Governor's Call for 2018 2nd Extraordinary Session

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STATE OF LOUISIANA

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA

PROCLAMATION NO. 80 JBE 2018


By virtue of the authority vested in me by Paragraph B of Section 2 of Article III of the Constitution of Louisiana, I, John Bel Edwards, Governor of the state of Louisiana, HEREBY CALL AND CONVENE THE LEGISLATURE OF LOUISIANA INTO EXTRAORDINARY SESSION to convene at the State Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during fourteen calendar days, beginning at 4:00 o'clock p.m. on the 22nd day of May, 2018, and ending no later than the 4th day of June, 2018. The power to legislate at such session shall be limited, under penalty of nullity, to the following specified enumerated objects:

ITEM NO. 1: To legislate to provide for making supplemental appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2017-2018.
ITEM NO. 2: To legislate to provide for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
ITEM NO. 3: To legislate to appropriate funds for the expenses of the judiciary for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
ITEM NO. 4: To legislate to appropriate funds for the expenses of the legislature for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
ITEM NO. 5: To legislate to provide for the ancillary expenses of state government for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
ITEM NO. 6: To legislate to provide for making supplemental appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 for the ordinary operation expenses of state government, for the expense of the Legislature, and for the expenses of the judiciary.
ITEM NO. 7: To legislate to provide for the Revenue Sharing Distribution for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
ITEM NO. 8: To legislate with regard to the capital outlay budget and the capital outlay program for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019.
ITEM NO. 9: To legislate with regard to the Omnibus Bond Authorization Act of 2018.
ITEM NO. 10: To legislate with regard to the transfer, dedication, deposit, use and appropriation of monies in state funds.
ITEM NO. 11: To legislate with regard to statutory dedications.
ITEM NO. 12: To legislate with regard to fees.
ITEM NO. 13: To legislate with regard to the brackets for state income tax.
ITEM NO. 14: To legislate with regard to the taxation of the sales of services.
ITEM NO. 15: To legislate with regard to Act 126 of the 2015 Regular Session.
ITEM NO. 16: To legislate with regard to Act 123 of the 2015 Regular Session.
ITEM NO. 17: To legislate with regard to Act 109 of the 2015 Regular Session.
ITEM NO. 18: To legislate with regard to Act 26 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2016.
ITEM NO. 19: To legislate with regard to Act 25 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2016.
ITEM NO. 20: To legislate with regard to the deductibility of excess federal itemized personal deductions in computing state income taxes.
ITEM NO. 21: To legislate with regard to tax credits and rebates.
ITEM NO. 22: To legislate with regard to the imposition, collection and remittance of sales and use tax under R.S. 47:302, 321, 321.1 and 331.
ITEM NO. 23: To legislate with regard to exemptions and exclusions from state sales and use tax.
ITEM NO. 24: To legislate with regard to the exemption from taxation for the sale or use of natural gas, water, steam, electric power or energy sold for non-residential use and consumption and any other exemptions provided in those portions of Chapter 2 of Subtitle II of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 that provide exemptions for business utilities from the taxes imposed therein.
ITEM NO. 25: To legislate with regard to the tax credits for ad valorem taxes paid on vessels operating in Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Waters and on public service properties by telephone companies.
ITEM NO. 26: To legislate with regard to the imposition, collection and remittance of sales and use tax under R.S. 47:302 and to amend the definition of dealer.
ITEM NO. 27: To legislate with regard to the sales and use tax rebate, the project facility expense rebate, and the investment tax credit under the Enterprise Zone, Quality Jobs and Competitive Project Payroll Programs.
ITEM NO. 28: To legislate with regard to the tax treatment of refunds in computing corporate income tax.
ITEM NO. 29: To legislate with regard to depreciation and expensing of property for purposes of state income tax.
ITEM NO. 30: To legislate with regard to the Deepwater Horizon Economic Damages Collection Fund.
ITEM NO. 31: To legislate with regard to R.S. 39:52.1.
ITEM NO. 32: To legislate with regard to state expenditure reporting.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my
hand officially and caused to be affixed
the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol,
in the City of Baton Rouge, on this 14th day of May, 2018.



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GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA

ATTEST BY

THE GOVERNOR



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SECRETARY OF STATE