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First Extraordinary Session, 2011 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 7
BY SENATOR MARIONNEAUX
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee to recommend, and
the Louisiana Senate to enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the entirety
of East Feliciana Parish within one Senate district.
WHEREAS, for the last ten years and for almost one hundred of the last one hundred
thirty years, the entirety of the parish of East Feliciana has been included within one Senate
district, and represented by one Senator; and
WHEREAS, the entirety of East Feliciana Parish is included in the Capital Area
Groundwater Conservation District (R.S. 38:3071); the Louisiana Capital Area Economic
Development Alliance Film Commission (R.S. 33:9039.81); the Capital Area Human
Services District (R.S. 28:901); the Mississippi River Road Commission (R.S. 25:1251); the
Feliciana Juvenile Justice District (R.S. 15:1096); the Republic of West Florida Historic
Region (R.S. 25:701); the Zachary Taylor Parkway District (R.S. 48:1801); and State Area
No. 5 of the State Soil and Water Conservation Commission (R.S. 3:1204); and
WHEREAS, the entirety of East Feliciana Parish is included in the election
jurisdiction of several offices, including Supreme Court District 5 (R.S. 13:101(5)); the third
district of the First Circuit Court of Appeal (R.S. 13:312(1)(b)); and the Twentieth Judicial
District (R.S. 13:477(20)).
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request that the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee to
recommend, and the Louisiana Senate to enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the
entirety of East Feliciana Parish within one Senate district.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE