PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for the use of a consent agenda by certain school boards and parish governing authorities
This bill allows larger parish school boards and parish governing authorities in Louisiana to use a "consent agenda" at public meetings. Specifically, it applies to parishes with populations over 125,000 and municipalities with populations of 100,000 or more. When these bodies have more than 50 items on their agenda, they can vote on routine items without reading each description aloud, provided they first allow a time for public comments. Additionally, any single member of the board can remove an item from the consent agenda if someone objects and asks for it to be discussed individually, with the objection and reasons recorded in the meeting minutes.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Feb 16, 2024
Signed May 23, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 15, 2024 · House Apr 9, 2024
How they voted
34–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 38
May 15, 2024
D
Democratic12
83% Yea
R
Republican26
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 15, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 13, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 3, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (12-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Feb 16, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mike Johnson
RRepublican
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