Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3473 – Each quarter, the office shall prepare and furnish to the joint committee a prioritized list of projects based on the applications received by the office during that quarter. The joi
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3473
- Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
- 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.
- Joint committee: means the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works, functioning as a joint legislative committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Office: means the office of multimodal commerce within the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Waterway: means any navigable bayou, canal, channel, or river, or portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
Each quarter, the office shall prepare and furnish to the joint committee a prioritized list of projects based on the applications received by the office during that quarter. The joint committee shall receive the prioritized list of projects from the office for each of the first three quarters of the year, and shall call a public hearing within thirty days of receiving the list in order to receive public testimony regarding any project on the list. At such hearing, the joint committee shall vote to either accept, reject, or modify the list. Each quarter, the office shall reprioritize the list of projects to reflect the cumulative list of projects recommended by the office. After application recommendations for the last quarter are made by the office, the office shall submit the final waterway dredging and deepening priority program for the ensuing fiscal year to the joint committee for approval. Prior to the convening of the regular session of the legislature, the joint committee shall hold a public hearing for the purpose of reviewing the final program for the ensuing fiscal year. Prior to such hearing, the office shall publish the appropriate official notice on the department‘s website. The final program shall be based upon the anticipated revenues to be appropriated by the legislature or other funding obligation authority and the projects shall be listed in order of priority. When this final construction program is presented to the legislature for funding or funding obligation authority for the ensuing fiscal year, the legislature shall not add any projects to this final construction program. Any project recommended by the office and approved by the joint committee for which funds are unavailable in the fiscal year but for which it was approved shall remain on the prioritized list of projects and shall be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
Acts 2017, No. 382, §1, eff. July 1, 2017.