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First Extraordinary Session, 2011
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 8
BY SENATOR MARIONNEAUX
SENATE. Urges Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee to recommend, and the
Louisiana Senate to enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the entirety of West Baton
Rouge 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 West Baton Rouge Parish within one Senate district.4
WHEREAS, except for one eight-year period from 1992-2000, the entirety of the5
parish of West Baton Rouge has been included within one Senate district, and represented6
by one Senator, since at least 1880; and 7
WHEREAS, the entirety of West Baton Rouge Parish is included in the Capital Area8
Groundwater Conservation District (R.S. 38:3071); the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District9
(R.S. 38:291(A)); the Louisiana Capital Area Economic Development Alliance Film10
Commission (R.S. 33:9039.81); the Capital Area Human Services District (R.S. 28:901);11
the Mississippi River Road Commission (R.S. 25:1251); the Atchafalaya Trace Commission12
(R.S. 25:1222); the Tri-Parish Juvenile Justice District (R.S. 15:1096); and State Area No.13
5 of the State Soil and Water Conservation Commission (R.S. 3:1204); and14
WHEREAS, the entirety of West Baton Rouge Parish is included in the election15
jurisdiction of several offices, including Supreme Court District 5 (R.S. 13:101(5)); the first16
election section of the first district of the First Circuit Court of Appeal (R.S. 13:312(1)(b));17
and the Eighteenth Judicial District (R.S. 13:477(18)).18 SR NO. 8
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana1
does hereby urge and request that the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee to2
recommend, and the Louisiana Senate to enact, a Senate redistricting plan that includes the3
entirety of West Baton Rouge Parish within one Senate district.4
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 West Baton Rouge
Parish within one Senate district.