SLS 21RS-983 ORIGINAL
2021 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 240
BY SENATOR CORTEZ
JUDGES. Requests the Supreme Court to make recommendations for the redistricting of
election districts of the court.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To urge and request the Supreme Court of Louisiana to submit recommendations for
3 redistricting the election districts of the court based upon the 2020 decennial federal
4 census.
5 WHEREAS, R.S. 13:101.1(E) provides that the "legislature may redistrict the
6 supreme court following the year in which the population of this state is reported to the
7 president of the United States for each decennial federal census"; and
8 WHEREAS, R.S. 13:101 divides the state into seven supreme court districts with one
9 justice elected from each district; and
10 WHEREAS, in the exercise of its authority pursuant to R.S. 13:101.1(E), the Senate
11 seeks recommendations from the court regarding redistricting the election districts of the
12 court based upon the 2020 decennial federal census.
13 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
14 does hereby urge and request the Supreme Court of Louisiana to submit recommendations
15 for redistricting the election districts of the court based upon the 2020 federal decennial
16 census to the Senate no later than sixty days after the P.L. 94-171 data of the 2020 decennial
17 federal census is reported to the state.
18 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
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SLS 21RS-983 ORIGINAL
1 to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SR 240 Original 2021 Regular Session Cortez
Requests the supreme court to submit recommendations for redistricting the election districts
of the court based upon the 2020 federal decennial census to the Senate no later than 60 days
after P.L. 94-171 data of the 2020 decennial federal census is reported to the state.
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