OFFICIAL JOURNAL SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 127— BY SENATOR LONG OF THE A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To commend Colonel Mike Edmonson, Superintendent of State SENATE Police, on receiving the 2013 Buford Pusser National Law OF THE Enforcement Award. STATE OF LOUISIANA _______ Reported without amendments. THIRTY-THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 128— _______ BY SENATORS GALLOT, KOSTELKA, LONG, RISER AND THOMPSON AND REPRESENTATIVES SHADOIN AND JEFFERSON Thirty-Ninth Regular Session of the Legislature A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Under the Adoption of the To commend and congratulate Terry and Rosy Bromell on their Constitution of 1974 fiftieth wedding anniversary. _______ Senate Chamber Reported without amendments. State Capitol Baton Rouge, Louisiana SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 25— BY SENATOR GALLOT Tuesday, June 4, 2013 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To urge and request the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State The Senate was called to order at 10:20 o'clock A.M. by Hon. University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and the John A. Alario Jr., President of the Senate. governor to keep the Huey P. Long Medical Center open and viable. Morning Hour Reported without amendments. CONVENING ROLL CALL SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 57— BY SENATORS MARTINY, APPEL, CORTEZ, CROWE, GUILLORY, The roll being called, the following members answered to their JOHNS, LONG, MILLS, NEVERS, PEACOCK, PERRY, THOMPSON, names: WALSWORTH, WARD AND WHITE AND REPRESENTATIVES STUART BISHOP, BURFORD, HENRY BURNS, CARMODY, CHANEY, CONNICK, FANNIN, GUINN, HARRIS, HENRY, HILL, HODGES, HOFFMANN, PRESENT HOWARD, IVEY, LOPINTO, MACK, ORTEGO, PEARSON, POPE, PUGH, RICHARD, SCHRODER, SIMON, STOKES AND TALBOT Mr. President Erdey Peacock A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Allain Gallot Riser To urge and request the various departments to take certain actions Amedee Johns Smith, G. regarding the commercial construction and operation by Planned Broome LaFleur Smith, J. Parenthood Gulf Coast of a facility to provide abortions in Buffington Long Walsworth Louisiana. Chabert Martiny Ward Crowe Morrish Reported without amendments. Donahue Nevers Total - 22 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 64— ABSENT BY SENATOR NEVERS A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Adley Guillory Perry To urge and request the Department of Education to establish a study Appel Heitmeier Peterson group to investigate the current state of agricultural education in Brown Kostelka Tarver elementary and secondary schools and make recommendations Claitor Mills Thompson to the legislature and the State Board of Elementary and Cortez Morrell White Secondary Education with respect to possible improvements in Dorsey-Colomb Murray agricultural education and the possible implementation of a pilot Total - 17 program for an agricultural immersion curriculum. The President of the Senate announced there were 22 Senators Reported without amendments. present and a quorum. SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 98— BY SENATORS JOHNS AND MORRISH AND REPRESENTATIVES Prayer DANAHAY, GEYMANN, HENSGENS AND KLECKLEY A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION The prayer was offered by Brother Charles E. Porter Jr., To express support of and to provide authority for actions by the following which the Senate joined in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and flag of the United States of America. Agricultural and Mechanical College for the strategic collaboration among the division of administration, the Reading of the Journal Department of Health and Hospitals, and the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and On motion of Senator Martiny, the reading of the Journal was Mechanical College in planning for a new model of health care dispensed with and the Journal of June 3, 2013, was adopted. delivery in the Lake Charles region. Message from the House Reported without amendments. SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 101— CONCURRING IN BY SENATORS WHITE, BROOME, DORSEY-COLOMB AND WARD SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To urge and request the Department of Health and Hospitals to June 4, 2013 protect certain hospitals from the negative financial consequences of the closure of Earl K. Long Medical Center by To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate: adequately compensating those hospitals for their increased burden of providing care to the poor and uninsured residents of I am directed to inform your honorable body that the House of the greater Baton Rouge region. Representatives has finally concurred in the following Senate Concurrent Resolutions: Reported without amendments. 1063 Page 2 SENATE 33rd DAY'S PROCEEDINGS June 4, 2013 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 102— Message from the House BY SENATOR ADLEY A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To establish a task force to study and make recommendations relative HOUSE CONFEREES APPOINTED to the authority for and use of the design-build method for contracts by public entities and to require such task force to June 3, 2013 make recommendations for guidelines for utilization of the design-build method of contracting for publicly funded projects. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Speaker of Reported without amendments. the House of Representatives has appointed the following members, SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 108— on the part of the House of Representatives, to confer, with a like BY SENATOR HEITMEIER committee from the Senate, on the disagreement to House Bill No. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 589 by Representative Abramson: To authorize and direct the Department of Health and Hospitals to submit a request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Representatives Abramson, Huval and N. Landry. Services to extend Louisiana's Section 1115a demonstration waiver (Project No. 11-W-00252/6) for the Greater New Orleans Respectfully submitted, Community Health Connection and to authorize and direct the ALFRED W. SPEER governor and the secretary of the Department of Health and Clerk of the House of Representatives Hospitals to identify a source or sources for the matching of non-federal funds required under the extended waiver. Message from the House Reported without amendments. HOUSE CONFEREES APPOINTED SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 78— June 3, 2013 BY SENATOR AMEDEE A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate: To urge and request the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on House and I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Speaker of Governmental Affairs to meet and function as a joint committee the House of Representatives has appointed the following members, to study and make recommendations with respect to the on the part of the House of Representatives, to confer, with a like appropriate use of campaign funds. committee from the Senate, on the disagreement to House Bill No. 657 by Representative Abramson: Reported with amendments. Representatives Abramson, G. Jackson and W. Bishop. SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 87— BY SENATORS HEITMEIER, MILLS AND THOMPSON Respectfully submitted, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ALFRED W. SPEER To authorize and direct the Department of Health and Hospitals to Clerk of the House of Representatives submit a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services that replaces upper payment limit funding and creates funding pools to replace Message from the House upper payment limit payments. HOUSE CONFEREES APPOINTED Reported with amendments. June 3, 2013 Respectfully submitted, ALFRED W. SPEER To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate: Clerk of the House of Representatives I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Speaker of the House of Representatives has appointed the following members, Message from the House on the part of the House of Representatives, to confer, with a like committee from the Senate, on the disagreement to House Bill No. HOUSE CONFEREES APPOINTED 720 by Representative Abramson: June 3, 2013 Representatives Abramson, Dove and Moreno. To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate: Respectfully submitted, ALFRED W. SPEER I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Speaker of Clerk of the House of Representatives the House of Representatives has appointed the following members, on the part of the House of Representatives, to confer, with a like committee from the Senate, on the disagreement to House Bill No. Message from the House 414 by Representative Huval: DISAGREEMENT TO HOUSE BILL Representatives Huval, Cromer and Hunter. June 4, 2013 Respectfully submitted, ALFRED W. SPEER To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate: Clerk of the House of Representatives I am directed to inform your honorable body that the House of Representatives has refused to concur in the proposed Senate Amendment(s) to House Bill No. 1 by Representative Fannin, and ask the President to appoint on the part of the Senate a committee to confer with a like committee from the House on the disagreement; 1064 33rd DAY'S PROCEEDINGS Page 3 SENATE June 4, 2013 and to inform your honorable body that the Speaker of the House of The resolution was read by title and placed on the Calendar for Representatives has appointed the following members as conferees a second reading. on the part of the House: SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 182— Representatives Fannin, Kleckley, Harris, Edwards, K. Jackson, BY SENATORS HEITMEIER AND ALARIO and Henry. A RESOLUTION To express the sincere condolences