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50th DAY'S PROCEEDINGS<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 135—<br />
BY SENATOR MICHOT<br />
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION<br />
To continue the special committee created by Senate Concurrent<br />
Resolution No. 21 of the 2003 Regular Session to study and<br />
develop recommendations for standards and records<br />
management technologies for clerks of court's offices and to<br />
provide relative to the committee membership.<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 139—<br />
BY SENATOR JACKSON<br />
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION<br />
To urge and request the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget<br />
to create a task force to study the practices and standards<br />
followed by departments and agencies of the executive branch<br />
of state government, with respect to contracting with nonprofit<br />
organizations, in order to better assist such organizations in<br />
developing consistent professional standards of excellence<br />
applicable to such contracts.<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 141—<br />
BY SENATORS SMITH, ADLEY, BARHAM, CAIN, ELLINGTON, B.<br />
GAUTREAUX, HINES, SCHEDLER AND ULLO AND<br />
REPRESENTATIVE FANNIN<br />
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION<br />
To urge and request the president of the <strong>Louisiana</strong> Community and<br />
Technical College System to allocate three hundred fifty<br />
thousand dollars from Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education<br />
funds to the <strong>Louisiana</strong> State University Agricultural Center for<br />
use by the <strong>Louisiana</strong> Agriculture Education Office for the<br />
continued funding of administrative support of the state's<br />
agricultural education program.<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 145—<br />
BY SENATOR HOLDEN<br />
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION<br />
To direct the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the<br />
disparity in wages between direct service healthcare workers and<br />
the compensation of comparable healthcare workers.<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 149—<br />
BY SENATOR LENTINI<br />
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION<br />
To create the <strong>Louisiana</strong> Commission on Decision-Making of Persons<br />
with Cognitive Disabilities to study resources currently in place<br />
to assist such persons with decision-making and to determine<br />
the feasibility of implementing a surrogate decision-making<br />
program in <strong>Louisiana</strong> in order to ensure that people with<br />
cognitive disabilities have access to impartial assistance with<br />
decision-making.<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 151—<br />
BY SENATOR BAJOIE<br />
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION<br />
To request the House Committee on Health and Welfare and the<br />
Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to meet and function<br />
as a joint committ ee to study and make recommendations<br />
regarding assisted living communities in <strong>Louisiana</strong> to ensure that<br />
sound public policy, regulations, and laws are based upon best<br />
practices.<br />
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June 21, 2004<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 162—<br />
BY SENATORS CAIN, DUPLESSIS AND MICHOT<br />
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION<br />
To urge and request the <strong>Louisiana</strong> Tax Commission to extend the<br />
current moratorium and to advise the assessors for the parishes<br />
of the state that a moratorium has been instituted prohibiting<br />
the revocation of homestead exemptions for persons who have<br />
heretofore been granted the extension where such revocations<br />
would be based upon Attorney General Opinions, which<br />
opinions do not have the force of law, and to urge and request<br />
that the legislature appoint an advisory committee to study and<br />
make recommendations to the legislature regarding legislation as<br />
it relates to application of the homestead exemption.<br />
Respectfully submitted,<br />
CHARLES D. JONES<br />
Chairman<br />
The foregoing Senate Concurrent Resolutions were signed by<br />
the President of the Senate.<br />
Privilege Report of the Committee on<br />
Senate and Governmental Affairs<br />
ENROLLMENTS<br />
Senator Jones, Chairman on behalf of the Committee on Senate<br />
and Governmental Affairs, submitted the following report:<br />
June 22, 2004<br />
To the President and Members of the Senate:<br />
I am directed by your Committee on Senate and Governmental<br />
Affairs to submit the following report:<br />
The following Senate Resolutions have been properly enrolled:<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> RESOLUTION NO. 134—<br />
BY SENATOR ULLO<br />
A RESOLUTION<br />
To urge and request the Senate Committee on Education and the<br />
Senate Committee on Finance to meet in informational seminars<br />
prior to the 2005 Regular Session and be briefed by the staff of<br />
the Department of Education and the State Board of Elementary<br />
and Secondary Education on the methodology and calculations<br />
of the Minimum Foundation Program formula.<br />
<strong>SENATE</strong> RESOLUTION NO. 135—<br />
BY SENATORS ADLEY, CAIN AND N. GAUTREAUX<br />
A RESOLUTION<br />
To urge and request the <strong>Louisiana</strong> Community and Technical College<br />
System not to implement a modification or reduction in summer<br />
school classes or a conversion to a nine month work schedule<br />
for employees until the Board of Regents has reviewed the<br />
impact of such implementation and has submitted its findings<br />
to the Senate Committee on Education and the House<br />
Committee on Education.<br />
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