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Committee reduces membership, advances Empowering Families to Live Well council overhaul
Summary
Senate Bill 104, which revises the Empowering Families to Live Well council by shrinking membership and changing meeting frequency, was amended and reported as amended to the Senate floor.
Senator Price presented Senate Bill 104 to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare on April 16, proposing changes to the Empowering Families to Live Well council aimed at making it more manageable and effective.
The bill reduces the council’s membership from 35 to 23 and changes the meeting schedule from six times per year to quarterly meetings. A technical amendment offered by committee staff and accepted by the sponsor revises the statutory co-chair language so that the chair of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee (or the chair’s designee) serves as the senate-appointed co-chair when the previously appointed senate member is removed under the membership reductions.
Tom Costanza of the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops told the committee the council’s work, since initial legislation in February 2018, is intended to bring departments, nonprofits, businesses and universities together to address poverty, measure outcomes and recommend policy. Senator Gerald Boudreaux moved to report the bill favorable; the committee adopted the staff amendment and reported SB 104 as amended with no objections.
The bill will proceed to the Senate floor.
