Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 46, § 460.4. Educational opportunities to promote self-sufficiency

A. The legislature hereby finds that an employment-focused program has succeeded in reducing public assistance rolls by focusing on the importance of work as a way of escaping poverty; education and employment can give public assistance recipients the literacy, knowledge, and aptitudes to obtain and retain private career-path employment; that these programs retain their importance in reducing public assistance dependency; that new federal legislation places an increased emphasis on employment and allows the combining of employment-related activities with educational activities and that to the extent that they can be funded under the new federal welfare reform program without hindering the other federally recognized goals, they should be funded.

B. Repealed by Acts 2003, No. 58, § 2.

C. Within this Section, “educational activities” refers to the following educational activities funded by the Department of Children and Family Services in the state 1995-96 Fiscal Year, but not countable towards the federal participation requirements of 42 U.S.C. 407 as amended in 1996:

D. The department shall report to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare on or before August 15, 1997, and quarterly thereafter, regarding implementation of the provisions of this Section and to what extent the investment level shall be reached for the fiscal year.

F. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the legislature from appropriating state funds for the educational activities defined in this Section.