(The Center Square) — Louisiana lawmakers eliminated 25 boards and commissions this year in an effort to clean up dormant pieces of state government, but a new legislative audit suggests the purge may not be finished.

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor identified 15 additional boards that are inactive, disbanded or never fully organized and recommended lawmakers consider abolishing them or taking steps to make them functional. Another 22 entities are officially listed as active despite having no meeting notices or minutes posted since at least the end of 2022.

The findings come just months after lawmakers approved House Bill 861 by Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Pineville, specifically targeting inactive boards and commissions.

Gov. Jeff Landry signed the measure May 29 as Act 571, and it took effect Aug. 1. The final legislation abolished 25 boards, commissions, committees and similar entities, including the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, Equal Pay Commission, Energy Code Commission, Latino Commission and Waste Tire Task Force.

The law explicitly cited the Legislative Auditor’s 2025 report, declaring that abolishing inactive government entities was in the public interest and that lawmakers intended to act on the auditor’s previous recommendations.

It passed overwhelmingly, with the Senate approving it 34-0 and the House ultimately concurring in Senate amendments 96-0.

Now auditors have supplied lawmakers with another potential cleanup list.

Among the 15 entities still identified as inactive is the North Bossier Levee and Drainage District Board of Commissioners, which legally exists but has no members. Lawmakers considered abolishing it a decade ago, but the provision was stripped from legislation before passage.

The Coastal Louisiana Levee Consortium, designed to coordinate coastal parishes and levee districts, has not met since December 2022 because its membership requirements have made obtaining a quorum difficult. Its representative recommended repealing the law creating it.

The Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel, meanwhile, has not met since August 2011 because of unfilled appointments, according to the auditor.

Auditors also found 22 entities still classified as active despite having no posted meetings since Dec. 31, 2022. They include the Louisiana Tax Institute, Veterans Affairs Commission, Central Louisiana Regional Infrastructure Beltway Commission and several port and economic-development entities. Five do not even have members identified in the state’s database.

The report accounts for this year’s legislative cleanup separately. It notes that 10 other inactive boards and 11 other boards classified as active despite years without reported meetings were abolished during the 2026 session and will be removed from the database before the 2027 reporting period.