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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 126
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEGER
A RESOLUTION
To request the House Executive Committee to direct House Legislative Services staff to
study population range provisions and provisions based on the number of
congressional districts in the state in the Constitution of Louisiana and in the
Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and to report their findings to the House of
Representatives prior to the convening of the 2011 Regular Session of the
Legislature.
WHEREAS, there exist in the Constitution of Louisiana and in the Louisiana Revised
Statutes of 1950 many provisions of law which are narrowly tailored by population margins
based on federal decennial census figures to affect certain classes of municipalities or
parishes; and
WHEREAS, with the release of the 2010 federal census data, drastically changed
population totals around the state could render inapplicable many important provisions of
law originally and specifically enacted for certain classes of local governmental
subdivisions; and
WHEREAS, there exist in the state constitution and the revised statutes many
provisions of law that are based on the number of congressional districts in the state; and
WHEREAS, the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives that are
allocated to the state is likely to change based on the results of the census currently being
conducted, thereby changing the number of congressional districts in the state; and
WHEREAS, the latest federal decennial census figures may have a dramatic and
upending effect on past and future policy decisions of the legislature by altering the
applicability of various provisions of law; and
WHEREAS, these population range provisions and provisions based on the number
of congressional districts in the state should be identified prior to the next legislative session ENROLLEDHR NO. 126
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and amended in that session in order to ensure the constancy of legislative policy
determinations after the latest federal decennial census results become effective.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby request the House Executive Committee to direct
House Legislative Services staff to study population range provisions and provisions based
on the number of congressional districts in the state in the state constitution and in the
revised statutes and to report their findings to the House of Representatives prior to the
convening of the 2011 Regular Session of the Legislature.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES