HLS 18RS-4133 ORIGINAL
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 101
BY REPRESENTATIVE GREGORY MILLER
ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Provides relative to the printing of certain constitutional
provisions regarding disqualification from holding elective office that were
unconstitutionally adopted
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To authorize and direct the Louisiana State Law Institute to direct the printer of the
3 Louisiana Constitution to stop printing unconstitutionally adopted provisions relative
4 to disqualification from seeking or holding an elective office.
5 WHEREAS, the legislature enacted Act No. 1492 of the 1997 Regular Session of the
6Legislature of Louisiana, disqualifying certain convicted felons from seeking or holding an
7elective office for a certain period of time; and
8 WHEREAS, on October 3, 1998, by a majority vote, the electorate approved Act No.
91492 of the 1997 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana, which was not enrolled
10to include all amendments enacted by the legislature; and
11 WHEREAS, in Shepherd v. Schedler, 209 So. 3d 752 (La. 2016), the Louisiana
12Supreme Court held that Act. No. 1492 of the 1997 Regular Session of the Legislature of
13Louisiana "which attempted to amend La. Const. Art. I, §10, is null and void because it was
14not constitutionally adopted"; and
15 WHEREAS, the printer of the Louisiana Constitution continues to print the
16constitutional provisions as adopted by the electorate and continues to print footnotes
17indicating that the affected provisions are null and void.
18 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
19authorize and direct the Louisiana State Law Institute to direct the printer of the Louisiana
20Constitution to stop printing the language added by adoption of Act. No. 1492 of the 1997
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HCR NO. 101
1Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana to Louisiana Constitution Article I, Section
210 and to direct the printer to print Louisiana Constitution Article I, Section 10 as follows:
3 "§10. Right to Vote
4 Section 10. Every citizen of the state, upon reaching eighteen years of age,
5 shall have the right to register and vote, except that this right may be suspended
6 while a person is interdicted and judicially declared mentally incompetent or is under
7 an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony."
8 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby urge
9and request that the printer of the Louisiana Constitution stop printing the footnote regarding
10Shepherd v. Schedler, 209 So. 3d 752 (La. 2016) that appears at Louisiana Constitution
11Article I, Section 10.
12 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that two suitable copies of this Resolution be
13transmitted to the Louisiana State Law Institute and that the Louisiana State Law Institute
14forward one such copy to the printer of the Louisiana Constitution.
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)]
HCR 101 Original 2018 Regular Session Gregory Miller
Authorizes and directs the La. State Law Institute to direct the printer of the La. Constitution
to stop printing the language added by Act. No. 1492 of the 1997 R.S., which disqualified
certain convicted felons from seeking or holding an elective office for a certain period of
time and which the La. Supreme Court held was unconstitutionally enacted.
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