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Emerson LeBas Wright OFFICIAL JOURNAL Falconer Leger Zeringue Total - 102 OF THE The Speaker announced that there were 102 members present HOUSE OF and a quorum. REPRESENTATIVES Prayer OF THE Prayer was offered by Rev. Mark Sterner, Pastor of The Church in St. Amant. STATE OF LOUISIANA Pledge of Allegiance Rep. Abraham led the House in reciting the Pledge of THIRTY-FOURTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America. Reading of the Journal Forty-fourth Regular Session of the Legislature On motion of Rep. White, the reading of the Journal was Under the Adoption of the dispensed with. Constitution of 1974 On motion of Rep. White, the Journal of May 1, 2018, was adopted. House of Representatives State Capitol Suspension of the Rules Baton Rouge, Louisiana On motion of Rep. Lance Harris, the rules were suspended in order to allow the Committee on Health and Welfare to meet while Wednesday, May 2, 2018 the House was in session. The House of Representatives was called to order at 2:43 P.M., Petitions, Memorials, and by the Honorable Taylor Barras, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Communications The following petitions, memorials, and communications were Morning Hour received and read: ROLL CALL Message from the Senate The roll being called, the following members answered to their names: HOUSE BILLS PRESENT May 1, 2018 Mr. Speaker Foil Leopold To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the House of Abraham Franklin Lyons Representatives: Abramson Gaines Mack Amedee Garofalo Magee I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Senate has Anders Gisclair Marcelle finally passed the following House Bills: Armes Glover Marino Bacala Guinn McFarland House Bill No. 102 Bagley Hall Miguez Returned without amendments Bagneris Harris, J. Miller, D. Berthelot Harris, L. Miller, G. House Bill No. 112 Billiot Havard Morris, Jay Returned without amendments Bishop Hazel Morris, Jim Bouie Henry Muscarello House Bill No. 119 Brass Hensgens Norton Returned without amendments Brown, C. Hilferty Pearson Brown, T. Hill Pierre House Bill No. 153 Carmody Hodges Pope Returned without amendments Carpenter Hoffmann Pugh Carter, G. Hollis Pylant House Bill No. 165 Carter, R. Horton Reynolds Returned with amendments Carter, S. Howard Richard Chaney Hunter Schexnayder House Bill No. 174 Connick Huval Shadoin Returned with amendments Coussan Ivey Simon Cox Jackson Smith House Bill No. 218 Cromer James Stagni Returned without amendments Danahay Jefferson Stefanski Davis Jenkins Stokes House Bill No. 240 DeVillier Johnson Talbot Returned without amendments Duplessis Jordan Thibaut Dwight Landry, N. Thomas House Bill No. 242 Edmonds Landry, T. White Returned with amendments 1085 Page 2 HOUSE 34th Day's Proceedings - May 2, 2018 House Bill No. 466 SENATE BILL NO. 248— Returned with amendments BY SENATOR JOHNS AN ACT To amend and reenact Children's Code Art. 804(1), relative to House Bill No. 524 children; to provide certain definitions; to provide certain terms, Returned with amendments conditions, and procedures; and to provide for related matters. Respectfully submitted, Read by title. GLENN A. KOEPP SENATE BILL NO. 365— Secretary of the Senate BY SENATOR WARD AN ACT Message from the Senate To enact Chapter 20 of Title 6 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be comprised of R.S. 6:1371 through 1379, relative to ASKING CONCURRENCE IN the regulation of credit access loans; to enact the Louisiana SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS Credit Access Loan Act; to provide relative to credit access loans and payment plans; to provide certain terms, procedures, May 2, 2018 conditions, requirements, restrictions, prohibitions, exemptions, and definitions; to provide for certain charges; to provide To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the House of relative to default and penalties; to provide for certain powers Representatives: of the commissioner; and to provide for related matters. I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Senate has Read by title. adopted and asks your concurrence in the following Senate SENATE BILL NO. 433— Concurrent Resolutions: BY SENATOR CHABERT AN ACT Senate Concurrent Resolution Nos. 76 and 86 To amend and reenact R.S. 49:214.5.1(B)(13), (14) and (15) and to enact R.S. 49:214.5.1(16), relative to the Coastal Protection and Respectfully submitted, Restoration Authority Board; to provide for its membership; and to provide for related matters. GLENN A. KOEPP Secretary of the Senate Read by title. SENATE BILL NO. 534— Message from the Senate BY SENATOR MILKOVICH AN ACT SENATE BILLS To enact R.S. 14:2(B)(48) through (52) and 87.6, relative to abortion and feticide; to define abortion and feticide as "crimes of May 2, 2018 violence"; and to provide for related matters. To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the House of Read by title. Representatives: Suspension of the Rules I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Senate has finally passed the following Senate Bills: On motion of Rep. Dwight, the rules were suspended in order to take up and consider Introduction of Resolutions, House and House Senate Bill Nos. 94, 248, 365, 433, and 534 Concurrent at this time. Respectfully submitted, Introduction of Resolutions, House and House Concurrent GLENN A. KOEPP Secretary of the Senate The following members introduced the following entitled House and House Concurrent Resolutions, which were read the first time by Senate Bills and Joint Resolutions their titles and placed upon the calendar for their second reading: on First Reading HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 157— BY REPRESENTATIVES BARRAS, ABRAHAM, ABRAMSON, AMEDEE, The following Senate Bills and Joint Resolutions on first reading ANDERS, ARMES, BACALA, BAGLEY, BAGNERIS, BERTHELOT, were taken up, read, and placed upon the calendar for their second BILLIOT, BISHOP, BOUIE, BRASS, CHAD BROWN, TERRY BROWN, reading: CARMODY, CARPENTER, GARY CARTER, ROBBY CARTER, STEVE CARTER, CHANEY, CONNICK, COUSSAN, COX, CREWS, CROMER, DANAHAY, DAVIS, DEVILLIER, DUPLESSIS, DWIGHT, EDMONDS, SENATE BILL NO. 94— EMERSON, FALCONER, FOIL, FRANKLIN, GAINES, GAROFALO, BY SENATOR APPEL GISCLAIR, GLOVER, GUINN, HALL, JIMMY HARRIS, LANCE HARRIS, HAVARD, HAZEL, HENRY, HENSGENS, HILFERTY, HILL, HODGES, AN ACT HOFFMANN, HOLLIS, HORTON, HOWARD, HUNTER, HUVAL, IVEY, To amend and reenact R.S. 38:2191(B), relative to public contracts; JACKSON, JAMES, JEFFERSON, JENKINS, JOHNSON, JONES, JORDAN, to provide for payment of interest on amounts due for failure to NANCY LANDRY, TERRY LANDRY, LEBAS, LEGER, LEOPOLD, LYONS, MACK, MAGEE, MARCELLE, MARINO, MCFARLAND, pay progressive stage or final payments under certain MIGUEZ, DUSTIN MILLER, GREGORY MILLER, MORENO, JAY circumstances; and to provide for related matters. MORRIS, JIM MORRIS, MUSCARELLO, NORTON, PEARSON, PIERRE, POPE, PUGH, PYLANT, REYNOLDS, RICHARD, SCHEXNAYDER, SEABAUGH, SHADOIN, SIMON, SMITH, STAGNI, STEFANSKI, STOKES, Read by title. TALBOT, THIBAUT, THOMAS, WHITE, WRIGHT, AND ZERINGUE AND SENATORS ALARIO, ALLAIN, APPEL, BARROW, BISHOP, BOUDREAUX, CARTER, CHABERT, CLAITOR, COLOMB, CORTEZ, 1086 Page 3 HOUSE 34th Day's Proceedings - May 2, 2018 DONAHUE, ERDEY, FANNIN, GATTI, HEWITT, JOHNS, LAFLEUR, LAMBERT, LONG, LUNEAU, MARTINY, MILKOVICH, MILLS, MIZELL, Senate Concurrent Resolutions MORRELL, MORRISH, PEACOCK, PERRY, PETERSON, PRICE, RISER, Lying Over GARY SMITH, JOHN SMITH, TARVER, THOMPSON, WALSWORTH, WARD, AND WHITE A RESOLUTION The following Senate Concurrent Resolutions lying over were To commend the Honorable Michael E. "Mike" Danahay and to taken up and acted upon as follows: express enduring gratitude for his outstanding contributions to Beauregard and Calcasieu Parishes and the state of Louisiana, SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 48— particularly during his tenure as a distinguished member of the BY SENATOR MORRISH Louisiana House of Representatives. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To provide for legislative approval of the formula developed by the Read by title. State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education pursuant to Article VIII, Section 13(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana On motion of Rep. Dwight, and under a suspension of the rules, to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program of the resolution was adopted. education in all public elementary and secondary schools as well as to equitably allocate the funds to parish and city school HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 158— systems, and adopted by the board on March 13, 2018. BY REPRESENTATIVES FOIL, STEVE CARTER, AND SMITH A RESOLUTION Read by title. To commend the Louisiana State University gymnastics team on an outstanding 2018 season. Under the rules, the above resolution was referred to the Committee on Education. Read by title. On motion of Rep. Foil, and under a suspension of the rules, the Senate Bills and Joint Resolutions on resolution was adopted. Second Reading to be Referred HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 159— The following Senate Bills and Joint Resolutions on second BY REPRESENTATIVE SMITH reading to be referred were taken up, read, and referred to A RESOLUTION committees, as follows: To commend the Madison Preparatory Academy boys' basketball team on winning the 2018 Louisiana High School Athletic SENATE BILL NO. 121— Association Class 3A state championship. BY SENATOR PERRY AN ACT Read by title. To enact R.S. 42:1123(44), relative to an exception to the Code of Governmental Ethics; to provide for an exception to certain On motion of Rep. Smith, and under a suspension of the rules, prohibitions of pharmacists as public servants; to provide an the resolution was adopted. exception to allow a pharmacist to serve on a certain hospital service district; and to provide for related matters. House and House Concurrent Resolutions Lying Over Read by title. The following House and House Concurrent Resolutions lying Under the rules, the above bill was referred to the Committee on over were taken up and acted upon as follows: House and Governmental Affairs. HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 155— SENATE BILL NO. 325— BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHEXNAYDER BY SENATOR MILKOVICH A RESOLUTION AN ACT To express the support of the Louisiana House of Representatives for To enact R.S.