ENROLLED
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 51
BY REPRESENTATIVE GREGORY MILLER
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To authorize and direct the Louisiana State Law Institute to direct the printer of the
Constitution of Louisiana to stop printing unconstitutionally adopted language in
Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, the Legislature of Louisiana enacted Act No. 1492 of the 1997 Regular
Session of the Legislature of Louisiana which proposed to amend Article I, Section 10 of the
Constitution of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the enrolled bill which was submitted to the voters did not incorporate
an amendment adopted by the House and concurred in by the Senate; and
WHEREAS, at the congressional primary election held in 1998, a majority of the
electors of the state voted in favor of Act No. 1492; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Supreme Court held in Shepherd v. Schedler, 209 So.3d
752 (La. 1/27/16), that Act No. 1492 of the 1997 Regular Session of the Legislature of
Louisiana is null and void because it was not constitutionally adopted; and
WHEREAS, the printer of the Constitution of Louisiana continues to print Article
I, Section 10 of the Constitution of Louisiana as amended by Act. No. 1492 accompanied
by a validity note regarding the holding of the supreme court.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
authorize and direct the Louisiana State Law Institute to direct the printer of the Constitution
of Louisiana to stop printing the unconstitutionally adopted language and to direct the
printing of Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution of Louisiana as follows:
"ยง10. Right to Vote
Section 10. Right to Vote. Every citizen of the state, upon reaching eighteen
years of age, shall have the right to register and vote, except that this right may be
suspended while a person is interdicted and judicially declared mentally incompetent
or is under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony."
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that two copies of this Resolution be transmitted to
the Louisiana State Law Institute and that the Louisiana State Law Institute forward one such
copy to the printer of the Constitution of Louisiana.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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