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            A. To coordinate and strengthen efforts to reduce losses from future disasters across the state, the chief resilience officer shall contribute to all statewide planning efforts related to resilience and risk mitigation and shall develop a strategic statewide resilience report to protect the state from multiple threats, prioritizing the risks from inland and coastal flooding. The report shall include but is not limited to the following:

            (1) Articulation of the state’s resilience goals and objectives.

            (2) Utilization of best available science, including a range of future projections, to identify and implement policies, projects, and programs that achieve the state’s resilience goals and objectives.

            (3) Prioritization of agency-identified adaptation actions based on a vulnerability assessment of risks to agency mission areas, assets, services, and populations served from multiple environmental threats.

            (4) Descriptions of agency strategic actions.

            B. The statewide resilience report shall be updated every year with the latest available science and updated conditions.

            C. The office of resilience shall submit the annual statewide resilience report to the legislature and to the David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library in accordance with the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 24:772 by February fifteenth every year.

            Acts 2023, No. 315, §1, eff. June 13, 2023.