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Regular Session, 2013
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 86
BY REPRESENTATIVE ST. GERMAIN
A RESOLUTION
To designate Tuesday, May 7, 2013, as Louisiana Chemical Industry Day.
WHEREAS, nature endowed Louisiana with gifts that provided the springboard for
major industry which has brought great benefits to the people of the state; and
WHEREAS, these gifts include abundant oil and natural gas, salt dome caverns,
sulfur deposits, fresh water, and access to oceans of the world through the Calcasieu Basin
and Mississippi River; and
WHEREAS, the petrochemical industry that has grown up around these natural
amenities has become one of Louisiana's greatest assets; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana chemical industry acknowledges that it depends upon
Louisiana and its residents for its resources, a well-trained workforce, and a strong business
climate; and
WHEREAS, this industry provides the most direct jobs in Louisiana's manufacturing
sector, employing nearly twenty-seven thousand Louisiana citizens in fifty-three of the
state's sixty-four parishes, and tens of thousands more employees in hundreds of businesses
that support the industry; and
WHEREAS, an additional one hundred forty thousand jobs are generated indirectly
by chemical industry activity in Louisiana, and the Louisiana chemical industry produces
nearly fifty-eight billion dollars in products annually, the third highest total in the nation; and
WHEREAS, Louisiana exports over eight billion dollars in chemical products
annually to other parts of the world; and
WHEREAS, chemical industry wages in Louisiana are forty-seven percent higher
than the average manufacturing wages in Louisiana; and ENROLLEDHR NO. 86
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WHEREAS, the industry contributes more than one billion dollars annually to state
and local coffers through direct tax payments and through household earnings generated by
the Louisiana chemical industry; and
WHEREAS, almost nine billion dollars of total direct employee earnings are
generated by local chemical companies; and
WHEREAS, Louisianians' lives are enhanced and improved every day by chemical
products produced in Louisiana, ranging from fire-resistant foam used in bedding and the
chair on which we sit to the nitrogen in bags that give potato chips a longer shelf life, to golf
clubs, to hard hats, to bulletproof vests, to contact lenses, to pacemakers, and to thousands
more consumer products; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana chemical industry is more than just a group of companies
and is comprised of a collection of people who want the same things their neighbors want:
safe and clean communities with vibrant neighborhoods, good schools, and a strong
economy; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana chemical industry is essential to the state's economic
growth and to its economic development.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby recognize the essential role the chemical industry plays
in Louisiana's economic development and does hereby proclaim Tuesday, May 7, 2013, as
Louisiana Chemical Industry Day.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to the Louisiana Chemical Association.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES