2015 House Notes Wrap Up BF Vetoes

HOUSE NOTES
Louisiana House of Representatives

Communications Office
2015 Regular Session
Wrap-up, June 12, 2015
The 2015 Regular Legislative Session

has adjourned Sine Die.
Overall, 1,132 bills were filed; 847
House Bills and 285 Senate bills.
Four proposed constitutional
amendments, HB360, HB518, HB618 and
SB202 will be submitted to voters.
The governor has signed 42 bills into
law.
A brief description of a few of the bills
that generated public interest during this
session follows.
To search the full listing of all bills
and their status, visit our legislative website.
ANGEL INVESTOR TAX CREDITS

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House Bill 244, which has been sent to
the governor, extends the sunset of the Angel
Investor Tax Credit Program to July 1, 2017.
AGRICULTURE
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Senate Bill 263, which has been sent to
the governor's desk, provides for the
repurchase of farm, industrial, lawn and
garden equipment by wholesalers, for
agreements between dealers and agents, for
termination and cancellation of agreements
and for indemnity, liability and related
matters.
BLOOD TYPE/LICENSE
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House Bill 37, which has completed
the legislative process, authorizes a blood type
designation to be exhibited on the back of a
person's driver's license or special
identification card in black lettering at no cost.
HB37 also lowers the grade minimum
for driver education from ninth to eighth.
Additionally, HB37 allows a person 70
years old or older, who is medically diagnosed
with a disability that precludes renewal of
their Class "D" or "E" driver's license in
person, to renew their license by mail and if
the person seeking renewal is 70 years old or
older, the proposed law requires a sworn
affidavit by a physician certifying such person
possesses all cognitive functions reasonably
necessary to be a prudent driver.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
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the governor, authorizes the holder of a
Retailers Class A liquor permit to obtain a
microdistiller permit, establishes the
microdistiller permit of $1,000 and authorizes
the distilling, making, blending, rectifying or
processing of any alcoholic beverage in the
state.
BANKS/CHILD SUPPORT
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the governor, requires disclosure authorization
be made applicable to persons who co-own a
financial account (identified as belonging to
a delinquent obligor for the purpose of
enforcing child support), and provides for
payment of reimbursement fees to financial
institutions conducting a data match.
CAR THEFT
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Senate Bill 250, which has completed
the legislative process, creates a pilot program
that allows some law enforcement officers to
scan license plates after a traffic stop to crack
down on uninsured motorists and car thieves.
CEMETERY BOARD
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the governor, provides for the regulation of
cemetery authorities by the Louisiana
Cemetery Board, establishes increases in
regulatory, application and examination fees
and authorizes the board to impose fines.
CLASS E DRIVERS LICENSES
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the governor, provides for a one-time issuance
of a provisional one-year Class "E" driver's
license to a person released from incarceration
with suspended, revoked, or cancelled driving
privileges.
COLA
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the legislative process, authorizes payment of
a permanent benefit increase this year up to a
maximum of 1.5% for eligible retirees and
beneficiaries of the four state retirement
systems.
COASTAL PROTECTION
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House Concurrent Resolution 1, which
has been sent to the Secretary of State,
approves the 2015-16 annual plan for
integrated coastal protection adopted by the
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
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Act No. 69 (HB339) provides that the
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
may use its own resources for satisfying any
mitigation requirements.
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Act No. 72 (HB352) changes the
approval authority from the secretary of the
Department of Natural Resources to the
executive director of the Coastal Protection

and Restoration Authority to purchase land for
integrated coastal protection projects.
CORONERS
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the governor, clarifies provisions regarding a
pronouncement of death and provides for
notification, qualifications and appointment of
deputy coroners and assistant coroners.
CORPORATIONS
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the governor, makes various changes to the
Business Corporation Act, including articles
of incorporation, registered agents and service
of process, judicial determinations relative to
withdrawing shareholders, withdrawal rights,
exceptions to limitations of liability,
definitions and technical corrections.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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House Resolution 148, which has been
sent to the Secretary of State, directs the
Louisiana Law Institute to study the issue of
adding assault on a school teacher and battery
of a school teacher to the list of crimes of
violence.
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the governor, retains the elements and
penalties of the present law crimes of
aggravated rape, forcible rape, and simple rape
and changes those terms to provide that any
reference to the crime of "aggravated rape" is
the same as a reference to the crime of "first
degree rape," any reference to the crime of
"forcible rape" is the same as a reference to
the crime of "second degree rape," and any
reference to the crime of "simple rape" is the
same as a reference to the crime of "third
degree rape."
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the governor's desk, amends the definition of
"public possession" to provide that possession
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and consumption of an alcoholic beverage in

a private residence is not unlawful public
possession if the person under 21 is
accompanied by a parent, guardian or spouse
who is at least 21 years of age.
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House Concurrent Resolution 82,
which has been sent to the Secretary of State,
creates the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment
Task Force to conduct an examination of the
state's sentencing and corrections systems,
develop data-driven, research-based policy
recommendations that reduce correctional
populations and associated spending, hold
offenders accountable and reinvest savings
into recidivism strategies.
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authorizes the Louisiana Law Institute to study
the issue of restitution in delinquency cases.
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creates the Criminal Justice Funding
Commission to study the development of a
fair, efficient and effective administration of
the criminal justice system.
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the governor's desk, creates standards and
procedures for the examination and treatment
of victims of a sexually-oriented criminal
offense and the subsequent billing for the
services rendered as a result of the offense.
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Senate Concurrent Resolution 16,
directs the Louisiana Law Institute to establish
a working group to study laws relative to
marijuana and make recommendations that
protect public safety, hold offenders
accountable and control costs.
DEAF CHILD'S BILL OF RIGHTS
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the governor, requires public schools and all
publicly funded early intervention programs to
provide specified services and opportunities to
children who are deaf, hard of hearing or

deaf-blind.
DISABLED ADULT CHILDREN
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the governor, extends child support to
unmarried children who are incapable of
self-support and who require substantial care
and personal supervision because of a mental
or physical disability.
EDUCATION
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the governor, authorizes the management
boards of public higher education to establish
fees and modify fee amounts at institutions
under their respective management and
supervision. HB152 specifically includes
authority to impose per credit fees and
differential fees for certain programs and to
charge proportional amounts for part-time
students and summer sessions.
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the legislative process, requires that state
content standards and assessments reflect
direct application to subject matter proficiency
and prohibits such standards and assessments
from including content or questions to
measure certain non-cognitive skills.
HB245 provides that the prohibition
apply only to students in grades 3-12.
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the governor, provides for the implementation
of state content standards for public school
students subject to legislative approval. If
approved by the Legislature, implementation
shall begin with the 2017-18 school year.
HB373 provides that the State Board
of Elementary and Secondary Education shall
begin reviewing and developing state content
standards in English language arts and
mathematics no later than July 1, 2015.
HB373 requires the board to hold at
least one public hearing in each Louisiana
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congressional district and submit the minutes

from each meeting to each member of the
legislature within 30 days of the meeting. The
board shall post the standards on its website
no later than Feb. 21, 2016, and shall adopt
the standards no later than March 4, 2016.
Additionally, the board shall
promulgate the standards in accordance with
the Administrative Procedure Act prior to
implementation of the standards. The House
Speaker and the Senate President each shall
appoint one member from his respective house
to serve as a liaison to attend and report the
meetings.
Finally, HB373 stipulates that the Act
shall take effect and become operative when
the Act which originated as Senate Bill No. 43
of the 2015 Regular Session of the Legislature
is enacted and becomes effective.
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House Bill 598, which has gone to the
governor's desk, establishes the Able Account
Authority within the Department of
Education, and provides the authority to
administer the ABLE Account Savings
Program to finance certain qualified expenses
of persons with disabilities.
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House Bill 599, reported by substitute
House Bill 844, which has been sent to the
governor, extends the implementation time
line of the early childhood care and
educational network to the beginning of the
2016-17 school year.
ENTERPRISE ZONE TAX CREDITS
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the governor, prohibits eligibility for
Enterprise Zone incentives of a business with
a North American Industry Classification
Code of 44, 45, or 72 from receiving benefits
for projects whose contract is not entered into
before July 1, 2015, unless an advance
notification for the project was filed prior to
June 10, 2015, and the related claim for
benefits is filed on or after July 1, 2016.
EXPUNGEMENT
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the governor, amends provisions of law
providing for expungement.
HB284 provides that no person
arrested for a violation of operating a vehicle
while intoxicated and placed by the
prosecuting authority into a pretrial diversion
program shall be entitled to an expungement
until 5 years have elapsed since the date of
arrest for the offense.
HB284 provides that if a misdemeanor
conviction is the result of an arrest for a sex
offense, the record cannot be expunged and
that a misdemeanor conviction for the crime
of stalking cannot be expunged.
Present law provides that juveniles
who successfully participate in a drug court
program are exempt from expungement fees.
HB284 retains this provision and amends
provisions to include participation in drug
court programs as eligible for a fee exemption.
FILM TAX CREDITS
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the legislative process, caps the maximum
amount of tax credits for state-certified
productions at $180 million.
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the legislative process, changes the limitation
on expenditures for Above the Line services
that are eligible for motion picture investor
credits to 40% of total production
expenditures in the state.
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the legislative process, provides for recovery
of motion picture investor tax credits issued in
violation of the tax credit law or its
administrative interpretation and those issued
to an investor convicted of a criminal
violation related to such tax credits.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
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the governor, increases the investigation fee

for money transmission agents from $300 to
$800 and increases the maximum fee limit
from $3,000 to $6,000.
Additionally, HB316 increases the
annual renewal fee for money transmitters
from $300 to $600 and increases the
maximum fee limit from $3,000 to $6,000.
The proposed law also eliminates the
imposition of the applications for renewal of
licenses to transmit money or sell checks.
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the governor, increases the initial application,
survey and license fee for a license to make
consumer loans from $500 to $600 and
increases the annual renewal fee from $450 to
$500.
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the governor's desk, reduces the pawnshop
license fee from $1,000 to $750. HB318
causes the fees imposed to be non-refundable
by removing the requirement that the
commissioner return to the applicant all
licensing fees upon denial.
The proposed law increases the annual
pawnbroker renewal fee from $300 to $450.
FUNDING
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the legislative process, authorizes money from
donations, appropriations or dedications to be
deposited in and credited into the Workforce
Training Rapid Response Fund and requires
public higher education institutions to
demonstrate a 25% private match before
receiving these funds.
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the governor, provides that interest earned on
the investment of monies in the Deepwater
Horizon Economic Damages Collection Fund
shall be credited to the fund and requires that
appropriations from the fund be made to the
Board of Regents to be distributed to higher
education.
FOSTER CARE
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House Bill 261, pending the governor's
signature, adds the training topic called
"reasonable and prudent parent standard" to
the foster care training program approved by
the Department of Children and Family
Services (DCFS) and requires foster
caregivers to use the standard.
HB261 stipulates that a caregiver is
not liable for harm caused to a child who
participates in an activity, if the caregiver
acted according with reasonable and prudent
parent standard.
Finally, HB261 requires DCFS to
develop rules to implement the new law.
GUN LEGISLATION
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the governor, provides for age-appropriate
classroom instruction on firearm accident
prevention and safety.
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the governor, allows bow hunters to carry any
caliber of firearm while bow hunting.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS/FUNERAL
ESTABLISHMENTS
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ACT No. 25 (HB554), defines a
"branch establishment" as a licensed funeral
establishment and authorizes a registered
intern, supervised by a state licensed
embalmer and funeral director, to perform
embalming.
HONEY
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Act No. 45 (HB79) exempts sellers of
home-produced raw honey from a food
labeling requirement.
HOSPITAL STABILIZATION
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which has completed the legislative process,
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requires the Department of Health and

Hospitals to levy and collect a hospital
assessment to be used to pay for a portion of
state costs associated with hospital services
provided to the Medicaid population, if the
state expands Medicaid by April 2016.
INSURANCE/HEALTH
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the governor, was amended to include
provisions of Senate Bill 163 which requires
health insurance issuers to reimburse
pharmacists for the payment of the fee when
the pharmacy or pharmacist makes a claim for
reimbursement of the fee and provides that
any failure to reimburse a pharmacist or his
agent shall be an act for which the health
insurance issuer or its agent may be
sanctioned by the Commissioner of Insurance
through administrative hearings.
INTERNET TAX
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For purposes of sales tax collection,
House Bill 555, which has been sent to the
governor's desk, expands the definition of a
dealer to include internet sales.
Under the proposed law, any company
with an affiliated agent who sells the same or
similar products under the same or similar
name with a cumulative total of $50,000 in
sales of tangible personal property in one year
would be considered dealers.
These
companies would be obligated to collect and
remit sales tax on behalf of the state and local
governments, including internet transactions
mailed to the state.
JUDGES
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the legislative process, changes the
composition of Election Section 1 and
Election Section 2 for the City Court of Baton
Rouge, and provides that two judges shall be
elected by Election Section 1, two judges shall
be elected by Election Section 2 and one judge

shall be elected from the entire territorial area
of the City of Baton Rouge at large.
LITTER CITATIONS
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the governor, doubles the amounts of all fines
for intentional littering, simple littering, gross
littering and commercial littering.
Additionally, HB33 distributes the
increase in fines to the retirement system of
the law enforcement agency that issued the
litter citation.
MEDICAID CLAIMS
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Act No. 21 (HB270) provides that the
Department of Health and Hospitals shall not
limit the period within which a health care
provider may submit a claim for payment for
a covered service rendered to a Medicaid
program enrollee to less than 365 days from
the date the service was provided.
MARIJUANA POSSESSION
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House Bill 149, which has been sent
to the governor, amends penalties for
possession of marijuana.
For a first conviction for the
possession of 14 grams or less, the offender
shall be sentenced to 15 days in a parish jail.
For a first conviction of possession of more
than 14 grams, the offender shall be sentenced
to a maximum of 6 months.
The prison sentence for a second
conviction is reduced from 5 years to 6
months. This changes a second conviction
from a felony to a misdemeanor.
For a third offense, the maximum
prison term is reduced to 2 years.
MORTGAGE LENDERS
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House Bill 354, headed to the
governor for executive approval, increases the
mortgage lender application license fee from
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$400 to $500 and increases the mortgage

originator application license fee from $100 to
$200.
HB354 increases the mortgage lender
annual license renewal fee from $300 to $400
and increases the mortgage originator annual
license renewal fee from $100 to $200.
MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS
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the governor, allows the Department. of
Public Safety and Corrections to develop a
system of electronic filing on inspection
information and print-on-demand motor
vehicle inspection certificates.
PRESCRIBED MARIJUANA
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the governor's desk, provides for the
therapeutic use of marijuana and provides for
the adoption of rules and regulations relating
to the prescribing, dispensing and producing
of marijuana for therapeutic use.
PRIVATIZATION REVIEW
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the governor, establishes requirements for
privatization contracts and for legislative
oversight and approval.
REAL ESTATE
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Act No. 24 (HB468) provides for
duties related to Realtors and licensees
representing clients and eliminates the option
of the client to waive this duty of the licensee.
REVENGE PORN
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the governor, creates the crime of nonconsensual disclosure of a private image
SOLAR TAX CREDITS
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the legislative process, lowers the maximum
sales credit to $10,000 per system. For leased

credits, FY15 outstanding claims are limited
to $19 million. The leased and purchased
credits are each capped at $10 million per
fiscal year for FY 16 and FY 17 and capped at
$5 million during FY 18 for claims filed prior
to January 1, 2018.
The bill limits a primary residence to
a single credit, electronic filing is mandatory
to claim the solar credit and installer financing
is prohibited.
No tax credits will be authorized,
issued, or granted for systems installed after
December 31, 2017.
SPECIALTY LICENSE PLATES
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Two prestige licenses plates are
pending House final passage:
Act No. 6 (HB417) creates the
"Challenge ALS" special prestige license plate
and provides for an annual royalty fee of $30
and a handling fee of $3.50 for each plate to
offset administrative costs. Royalty fees will
go to the ALS Association
Louisiana-Mississippi Chapter or its successor
organization and used solely for ALS
research.
the governor, creates the "300th Anniversary
of the City of New Orleans" specialty license
plate. The Department of Public Safety and
Corrections would collect a $15 annual royalty
fee and a handling fee of $3.50 on each plate
to offset administrative costs. Royalty fees
go to the 2018 NOLA Foundation for the
planning and development of a series of
cultural events and activities surrounding the
300th anniversary of the City of New Orleans.
STEAMSHIP PILOTS
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Act No. 18 (HB572) redefines the
"board of examiners" to mean the Board of
Examiners for New Orleans and Baton Rouge
Steamship Pilots for the Mississippi River and
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gives the board authority to make pilot

recommendations to the governor to fill
vacancies.
TAX EXEMPTIONS/TAX CREDITS
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Beginning July 1, 2015, through the
60th day after final adjournment of the 2016
Regular Session (August 5, 2016), House
Concurrent Resolution 8 suspends the
exemption for business utilities as to the
0.97% state sales and use tax levy for sales of
steam, water, electric power or energy, and
natural gas.
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the legislative process, increases the tax levied
on cigarettes from 36 per pack to 50 per
pack, thereby increasing the tax to 86 per
pack of 20 cigarettes.
Vapor products and electronic
cigarettes are defined and subjected to a tax of
5 cents per milliliter of nicotine liquid.
Finally, HB119 creates the Tobacco
Tax Medicaid Match Fund to receive the
tobacco tax increases levied by this bill.
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the legislative process, eliminates the 3-year
carry-back option of net operating losses in
corporate income taxation, and instead
provides that the amount of a net operating
loss for any tax year beginning on or after
January 1, 2000, may be deducted from net
income in any of the twenty years
immediately following the year in which the
loss occurred. For all claims for this
deduction on any return filed on or after July
1, 2015, regardless of the taxable year to
which the return relates, no refund shall be
allowed.
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the legislative process, reduces the amount of
corporate income tax exclusions and
deductions to 28%.
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the legislative process, reduces certain income
and franchise tax credits to 28% beginning

with all forms filed on or after July 1, 2015.
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the legislative process, prohibits eligibility of
a business with NAICS Code of 44, 45, or 722
from receiving benefits for projects whose
contract is not entered into before July 1,
2015, unless an advance notification for the
project was filed prior to July 1, 2015, and the
related claim for benefits is filed on or after
July 1, 2016. Additionally HB635 provides
the provisions of HB635 relative to the
reduction of the amount of the rebates sunsets
on June 30, 2018.
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the legislature, provides for the carry forward
rather than the refund of the tax credits for ad
valorem taxes paid to local government on
inventory, natural gas used in storage
facilities, offshore vessels and land-line
telephone companies. HB805 allows 75% of
the amount of credit in excess of tax liabilities
to be refunded and allows the 25% balance to
be carried forward.
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the legislative process, allows the $25 per
child education tax credit only if the tuition
expense deduction for private school tuition is
not taken.
Additionally, Senate Bill 93 requires
the Board of Regents to implement the
Student Assessment for a Valuable Education
(SAVE) Credit Program for each student
enrolling at a public institution of higher
education. Each student assessed shall be
granted a SAVE credit against income, sales
and use, gasoline and special fuel taxes equal
to the individual amount of a SAVE
assessment. The amount of each credit must
not exceed the average household tax liability
in Louisiana for the total of such taxes as
determined and published by the Department
of Revenue no later than June 30 of each
fiscal year.
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The SAVE credit is a transferable,

non-refundable credit against the tax liability
set forth above of a student, or his parent or
legal guardian, which must be transferred to
the board and used solely for each student
enrolled in a public institution of higher
education on and after July 1, 2015.
By June 30 of each fiscal year, the
board must certify to the department the total
headcount enrollment at public institutions of
higher education from the previous fall. The
department then must determine the total
amount of the credit and transfer from the
current collections of taxes that amount to the
treasurer. Upon receipt of the funds, the
treasurer is directed to transfer or deposit the
funds into the Higher Education Initiatives
Fund.
The Board of Regents is required to
distribute all funds appropriated from the
Higher Education Initiatives Fund derived
from the SAVE Credit program to public
institutions of higher education.
TOPS
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House Bill 462 , which has been sent
to the governor, makes changes to the TOPS
curriculum and the Early Start Assessment
Test.
HB462 changes the social studies
curriculum requirements to include Civics
among the specified course choices and
removes Economics, AP Macroeconomics, or
AP Microeconomics as possible choices.
The proposed law also changes the
curriculum requirements for students
graduating from high school in 2017-18 and
thereafter to align the curriculum in all areas
to receive a career diploma.
Finally, HB462 adds that a student
may be eligible for a TOPS-Tech Early Start
Award if he attains at least 15 on the English
section and 15 on the mathematics section of
the ACT or equivalent on the SAT or attains
a silver level score on the assessments of the

ACT WorkKeys system.
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the governor's desk, eliminates automatic
increases in TOPS awards when tuition goes
up and caps TOPS awards per student to the
amount awarded in Fiscal Year 2016.
SB48 authorizes the legislature to
increase TOPS award amounts in any year.
SB48 also requires that the minimum
ACT score to receive a TOPS academic award
shall be expressed in whole number
increments instead of rounded to the whole
number.
TRADEMARKS AND TRADE NAMES
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the governor, authorizes persons to specify
names of partnerships and nonprofit
corporations by filing a signed application
with the Secretary of State who is required to
reserve specified names available for use for
a nonrenewable period of 120 days. HB394
also provides the right to transfer specified,
reserved names to a transferee through a
signed application with the Secretary of State.
HB394 repeals provisions for names of
corporations generally, foreign corporations,
and limited liability companies. HB394 also
repeals the extension and reservation periods
of present law, as well as antiquated language
allowing the Secretary of State to collect a $5
fee to reserve a trade name, trademark or
service mark
TRANSPORTATION
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the governor, appropriates from the
Transportation Trust Fund to the Office of
State Police:
$40 million for FY2015-16,
$25 million for FY2016-17, and
$10 million in each fiscal year thereafter.
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the legislative process, increases the fees

charged by the Department of Public Safety
and Corrections, Office of Motor Vehicles, for
each certificate of title from $18.50 to $68.50
and for each salvage title, from $18.50 to
$68.50.
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House Bill 618, a proposed
constitutional amendment to authorize public
funds to capitalize a state infrastructure bank,
has completed the legislative process and will
be submitted to voters at the statewide
election to be held on October 24, 2015.
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the governor, creates the Louisiana State
Transportation Infrastructure Bank and
provides for the transfer of proceeds of
Transportation Mobility Fund to the bank and
would allow low-interest loans to parishes and
municipalities to help pay for transportation
projects.
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the governor, makes revisions to the factors
and process that the Department of
Transportation and Development uses to
prioritize projects to be included in the
Highway Priority Program.
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Senate Bill 202, a proposed
constitutional amendment which has
completed the legislative process, renames the
Budget Stabilization Fund to the Budget and
Transportation Stabilization Trust and
establishes the Budget Stabilization Subfund.
Beginning in Fiscal Year 2016, excess
mineral revenue is to be deposited to the
Budget Stabilization Subfund up to $500
million. Once that occurs, at the beginning of
the next fiscal year, the excess mineral
revenue is to deposited into the Transportation
Stabilization Subfund until that balance equals
$500 million. The balance in each of the
subfunds is to be maintained at $500 million.
After that, excess mineral revenue is to
be deposited into the state general fund. The
money in the Transportation Stabilization
Subfund shall be used exclusively for

planning, design, construction and
maintenance connected with the state highway
priority program, with at least 20% funding
for the Intermodal Connector Program (ports).
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Senate Bill 259, which has been sent
to the governor, creates the Budget and
Transportation Stabilization Trust and
provides for the use of monies in the Trust.
UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS
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the governor, increases the available monies
expended from the Motor Fuel Underground
Storage Tank Trust Fund from $1 million to
$1.5 million per accidental spill for the
rehabilitation and remediation of soil,
groundwater and surface water at motor fuel
contaminated underground storage tank sites.
UTILITY TERRAIN VEHICLES
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the governor, authorizes the use of utility
terrain vehicles (UTV) and provides for their
operation, safety features and registration.
VETERANS
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Under present law, a "qualifying
disability" is defined to mean 100%
permanent total disability rating or permanent
and total unemployability disability rating as
determined by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans
Affairs and certified by the secretary for the
La. Dept. of Veterans Affairs in a final
adjudication of the initial rating decision.
Act No. 77 (HB425) adds a prohibition
that the initial rating decision cannot apply to
a federal rating decision predating service in
the La. National Guard.
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the governor, allows colleges and universities
to apply to the Board of Regents to be
designated a Governors Military and
Veteran Friendly Campus.
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VETO SESSION
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House Resolution 183, which has
completed the legislative process, expresses
the intention and support of the House to meet
in veto session if the governor vetoes any
appropriation or funding the legislature has
provided for healthcare and higher education.
relative to the Public Service Commission.
FAILED TO PASS
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HB10 would have authorized a
member of the Teachers' Retirement System
of Louisiana to purchase credit for service as
a teacher at an out-of-state nonpublic school.
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HB66 would have provided for setting
tuition and fees at public postsecondary
education institutions.
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HB70 would have doubled the amount
of the earned income tax credit.
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HB165 would have increased the
assessment from $25 to $50 that the Louisiana
State Board of Medical Examiners collects
annually for the treatment of healthcare
providers.
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HB166 would have provided for the
return of schools from the Recovery School
District to the local school system.
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HB168 would have provided for
tuition and fees for postbaccalaureate
programs at public colleges and universities.
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HB315 would have increased fees for
check-cashers.
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HB359 would have required sex
education instruction in Orleans Parish.
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HB418 would have banned the
practice of collecting teacher and public
employee union dues through automatic
payroll deductions.
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HB711 would have provided for fees
relative to the Louisiana Cosmetology Act.
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HB758 would have provided for the
appropriation of tax expenditures in the
General Appropriation Bill and the executive
budget.
*
HB786 would have increased fees
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HOUSE NOTES

Louisiana House of Representatives

The 2015 Regular Legislative Session

ANGEL INVESTOR TAX CREDITS

executive director of the Coastal Protection

and consumption of an alcoholic beverage in

children who are deaf, hard of hearing or

congressional district and submit the minutes

the governor, increases the investigation fee

requires the Department of Health and

be elected by Election Section 2 and one judge

$400 to $500 and increases the mortgage

sales credit to $10,000 per system. For leased

gives the board authority to make pilot

and franchise tax credits to 28% beginning

The SAVE credit is a transferable,

a silver level score on the assessments of the

the legislative process, increases the fees

Subfund shall be used exclusively for

relative to the Public Service Commission.

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