treasury as a subfund in the Water Sector Fund. Monies appropriated or transferred to the Emergency Subfund shall be deposited by the state treasurer after compliance with the provisions of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana. Monies in the Emergency Subfund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the Water Sector Fund, and any interest earned on the investment of Emergency Subfund monies shall be credited to the Emergency Subfund. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the Emergency Subfund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the Emergency Subfund. Monies in the Emergency Subfund shall be used only to provide emergency grant funding to address or mitigate an emergency related to a community water system or community sewer system as provided in R.S. 39:100.56(O). No monies shall be expended from the Emergency Subfund without prior approval of the Water Sector Commission. Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget approval is required for approval of emergency grant funding requests in excess of two hundred thousand dollars.

Acts 2021, No. 410, §1, eff. June 17, 2021; Acts 2022, No. 167, §4, eff. May 30, 2022; Acts 2024, No. 497, §1, eff. June 10, 2024; Acts 2024, No. 723, §3, eff. June 19, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1695 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1695
Late payment to business; penalty paid by state agency
Status: in_force

A. If a state agency without reasonable cause fails to make any payment due within ninety days of the due date prescribed by contract, to a business awarded a contract with the state agency to supply equipment, supplies, materials, or textbooks, or to provide services, the state agency shall pay, in addition to the payment, interest on the amount due at the rate established pursuant to the judicial interest rate referenced in R.S. 13:4202(B) per year, from the ninety-first day after the due date prescribed by the contract. In applying this Section to a claim related in any way to an entitlement program, payment for claims shall be due ninety days after a claim is received by the state.

B. If it is determined by the state agency that additional evidence of the validity of the claim for payment is required, such evidence shall be requested within ten working days from the date the bill is received by the state agency. In instances where additional evidence is required, the bill shall be reviewed and payment or rejection made within thirty days from receipt of the evidence requested in the office of the paying agency.

C. Any penalty required to be paid by a state agency pursuant to this Section shall be disbursed upon warrants drawn by the state agency upon that agency's operating expenses budget.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 709, §1; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 4, §2, eff. Mar. 28, 1988; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:143 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 143
Definitions
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases shall be defined as follows:

(1) "Agency" for the purposes of this Part and Part V of Chapter 17 of this Title has the same meaning as ascribed to it in R.S. 36:3(1).

(2) "Telecommunications transmission facility" means any transmission medium, switch, instrument, wiring system, or other facility which is used, in whole or in part, to provide any transmission.

(3) "Utility" means any telecommunications service provided by the office of telecommunications management and used in the essential operations of a state agency, such as local dial tone, wide area network, and local area network.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 153, §1, eff. July 12, 1982; Acts 1990, No. 876, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1098, §1, eff. July 14, 1997; Acts 2001, No. 772, §3, eff. July 1, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:366.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 366.3
Definitions
Status: in_force

In this Part, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed in this Section unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1) "Cooperative endeavor" means any agreement including one of cooperative financing, other than a competitive bid or competitively negotiated contract, whether contracted pursuant to Chapter 10 of Title 38 or Chapter 17 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or pursuant to a request for proposals, request for qualifications, solicitation for offers, or other recognized process for competitively seeking qualified contractors, to which the state is a party and pursuant to which the state has obligated state resources, whether funds, credit, property, or things of value of the state to a nonpublic person for the accomplishment of a public purpose or in the public interest, but shall not include projects contained in the comprehensive state capital outlay budget, projects pursuant to the Governor's Economic Development Rapid Response Program, and integrated coastal protection programs and projects authorized in the annual coastal protection and restoration plan and administered by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.

(2) "Cooperative financing" means any method of financing integral to a cooperative endeavor between and among the state or its agencies and any nonpublic person. Said methods shall include loans, loan guarantees, land write-downs, grants, lease guarantees or any form of financial subsidy or incentive.

(3) "Immediate family" means a person's children, the spouses of his children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their spouses, his parents, his spouse and the parents of his spouse.

(4) "Litigation settlement" means an action by an official, agent, or employee of the state which results in an obligation of the state to pay money to a person or otherwise to expend state funds, other than claims settled under the provisions of Chapter 16-A of Title 39 or Chapters 10 or 11 of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as the result of a claim against the state which may lead to or has led to the filing of a suit against the state which obligation occurs prior to a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction on the matter.

(5) "Person" means a natural person or a corporation or other form of entity the organization of which is authorized by law.

Acts 2005, No. 329, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2010, No. 734, §4; Acts 2016, No. 430, §5.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:551.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 551.5
North Webster Parish Industrial District
Status: in_force

A. The North Webster Parish Industrial District is hereby created as a political subdivision of the state and its territorial limits and jurisdiction shall extend throughout Ward Two of Webster Parish as said ward is constituted on the effective date of this Section.

B. The governing authority of the district shall be a board of commissioners consisting of seven members, two of whom shall be appointed by the governing authority of the city of Springhill, one each to be appointed by the governing authorities of the municipalities of Cullen, Sarepta, Shongaloo and Cotton Valley, and one to be appointed by the governing authority of the parish of Webster. All members shall be bona fide residents and qualified voters within the limits of the district during their term of office and shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority.

C. The powers and duties conferred by the constitution and statutory laws of this state governing industrial districts and the power to incur debt and issue bonds to encourage industrial enterprises, including, but not by way of limitation, the provisions of R.S. 39:551.1 through R.S. 39:551.3 and the provisions of Part XII of Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, shall apply to the North Webster Parish Industrial District, except as otherwise provided by this Section.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 422, §1, eff. July 10, 1978.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:462.6 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 462.6
Duties of the legislative auditor
Status: in_force

The legislative auditor may review all loan applications for compliance with the provisions of this Chapter. The state treasurer and the loan applicant shall be responsible for providing the legislative auditor with all claims and necessary documentation to carry out his reviews.

Acts 2023, No. 424, §1, eff. July 1, 2023.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1214 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1214
Bids to be invited
Status: in_force

A. Local depositing authorities shall, within thirty days prior to the expiration of any contract that may be entered into under this Chapter, give written notice to each of the banks located in any parish which embraces all or any portion of the political subdivision in which the depositing authority is domiciled and for which it acts, setting forth the intention of the depositing authority to select a fiscal agency. This notice shall specify the time for which the fiscal agency contract shall be made and the conditions and terms of the fiscal agency contract proposed; and it shall invite bids under the terms and conditions of the proposal. A copy of the notice shall be published in the official journal of the depositing authority at least three times, the first notice to be published at least fifteen days preceding the date for the selection of the fiscal agency.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the term of the local depository contract of the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court for the fiscal agency may be for a period not to exceed the term of the clerk.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the term of a fiscal agency contract of the Bossier Parish clerk of court may be for a period not to exceed the term of the clerk.

D. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the term of a fiscal agency contract of the Caddo Parish clerk of court may be for a period not to exceed the term of the clerk.

Amended by Acts 1968, No. 71, §1; Acts 1997, No. 190, §1; Acts 2005, No. 12, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.242 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.242
Criminal Justice Priority Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Criminal Justice Priority Fund.

B. Monies appropriated or transferred to the fund shall be deposited by the state treasurer after compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on the investment of monies in the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

C. Monies in the fund shall be used to provide grant awards and funding for the program pursuant to the provisions of this Subpart.

Acts 2024, No. 587, §1, eff. June 11, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1410.62 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1410.62
Delinquent payments or fund transfers on outstanding indebtedness; notification to commission
Status: in_force

All parishes, municipalities, and any other unit of local government, including but not limited to school boards and special districts, authorized by law to perform governmental functions, as well as any political subdivision creating same, shall notify the commission, in writing, whenever:

(1) Transfers to any funds required to be established by resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds, certificates of indebtedness, or otherwise authorizing the incurring of indebtedness, have not been made timely.

(2) Principal, interest, premiums, or other payments due on outstanding indebtedness have not been made timely.

Acts 1990, No. 500, §1, eff. July 18, 1990.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1625 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1625
Contract content
Status: in_force

Each contract for professional, personal, consulting, or social services entered into by a governmental body as defined in R.S. 39:1556(24) shall contain as a minimum: description of the work to be performed and objectives to be met; amount and time of payments to be made; description of reports or other deliverables to be received, when applicable; date of reports or other deliverables to be received, when applicable; responsibility for payment of taxes, when applicable; circumstances under which the contract can be terminated either with or without cause; remedies for default; and a statement giving the legislative auditor the authority to audit records of the individual or firm.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.