HLS 16RS-3195 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 94
BY REPRESENTATIVE PUGH
COMMENDATIONS: Commends the Keep Louisiana Beautiful organization
1 A RESOLUTION
2To commend the Keep Louisiana Beautiful organization and to recognize its efforts to
3 promote personal, corporate, and community responsibility for a clean and beautiful
4 Louisiana.
5 WHEREAS, Keep Louisiana Beautiful was founded in 2000; the organization
6focuses on education, enforcement, awareness, litter removal, and beautification; and
7 WHEREAS, the organization provides the necessary tools and resources to the
8citizens of Louisiana to improve communities throughout the state; and
9 WHEREAS, Keep Louisiana Beautiful was the diamond level recipient of The
10President's Circle Award by Keep America Beautiful; this distinguished award recognizes
11exemplary performance made by certified affiliates of the national nonprofit organization
12in creating clean, green, and beautiful communities; and
13 WHEREAS, Keep Louisiana Beautiful has issued $2.7 million in grants to local
14communities for anti-litter programs and cleanups; in 2015, the organization brought over
15twenty-eight thousand people together through an affiliate volunteer workforce; and
16 WHEREAS, Governor John Bel Edwards declared Thursday, April 21, 2016, as
17Keep Louisiana Beautiful Day in the state of Louisiana; and
18 WHEREAS, it is appropriate to commend Keep Louisiana Beautiful for its focus on
19education, enforcement, awareness, litter removal, and beautification.
20 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
21Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend the Keep Louisiana Beautiful organization
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1and does hereby recognize the organization's extraordinary efforts to promote a clean and
2beautiful Louisiana.
3 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
4to Susan Russell, executive director of Keep Louisiana Beautiful.
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 94 Original 2016 Regular Session Pugh
Commends the Keep La. Beautiful organization.
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