LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Robert Levy, Chair
Joseph Wiley, Vice Chair
Joel Dupré
Uma Subramanian
Chris Gorman
Richard Lipsey
Edward Markle
Roy Martin, III
Representatives from Management Boards
AGENDA ITEM III
1. BoR Bills
SB 16 (Long)
 Provides for the definition of “regular retirement plan” for higher
education employees participating in the Teachers’ Retirement System
of Louisiana
 Bill seeks to restore employer contribution levels to avoid an
unreasonably low rate that will significantly deter recruitment efforts
at all state higher education institutions
 Current Status
 Dual-referred to Senate Retirement and Senate Finance
 Favorably reported by both committees as of April 22, 2013
 Pending senate floor action; needs 2/3 vote
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favorably reported by
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AGENDA ITEM III.
1. BoR Bills (continued)
HB 194 (Leger)
 Provides relative to the authority of public postsecondary education
management boards to increase tuition and mandatory fee amounts
 In discussions with members of House and Senate Education to give
sufficient information on aspects of the bill
 Current Status
 Pending House Education Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
1. BoR Bills (continued)
HB 299 (Carmody)
 Changes the reporting date for submitting the
postsecondary education funding formula to the
legislature
 Current Status
 Pending House Education Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills
HB 87 (Carmody)
 Constitutional Amendment to exempt public
postsecondary education tuition and fees from
requirements for imposing a new or increasing an existing
fee
 Current Status
 Pending House and Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 185 (Cox)
 Authorizes a tax credit for donations made to the LA
Community and Technical College System
 Current Status:
 Pending House Ways and Means Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 207 (Carmody)
 Authorizes each public postsecondary education
management board to name a building at an institution
under its supervision and management in honor of a living
person
 Current Status
 Favorably reported by House Education Committee
 Set for floor debate on 4/23/13
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 243 (Carter)
 Provides relative to the eligibility of certain student who
graduate from certain out-of-state or out-of-country high
schools to receive a Taylor Opportunity Program for
Student (TOPS) award
 Current Status:
 Reported favorably by House Education Committee
 Set for floor debate on 4/23/13
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 320 (Leger)
 Provides relative to the casino support services contract;
affects funding for higher education and K-12
 Current Status
 Reported favorably by House Appropriations.
 Current version is under review by Regents and other higher
education boards.
 We have proposed some changes to ensure proper allocation of
funds to education (both higher education and K-12)
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 401 (Carter)
 Authorizes the public postsecondary education
management boards to increase tuition and fee amounts
at institutions that meet the graduation average for SREB
peer institutions
 Current Status
 Pending House Education Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 528 (Garofalo)
 (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for a single board of
colleges and universities that issues baccalaureate degrees
or higher
 Current Status
 Pending House Education Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 532 (Kleckley)
 (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for a hospital
stabilization formula and assessment and creates the
Hospital Stabilization Fund and provides for uses of the
fund (will constitutionally protect healthcare funding)
 Current Status
 Reported favorably by Committee on Appropriations
 Recommitted to House Civil Law and Procedure
 Pending House Civil Law and Procedure Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 533 (Kleckley)
 (Constitutional Amendment) Creates the Medical
Assistance Trust Fund as a constitutional fund, creates
accounts for each provider paying fees into the fund, and
provides for uses of the fund (will constitutionally protect
healthcare funding)
 Current Status
 Reported favorably by Committee on Appropriations
 Recommitted to House Civil Law and Procedure
 Pending House Civil Law and Procedure Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 549 (Leger)
 Establishes the MediFund for statewide advancement of
biosciences and medical centers of excellence
 Current Status
 Pending House Appropriations Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 558 (Hollis)
 Provides generally relative to the “Course Choice Program”
(impacts higher education institutions’ agreement with
DOE)
 Current Status
 Pending House Education Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 576 (Broadwater)
 Creates a special taxing district to provide a supplemental
means of financing higher education
 We have discussed the option of “regionalizing” either the
taxing district or the distribution of funds, so that local
revenues benefit institutions in the region
 Current Status
 Pending House Ways and Means Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 612 (Greene)
 Permits use of TOPS awards at eligible Louisiana
institutions by otherwise qualified students who graduated
from out-of-state colleges or universities
 Concerns about the fiscal impact of expanding TOPS
 Current Status
 Favorably reported by House Education
 Scheduled for floor debate on 4/24/13
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 HB 673 (Adams)
 Provides relative to facilities maintenance and repair at
public postsecondary education institutions
 Seeks to address deferred maintenance needs of higher
education institutions through a financing program and a
deferred maintenance and use fee
 Current Status
 Pending House Education Committee Hearing
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 31 (Claitor)
 Enacts Board Scholarship Report Act requiring report to
the Legislature of information on scholarships awarded by
members of higher education management boards
 Current Status
 Reported favorably by Senate Education
 Passed by the Senate
 Referred to House Education Committee
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 36 (Heitmeier)
 Prohibit smoking on the grounds of and inside the facilities
or building utilized by the institutions managed and
supervised by certain post secondary education
management boards
 Current Status
 Reported favorably by Senate Health and Welfare
 Pending Senate floor debate
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 45 (Dorsey-Colomb and Rep Berthelot)
 Merges certain La. Technical College campuses with Baton
Rouge Community College
 Current Status
 Reported with amendments by Senate Education
 Recommitted to Senate Finance
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 59 (Buffington)
 Requires the board of supervisors for the Louisiana State
University, Southern University, University of Louisiana,
and Louisiana Community and Technical College Systems
to broadcast the live audio and video of all board meetings
 Current Status
 Reported with amendments by Senate Education
 Pending Senate floor debate
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 83 (Morrish)
 Establishes a cap on TOPS award amounts
 Current Status
 Pending Senate Education
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 93 (Nevers)
 Provides for the awarding and transfer of college credit for academic
content in career and technical and industry-based certification
courses
 Current Status: Pending Senate Education
 04/08 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and
referred to the Committee on Education.
 03/27 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on
Education.
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 117 (Appel)
 Provides for the creation of the Outcomes-Based Funding Task Force
(gov sic)
 Current Status: Pending Senate Education
 04/10 Considered (adjourned)
 04/08 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and
referred to the Committee on Education.
 03/28 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on
Education.
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 118 (Appel)
 Provide relative to the use, expenditure, or allocation of funds
appropriated to public postsecondary education management boards
(gov sic)
 Bill Current Status: Pending Senate Education
 04/10 Considered (adjourned)
 04/08 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and
referred to the Committee on Education.
 03/28 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on
Education.
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 196 (Donahue)
 Provides for the annual reporting to the Joint Legislative Committee
on the Budget by departments and public postsecondary education
management boards on enacted legislation with significant fiscal
impact
 Current Status: Pending Senate Finance
 04/08 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and
referred to the Committee on Finance.
 03/29 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance.
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 202 (Nevers)
 Revises core curriculum requirements and the method of calculating
the grade point average for TOPS awards (gov sic)
 Current Status: Pending Senate floor action
 04/15 Reported with amendments.
 04/08 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and
referred to the Committee on Education.
 03/29 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on
Education
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AGENDA ITEM III.
2. Critical Bills (continued)
 SB 204 (Adley)
 Provides for the issuance of bonds to finance capital improvements for
the Louisiana Community and Technical Colleges System
 Current Status: Pending Senate floor action
 04/15 Reported with amendments.
 04/08 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and
referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
 03/29 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Revenue
and Fiscal Affairs.
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AGENDA ITEM III.
3. Bills Being Monitored
 HCR 2 (Harrison)
 Suspends provisions of law providing for the Cash Balance Plan in
certain retirement systems
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Current Status: Pending House Retirement
04/08 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.
03/08 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/8/2013.
02/22 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.
02/22 Prefiled
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AGENDA ITEM III.
3. Bills Being Monitored
 HCR 16 (Pope)
 Requests that the Board of Regents, in consultation with the Board of
Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges, study the feasibility
of offering community college services in Livingston Parish
 Current Status: Pending House Education
 04/09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
 04/08 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
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AGENDA ITEM III.
3. Bills Being Monitored
 HCR 21 (Talbot)
 Directs the attorney general to review and report to the legislative
governmental affairs committees and requests the governmental
affairs committees to study and make recommendations all relative to
the use of public funds for lobbying and public relations purposes
 Current Status: Pending House and Governmental Affairs
 04/09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and
Governmental Affairs.
 04/08 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
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AGENDA ITEM III.
3. Bills Being Monitored
 SCR 1 (Cortez)
 Suspends Chapter 7 of Subtitle II of Title 11 of the Louisiana Revised
Statutes of 1950, comprised of R.S. 1399.1 through 1399.7
 Current Status: Pending Senate Retirement
 04/08 Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read
second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement.
 02/22 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on
Retirement.
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RECOMMENDATION
Senior Staff recommends that the
Committee receive the report.
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