*MAG030* 2/3/2023 9:44:37 AM MAG030
State of Arkansas 1
94th General Assembly 2
Regular Session, 2023 HR 1015 3
4
By: Representative Lundstrum 5
6
HOUSE RESOLUTION 7
TO RECOGNIZE THE SEV ENTY-SEVENTH SOUTHERN LEG ISLATIVE 8
CONFERENCE OF THE CO UNCIL OF STATE GOVER NMENTS 9
SOUTHERN OFFICE. 10
11
12
Subtitle 13
TO RECOGNIZE THE SEVENTY -SEVENTH SOUTHERN 14
LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE COUNCIL OF 15
STATE GOVERNMENTS SOUTHERN OFFICE. 16
17
WHEREAS, The Council of State Governments Southern Office (CSG South) 18
is a nonpartisan, nonprofit member organization that serves the southern 19
legislatures of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, 20
Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, 21
Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; and 22
23
WHEREAS, with regionally based leadership and perspective, and 24
national-level resources, CSG South provides southern legislators and 25
government staff with a wide variety of prog rams and services that facilitate 26
regional cooperation and encourage the exchange of information; and 27
28
WHEREAS, CSG South is governed by an Executive Committee made up of 29
legislative leadership, and policy topics are overseen by six Standing Policy 30
Committees which consist of legislators and government staff from the member 31
states; and 32
33
WHEREAS, the mission of the organization is to serve as a community of 34
the states, committed to connecting, informing, inspiring, and empowering 35
public servants in all thr ee branches of state government to put the best 36 HR1015
2 2/3/2023 9:44:37 AM MAG030
ideas and solutions into practice; and 1
2
WHEREAS, in pursuit of this mission, CSG South has convened the 3
Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) for the past seventy -six (76) years, 4
beginning with its inception in Hot Springs, Arkansas and moving into decades 5
of fellowship and cooperation between the fifteen (15) southern states; and 6
7
WHEREAS, the seventy-seventh Southern Legislative Conference will 8
convene in Charleston, South Carolina, from July 8 to 12, 2023 ; and 9
10
WHEREAS, more than one thousand five hundred (1,500) southern 11
legislators, government staff, and their families will gather to discuss 12
policy matters specifically affecting southern states to bridge commonalities 13
and discuss solutions for current p olicy trends, challenges, and 14
opportunities; and 15
16
WHEREAS, CSG South offers a welcome to all southern legislative, 17
executive, and judicial officials to attend, 18
19
NOW THEREFORE, 20
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY -FOURTH GENERAL 21
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 22
23
THAT the House of Representatives recognizes the seventy-seventh 24
Southern Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments Southern 25
Office. 26
27
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT upon adoption, a copy of this resolutio n be 28
provided to Council of State Governments Southern Office Director Lindsay 29
Gray by the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives. 30
31
32
33
34
35
36