HOUSE BILLS

HB-4: Authorizes any clerk of court to establish an ancillary office during a state of emergency; HB-6: Extends time limit for certain investment deadlines under the CAPCO program due to the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; HB-7: Provides relative to payment of certain expenses related to the legislative offices of certain temporarily displaced legislators; HB-8: Provides relative to oyster lease renewals in 2006; HB-9: Requires elected officials and appointed state officials to disclose information regarding certain contracts and subcontracts; HB-24: Increases deduction from state income taxes for federal income taxes paid by the amount of presidential disaster area relief credits; HB-35: Provides for a change of the time and date when the assessor of Orleans Parish has to complete the work on preparing and making up the assessment lists for the year 2006; HB-41: Provides for the computation of borrowed capital by corporations affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita which have incurred extraordinary debt; HB-44: Provides with respect to the deferment of tax payments where property subject to ad valorem taxation has been damaged during a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency; HB-46: Provides for the continuation of the homestead exemption and special assessments when property is damaged due to a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency; HB-135: Provides relative to the emergency powers of the commissioner of the Office of Financial Institutions relative to nondepository institutions; and HB-140: Provides relative to the balance in the Budget Stabilization Fund.