HLS 15RS-2926 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 118
BY REPRESENTATIVE BROADWATER
COMMENDATIONS: Commends the Louisiana Small Business Development Center at
Southeastern Louisiana University upon receiving the 2015 SBDC Excellence and
Innovation Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration
1 A RESOLUTION
2To commend the Louisiana Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Louisiana
3 University upon its receipt of the 2015 SBDC Excellence and Innovation Award
4 from the United States Small Business Administration.
5 WHEREAS, the Louisiana Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at
6Southeastern Louisiana University received the 2015 SBDC Excellence and Innovation
7Award on May 8, 2015, at the White House from the United States Small Business
8Administration; and
9 WHEREAS, the SBDC at Southeastern Louisiana University provides invaluable
10service and assistance to many businesses and entrepreneurs in the region it serves; and
11 WHEREAS, the staff of Southeastern's SBDC has received state and regional awards
12in recognition of extraordinary efforts in the development of innovative ideas and excellent
13service to clients; and
14 WHEREAS, the United States has approximately two thousand small business
15development centers and the SBDC at Southeastern is one of ten in the state of Louisiana;
16and
17 WHEREAS, the SBDC at Southeastern Louisiana University serves the five-parish
18region of Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington; and
19 WHEREAS, in recent years, the SBDC has assisted over three thousand six hundred
20clients, aided in the development of more than two hundred twenty new businesses and
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1expansions, helped businesses establish two thousand five hundred jobs, and obtained more
2than three hundred twenty-eight million dollars in capital formation; and
3 WHEREAS, in 2010, the SBDC received a state-level Excellence and Innovation
4Award and was recognized two years later as the top center in the five-state region of
5Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas; and
6 WHEREAS, with the help of area economic development agencies and chambers of
7commerce, the SBDC at Southeastern Louisiana University is able to work towards the
8improvement of the economic climate and opportunities for the region; and
9 WHEREAS, it is appropriate to commend the SBDC at Southeastern Louisiana
10University upon its receipt of the 2015 SBDC Excellence and Innovation Award and to
11recognize the extraordinary service that the center provides to businesses, entrepreneurs, and
12the state of Louisiana.
13 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
14Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend the Louisiana Small Business Development
15Center at Southeastern Louisiana University upon its receipt of the 2015 SBDC Excellence
16and Innovation Award from the United States Small Business Administration and does
17hereby recognize and record for posterity its distinguished record of service to businesses,
18entrepreneurs, and the state of Louisiana.
19 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
20to Wayne Ricks and Brandy Boudreaux, business consultants at the Louisiana Small
21Business Development Center at Southeastern; Sandy Summers, assistant director of the
22Louisiana Small Business Development Center at Southeastern; William Joubert, director
23of the Louisiana Small Business Development Center at Southeastern; Dr. John Crain,
24president of Southeastern Louisiana University; and Dr. Sandra Woodley, president of the
25University of Louisiana System.
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HR 118 Original 2015 Regular Session Broadwater
Commends the Louisiana SBDC at Southeastern La. University upon its receipt of the 2015
SBDC Excellence and Innovation Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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