SLS 15RS-2541 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT STUDY REQUEST NO. 2
BY SENATOR BROWN
COMMITTEE STUDIES. Requests joint study of the practicality, feasibility, and
development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River located between West Baton
Rouge and Ascension parishes.
1 A CONCURRENT STUDY REQUEST
2 To request the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works and the
3 House Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works to meet and
4 function as a joint committee to study the practicality, feasibility, and development,
5 as well as to evaluate, analyze, and review all aspects of an additional bridge
6 crossing the Mississippi River located between West Baton Rouge and Ascension
7 parishes.
8 WHEREAS, the development, improvement, expansion, and maintenance of a new
9 bridge crossing the Mississippi River could lead to growth and economic development in
10 Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes, relieve traffic congestion, provide for the ability
11 of business and industry to compete cost effectively on a regional, national, and global scale,
12 provide a high quality of life for parish residents and the people of this state, and provide a
13 compelling alternative to long-term attempts to develop a bypass around Baton Rouge; and
14 WHEREAS, public revenue, including federal funds, has not kept pace with the
15 area's growing transportation system needs and alternative and innovative funding sources,
16 including but not limited to tolls or public-private partnerships to supplement public revenue
17 sources, must be considered to assist in financing a new bridge.
18 THEREFORE, the Legislature of Louisiana requests that the Senate Committee on
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SLS 15RS-2541 ORIGINAL
1 Transportation, Highways, and Public Works and the House Committee on Transportation,
2 Highways, and Public Works to meet and function as a joint committee to study the
3 practicality, feasibility, and development, as well as to evaluate, analyze, and review all
4 aspects, of an additional bridge crossing the Mississippi River located between West Baton
5 Rouge and Ascension parishes.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SCSR 2 Original 2015 Regular Session Brown
Requests the Senate and House committees on transportation, highways, and public works
to jointly study the practicality, feasibility, and development, as well as to evaluate, analyze,
and review all aspects, of an additional bridge crossing the Mississippi River located
between West Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes.
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