These committees address a wide range of issues such as environmental quality, education, labor relations and more .

One factor that allows for this is that the Governor usually has support on both sides of the aisle when he first enters office so his appointees, including the senate president, are usually confirmed easily.

Beauvais resigned after only three months in 1830 to run in the special election to fill the post.

The new senate president, Jacques Dupré, became the new acting governor until he resigned in 1831 and was replaced by governor-elect André B. Roman.

During the Civil War there were two lieutenant governors, one union, and one confederate, as there were two separate state governments.

From the end of the Reconstruction in 1877 until the appointment of John Hainkel in 2000, the senate chair was held by Democrats.

In 1976, with the implementation of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, the lieutenant governor assumed executive duties and the gavel once again passed to a senate-elected president.

[5] The reinstatement of the elected senate presidency and the installation of a new constitution brought with it something Louisiana had not seen since the 1850s: a two-party system.

Alario retained the position when Democrat John Bel Edwards was elected in 2015.

In 2020, Republican Patrick Page Cortez was elected senate president when Alario retired due to term limits.

If a senator supports the governor's agenda the president may promote them to more powerful committees, or even appoint them chairman or vice chairmanships.

Upon the petition of a majority of the members of the legislature the President along with the Speakers calls a special session.