Terms Used In Louisiana Children's Code 791.5

  • 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

            A. The Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice shall report statistical data indicating the effectiveness of this program to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget for use by the committee in consideration of continuation or expansion of the program.

            B. The provisions of this Chapter with respect to any parish which has a truancy assessment service center shall be operational subject to appropriation by the legislature to the commission.

            C. The commission may use appropriated funds to provide for the reasonable costs of administering the provisions of this Chapter and to provide funding for the local truancy assessment service centers.

            Acts 2001, No. 745, §1; Acts 2004, No. 570, §1; Acts 2007, No. 169, §1, eff. June 27, 2007; Acts 2023, No. 387, §1, eff. June 14, 2023.