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Senate adopts technical amendments to SB 379 renaming agency offices and clarifying fund deposits
Summary
SB 379, a reorganization and cleanup measure, was amended on the floor to clarify where royalty audit collections are deposited and to remove certain confirmation items; the amended bill passed on final passage.
The Senate adopted amendments to SB 379, a departmental reorganization and cleanup bill that updates office titles and adjusts technical references following last year’s reorganization.
Sponsor Sen. Henskins told colleagues SB 379 "is a cleanup bill" and described amendments to ensure royalty-audit collections are deposited into the mineral and energy operation funds and to remove confirmations of some mid-level employees that had been picked up in committee. The Senate adopted the amendment without objection and later passed the bill by recorded vote; the clerk announced 31 yays and 0 nays.
Floor discussion noted the bill changes references from "commissioner of conservation" to "secretary," renames the LSU Center of Energy Studies as the LSU Energy Institute and makes related technical edits. The sponsor said the bill "changes office of mineral resources to offices of state resources" and that the amendments correct deposit and confirmation language.
The Senate ordered the bill engrossed and passed to third reading where appropriate steps for enrollment and transmission will follow.
