Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs
May 5, 2021
9:00 a.m.
Room F
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
April 28, 2021
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
SB105
BOUDREAUX
MILITARY AFFAIRS
- Provides for an African-American military service members monument in the Louisiana Veterans Memorial Park. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
SB224
CLOUD
VOTERS/VOTING
- Provides for voter identification information and verification requirements for absentee by mail and early voting ballots. (1/1/23)
SB235
HEWITT
POLITICAL PARTIES
- Provides for a closed party primary system for congressional elections. (gov sig) (OR +$5,500,000 GF EX See Note)
SCR30
BRET ALLAIN
JOINT RULES
- Limits annual total cash general obligation capital outlay projects to general obligation bond cash line of credit capacity.
SCR33
LUNEAU
FEDERAL PROGRAMS
- Requests the federal Office of Management and Budget to maintain the current minimum population Standard for Delineating Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas.
SR22
JACKSON-ANDREWS
VOTERS/VOTING
- Creates a study group to study the voting rights of persons incarcerated prior to trial.
HB27
GREGORY MILLER
BOARDS/COMMISSIONS
- Repeals certain adjudication, reporting, and notice requirements applicable to certain licensing boards and commissions
HB139
GADBERRY
ELECTION CODE
- Requires specified members of the parish board of election supervisors to complete annual training relative to the preparation for and conduct of elections (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
HB141
STAGNI
ELECTIONS
- Requires persons conducting exit polls within six hundred feet of a polling place to register with the secretary of state
HB167
MIKE JOHNSON
VOTING/REGISTRATION
- Provides for removal of deceased persons from voter registration rolls (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
HB214
CORMIER
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
- Provides relative to required orientation and training of new registrars of voters (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
HB260
GREGORY MILLER
LEGISLATION
- Provides for technical corrections and revision of provisions of Title 36 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes
CONFIRMATIONS
Louisiana Board of Ethics
Louisiana Department of Health
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT
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