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2017 Second Extraordinary Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1
BY REPRESENTATIVES SMITH AND CARPENTER
COMMENDATIONS: Commends the 2017 International Legislative Drafting Institute
participants and welcomes them to the state capitol
1 A RESOLUTION
2To commend the 2017 International Legislative Drafting Institute participants and to
3 welcome them to the state capitol.
4 WHEREAS, the Public Law Center, a joint venture of the Loyola and Tulane law
5schools, launched the International Legislative Drafting Institute in 1995 in response to
6increasing global demand for training of legislative drafters; and
7 WHEREAS, the institute is a two-week summer program that responds to the
8worldwide demand on legislative drafters for new laws to support the emergence of free
9market economies and democratic forms of government and draws together diverse domestic
10and international faculty members experienced in the legislative process; and
11 WHEREAS, more than five hundred fifty graduates from over one hundred
12jurisdictions around the globe have graduated from the institute, and staff members of the
13Public Law Center have conducted training events in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the
14Caribbean; and
15 WHEREAS, institute participants travel to Baton Rouge to spend the day at the
16Louisiana state capitol, where they get a firsthand look at representative democracy; and
17 WHEREAS, staff members of the Louisiana Legislature have a long tradition of
18assisting with the training of institute participants, both in the classroom and during their site
19visit to Baton Rouge; and
20 WHEREAS, the Legislature of Louisiana has recognized the critical importance of
21the International Legislative Drafting Institute and the lessons it imparts, the tremendous
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1achievement of the individual students in being selected by their home jurisdictions to
2participate, and the hard work that the institute requires of its participants, who merit a
3special measure of commendation, as evidenced by House Concurrent Resolution No. 214
4of the 2005 Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution No. 218 of the 2008 Regular
5Session, House Concurrent Resolution No. 239 of the 2009 Regular Session, House
6Concurrent Resolution No. 272 of the 2010 Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution
7No. 189 of the 2011 Regular Session, House Resolution No. 217 of the 2013 Regular
8Session, and House Resolution No. 14 of the 2016 Second Extraordinary Session; and
9 WHEREAS, this year's institute is being held June 5-16 and will welcome the
10following participants: Danya Wallace of The Bahamas; Jose Griffith of Cayman Islands;
11Benjamin Antiedu of Ghana; J.M. Baisakh and Alpana Tripathi of India; Diana Gichumbi,
12Mercy Muthuuri, Jennifer Ndeto, Jacob Ngwele, and Mercy Thanji of Kenya; Elizabeth
13Chua of Singapore; Alexandra Yeung of Sint Maarten; Gishani Abeywickrama, Dhammika
14Dasanayake, Kalani Medagoda, and Vitharanage Sujeewa Thushari of Sri Lanka; and Pius
15Biribonwoha and Solomon Kirunda of Uganda; and
16 WHEREAS, the 2017 summer program marks the 23rd anniversary of the
17International Legislative Drafting Institute.
18 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
19Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend the 2017 International Legislative Drafting
20Institute on its 23rd anniversary; does hereby commend its participants and the jurisdictions
21they represent for their investment of time, effort, and resources in the improvement of their
22governments in general and of legislative drafting in particular; and does hereby welcome
23them with great pride and honor to the Louisiana state capitol.
24 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
25to the following participants: Danya Wallace of The Bahamas; Jose Griffith of Cayman
26Islands; Benjamin Antiedu of Ghana; J.M. Baisakh and Alpana Tripathi of India; Diana
27Gichumbi, Mercy Muthuuri, Jennifer Ndeto, Jacob Ngwele, and Mercy Thanji of Kenya;
28Elizabeth Chua of Singapore; Alexandra Yeung of Sint Maarten; Gishani Abeywickrama,
29Dhammika Dasanayake, Kalani Medagoda, and Vitharanage Sujeewa Thushari of Sri Lanka;
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1and Pius Biribonwoha and Solomon Kirunda of Uganda; and to David Marcello, executive
2director of the Public Law Center.
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 1 Original 2017 Second Extraordinary Session Smith
Commends the 2017 International Legislative Drafting Institute participants and welcomes
them to the state capitol.
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