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First Extraordinary Session, 2011
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 5
BY SENATOR MARIONNEAUX
SENATE. Urges the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee to recommend, and the
Louisiana Senate to enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the entirety of Iberville
Parish within one Senate district.
A RESOLUTION1
To urge and request the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee to recommend, and2
the Louisiana Senate to enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the entirety3
of Iberville Parish within one Senate district.4
WHEREAS, the entirety of the parish of Iberville has been included within one5
Senate district, and represented by one Senator, since at least 1880; and 6
WHEREAS, the entirety of Iberville Parish is included in the Greater Baton Rouge7
Port Commission (R.S. 34:1221); the Louisiana Capital Area Economic Development8
Alliance Film Commission (R.S. 33:9039.81); the Capital Area Human Services District9
(R.S. 28:901); the Mississippi River Road Commission (R.S. 25:1251); the Atchafalaya10
Trace Commission (R.S. 25:1222); the Tri-Parish Juvenile Justice District (R.S. 15:1096);11
and State Area No. 5 of the State Soil and Water Conservation Commission (R.S. 3:1204);12
and13
WHEREAS, the entirety of Iberville Parish is included in the election jurisdiction of14
several offices, including Supreme Court District 5 (R.S. 13:101(5)); the first election15
section of the first district of the First Circuit Court of Appeal (R.S. 13:312(1)(b)); and the16
Eighteenth Judicial District (R.S. 13:477(18)).17
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana18 SR NO. 5
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does hereby urge and request that the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee1
recommend, and the Louisiana Senate enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the2
entirety of Iberville Parish within one Senate district.3
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
Marionneaux SR No.
Urges the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee to recommend, and the Louisiana
Senate to enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the entirety of Iberville Parish
within one Senate district.