Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:16.6 – A.(1) The commissioner shall ensure the website includes an employment and payroll database that is electronically searchable by the public.
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:16.6
- Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Appropriation: means an authorization by the legislature to a budget unit for a program to expend from public funds a sum of money, for purposes designated, under the procedure prescribed in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Appropriation act: means an act of the legislature that authorizes the expenditure of state money. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Authorized positions: means the number of positions approved by the legislature in an appropriation bill to be funded by the salaries continuing category of the accounting system for the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Budget unit: means any spending agency of the state which is declared to be a budget unit by the division of administration and which is identified for accounting purposes by a five-digit number code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:16.1
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) eff. until July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier. See Acts 2023, No. 446.
A.(1) The commissioner shall ensure the website includes an employment and payroll database that is electronically searchable by the public.
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.
A.(1) The commissioner shall establish an employment and payroll database.
(2) All state agencies shall be required to provide information pursuant to this Subpart.
NOTE: Subsection B eff. until July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier. See Acts 2023, No. 446.
B. The employment and payroll database shall have the following functionality:
(1) Search and aggregate records by agency.
(2) Search and aggregate salaries by job title.
(3) Search and aggregate records by Civil Service Classification.
(4) Search and aggregate records of employees by their enrolled retirement system.
(5) Download information yielded by a search of the database.
NOTE: Subsection B as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.
B. Repealed by Acts 2023, No. 446, §4, see Act.
C. The employment and payroll database shall include the following content:
(1) The name of the employing agency.
(2) The name of the employee.
(3) The job title and/or position.
(4) The salary or hourly wage of the employee.
(5) The total compensation paid to the employee the prior fiscal year, including overtime, stipends, and allowances, but excluding employee benefit payments and nontaxable employee reimbursements.
(6) Employer’s payroll benefit cost for the employee.
NOTE: Paragraph (C)(7) eff. until July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier. See Acts 2023, No. 446.
(7) The Louisiana Checkbook shall contain information regarding the number of authorized positions and the number of vacant positions for each institution of higher education and each budget unit contained in the General Appropriation Act and the Ancillary Appropriation Act.
NOTE: Paragraph (C)(7) as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.
(7) The commissioner may create a separate database but shall provide information regarding the number of authorized positions and the number of vacant positions for each institution of higher education and each budget unit contained in the General Appropriation Act and the Ancillary Appropriation Act.
Acts 2018, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2023, No. 446, §§ 3,4, see Act.