WHEREAS, to ensure that the state of Louisiana will not suffer a budget deficit due to fiscal year 1999-2000 appropriations exceeding actual revenues, prudent money management practices dictate that the best interests of the citizens of the state of Louisiana will be served by implementing a spending freeze throughout the executive branch of state government to achieve a state general fund savings of at least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) for the remainder of the 1999-2000 fiscal year;
NOW THEREFORE, I, M.J. "MIKE" FOSTER, JR., Governor of the state of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: The following departments, agencies, and/or budget units of the executive branch of the state of Louisiana, as described in and/or funded by appropriations through Act No.10 of the 1999 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature (hereafter Act No. 10), (hereafter "Units") shall reduce expenditure of funds, in the amounts shown below, that are appropriated to the Unit by Act No. 10 from the state general fund and/or from any other fund or source which by law reverts or is credited to the state general fund at the end of the state fiscal year:
| Executive Department Schedule 01 |
$5,094,428 |
| Secretary of State Budget Unit 04-139 |
$415,308 |
| Office of the Attorney General Budget Unit 04-141 |
$929,864 |
| Commissioner of Elections Budget Unit 04-144 |
$599,763 |
| Lieutenant Governor Budget Unit 04-146 |
$30,047 |
| State Treasurer Budget Unit 04-147 |
$181,085 |
| Agriculture and Forestry Budget Unit 04-147 |
$2,000,409 |
| Commissioner of Insurance Budget Unit 04-165 |
393,368 |
| Department of Economic Development Schedule 05 |
$930,164 |
| Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism Schedule 06 |
$1,611,780 |
| Department of Transportation and Development Schedule 07 |
$863,404 |
| Department of Public Safety and Corrections Public Safety
Services Schedule08 |
$3,380,795 |
| Department of Health and Hospitals Schedule 09 |
$22,456,291 |
| Department of Social Services Schedule 10 |
$2,063,695 |
| Department of Natural Resources Schedule 11 |
$716,087 |
| Department of Revenue Schedule 12 |
$2,978,673 |
| Department of Environmental Quality Schedule 13 |
$79,472 |
| Department of Labor Schedule 14 |
$173,147 |
| Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Schedule 16 |
$28,515 |
| Department of Civil Service Schedule 17 |
$110,228 |
| Louisiana Special Education Center Budget Unit 19-657 |
$59,357 |
| Office of Student Financial Assistance Budget Unit 19-661, except funding for |
$92,784 |
| Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) Louisiana Educational Television Authority Budget Unit 19-662 |
$276,897 |
| Council for Development of French in Louisiana Budget Unit 19-663 |
$9,253 |
| Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Budget Unit 19-666 |
$36,236 |
| Department of Education | $4,445,679 |
| Schedule 19 Department of Education budget units, except Budget Unit 19-695 (Minimum Foundation Program) Louisiana State University Medical Center Health Care Services Division Budget Unit 19-610 |
$43,271 |
SECTION 2:
SECTION 3: The commissioner is authorized to develop additional guidelines to facilitate the administration of this Order.SECTION 4: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect through June 30, 2000, unless amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded prior to that date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the state of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 7th day of December, 1999.
M.J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.
Governor
ATTEST BY
THE GOVERNOR
Fox McKeithen
Secretary of State