Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the division of administration and the Department of Education to study the feasibility of direct state appropriation to retirement systems the constitutionally-required annual payments owed on behalf of teachers and other public school employees.
Requests the U. S. President to issue an emergency declaration to use any and all U.S. resources, including military forces and martial law, to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and to ban the use of certain chemical dispersants in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response operation.
Requests the Senate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs, the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the secretaries of the Department of Revenue and Natural Resources to meet as a special committee to study a reform of the income-reporting laws and the various exclusions, exemptions, credits, deductions, and other economic incentives granted by state law to large, multinational conglomerates which engage in offshore oil and gas exploration and production.
Commends Forrest Dunn, former member of the House of Representatives on the occasion of his retirement as director of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport.