Rule Text
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.
Amendment history: 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.
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
This rule explains how truancy assessment centers get funded and tracked. These centers help handle cases where kids are missing too much school. The rule sets up a system to check whether the centers are actually working.
A state agency, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice, must collect information showing whether the program is successful. This agency sends that information to a legislative budget committee. Lawmakers use this data to decide whether to keep funding the program or expand it to more areas.
The rule also makes clear that truancy centers only operate if the legislature actually provides money for them. Having a law that allows these centers to exist is not enough. The legislature has to approve funding each time.
Finally, the commission can use the money it receives to cover its own costs of running the program and to pay for local truancy centers in different parishes. This means the money can go toward both state level administration and the actual local centers that work directly with families and schools.
