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First Extraordinary Session, 2011 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 8
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 West Baton Rouge Parish within one Senate district.
WHEREAS, except for one eight-year period from 1992-2000, the entirety of the
parish of West Baton Rouge has been included within one Senate district, and represented
by one Senator, since at least 1880; and
WHEREAS, the entirety of West Baton Rouge Parish is included in the Capital Area
Groundwater Conservation District (R.S. 38:3071); the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District
(R.S. 38:291(A)); 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 Atchafalaya Trace Commission
(R.S. 25:1222); the Tri-Parish Juvenile Justice District (R.S. 15:1096); and State Area No.
5 of the State Soil and Water Conservation Commission (R.S. 3:1204); and
WHEREAS, the entirety of West Baton Rouge Parish is included in the election
jurisdiction of several offices, including Supreme Court District 5 (R.S. 13:101(5)); the first
election section of the first district of the First Circuit Court of Appeal (R.S. 13:312(1)(b));
and the Eighteenth Judicial District (R.S. 13:477(18)).
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 West Baton Rouge Parish within one Senate district.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE