House of Delegates to Consider 8 Resolutions at Jan. 21 Meeting The House meeting begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel, 7000 Bluebonnet Blvd.The resolutions will be considered in the following order: 1. Resolution from the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization to amend the Standards for Tax Law to reduce the tax law CLE requirement from twenty (20) hours to eighteen (18) hours of approved tax law specialization CLE annually. 2. Resolution from the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization to adopt standards for Employment Law. 3. Resolution from the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization to adopt standards for Labor Law. 4. Resolution from the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization to approve new specialty in Health Law. 5. Resolution from the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization to adopt standards for Health Law (to be considered if House of Delegates approves Resolution #4). 6. Resolution from Past President James J. Davidson III to create a Christian Values Preservation Section and to adopt Bylaws of same. *WITHDRAWN* 7. Resolution from Section Council Chair Val P. Exnicios on behalf of the following sections to increase those sections’ dues by $5.00 annually, commensurate with LSBA’s increase in section administrative fee: Animal Law; Antitrust Law; Appellate; Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law; Bankruptcy Law; Bench and Bar; Civil Law and Litigation; Class Action, Mass Tort and Complex Litigation; Consumer Protection Law; Fidelity, Surety and Construction Law; Government and Public Law; Health Law; Immigration Law; Insurance, Tort, Workers Compensation and Admiralty Law; International Law; Labor and Employment Law; Minority Involvement; Solo and Small Firms; and Trusts, Estate, Probate and Immovable Property Law. 8. Resolution from the Access to Justice Commission proposing to secure funding for the state’s Legal Services Corporations through an increase in the annual notarial license renewal fees required of non-attorney notaries, and authorization to seek necessary legislative action to obtain such funding. 9. Resolution from the Criminal Justice Committee to: Support state efforts to adopt sentencing and correction policies that reflect evidence-based and data-driven solutions to reducing incarceration rates; and Support policies that will reinvest savings from reductions in incarceration into the criminal justice system to adequately fund indigent defense, create access to quality mental health and addition services, assure validated risk needs assessment, improve community supervision, provide for job placement services, develop prison alternative programs that better protect the public, and reduce collateral consequences to incarceration. Urge the judiciary, district attorneys, public defenders, sheriffs, and all stakeholders in the criminal justice system to support the implementation of policy recommendations of the Justice Reinvestment Task Force, in accordance with the above recommendations. Also on the agenda is the election of members to the House Liaison Committee and the Budget Committee. To review the complete agenda and to read the full proposed resolutions, click here.