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2018 Third Extraordinary Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 3
BY REPRESENTATIVES SMITH AND CARPENTER
A RESOLUTION
To commend the 2018 International Legislative Drafting Institute participants and to
welcome them to the state capitol.
WHEREAS, the Public Law Center, a joint venture of the Loyola and Tulane law
schools, launched the International Legislative Drafting Institute in 1995 in response to
increasing global demand for training of legislative drafters; and
WHEREAS, the institute is a two-week summer program that responds to the
worldwide demand on legislative drafters for new laws to support the emergence of free
market economies and democratic forms of government and draws together diverse domestic
and international faculty members experienced in the legislative process; and
WHEREAS, more than five hundred fifty graduates from more than one hundred
jurisdictions around the globe have graduated from the institute, and staff members of the
Public Law Center have conducted training events in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the
Caribbean; and
WHEREAS, institute participants travel to Baton Rouge to spend the day at the
Louisiana state capitol, where they get a firsthand look at representative democracy; and
WHEREAS, staff members of the Louisiana Legislature have a long tradition of
assisting with the training of institute participants, both in the classroom and during their site
visit to Baton Rouge; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature of Louisiana has recognized the critical importance of
the International Legislative Drafting Institute and the lessons it imparts, the tremendous
achievement of the individual students in being selected by their home jurisdictions to
participate, and the hard work that the institute requires of its participants, who merit a
special measure of commendation, as evidenced by House Concurrent Resolution No. 214
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of the 2005 Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution No. 218 of the 2008 Regular
Session, House Concurrent Resolution No. 239 of the 2009 Regular Session, House
Concurrent Resolution No. 272 of the 2010 Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution
No. 189 of the 2011 Regular Session, House Resolution No. 217 of the 2013 Regular
Session, House Resolution No. 14 of the 2016 Second Extraordinary Session, and House
Resolution No. 1 of the 2017 Second Extraordinary Session; and
WHEREAS, this year's institute is being held June 11-22 and will welcome the
following participants: Brenda Young, justice director, Chippewas of the Thames First
Nation of Canada; Akua Osei-Somuah, assistant clerk, Parliament of Ghana; Shilpi
Chatterjee and Anita Bhatt Panda, directors, Lok Sabha of India; Ntele James Kipambi,
deputy clerk, Kajiado County Assembly, Stephen Kariuki, deputy director of human
resources, County Assembly of Kiambu, Stephen R.N. Ndicho, speaker, County Assembly
of Kiambu, Johnson Parmuat Osoi, speaker, Kajiado County Assembly, and Josiah Leboo
Saisa, clerk, Kajiado County Assembly, of Kenya; Ine Nnadi, head of department, Imo State
University-Owerri, and Josephine Chigoziri Ojiaka, lecturer, Imo State University-Owerri,
of Nigeria; Wendy Chang, state counsel, Attorney General's Chambers, of Singapore;
Lankika Davarathna, Kalindi De Silva, and Gangana Hevavithana, assistant legal draftsmen,
Legal Draftsman's Department, of Sri Lanka; and John Paul Edoku, senior state attorney,
Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, of Uganda; and
WHEREAS, the 2018 summer program marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of the
International Legislative Drafting Institute.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend the 2018 International Legislative Drafting
Institute on its twenty-fourth anniversary; does hereby commend its participants and the
jurisdictions they represent for their investment of time, effort, and resources in the
improvement of their governments in general and of legislative drafting in particular; and
does hereby welcome them with great pride and honor to the Louisiana state capitol.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to Brenda Young, Akua Osei-Somuah, Shilpi Chatterjee, Anita Bhatt Panda, Ntele James
Kipambi, Stephen Kariuki, Stephen R.N. Ndicho, Johnson Parmuat Osoi, Josiah Leboo
Saisa, Ine Nnadi, Josephine Chigoziri Ojiaka, Wendy Chang, Lankika Davarathna, Kalindi
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De Silva, Gangana Hevavithana, John Paul Edoku, and David Marcello, executive director
of the Public Law Center.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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