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2024 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 37
BY REPRESENTATIVE BRASS
A RESOLUTION
To designate Tuesday, March 19, 2024, as "Louisiana Chemical Industry Day".
WHEREAS, nature endowed Louisiana with gifts that provide the springboard for
major industry that has brought great benefits to the people of the state; and
WHEREAS, these gifts include abundant oil and natural gas, salt dome caverns,
sulfur deposits, fresh water, and access to the oceans of the world through the Calcasieu
Basin and the Mississippi River; and
WHEREAS, the petrochemical industry that has grown around these natural
amenities has become one of Louisiana's greatest assets; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana chemical industry acknowledges that it depends on
Louisiana and its residents for its resources, a well-trained workforce, and a strong business
climate; and
WHEREAS, this industry provides the most direct jobs in Louisiana's manufacturing
sector, employing nearly twenty-seven thousand citizens in fifty-three of the state's
sixty-four parishes and tens of thousands more employees in hundreds of businesses that
support the industry; and
WHEREAS, an additional fourteen thousand jobs are generated indirectly by
chemical industry activity in the state; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana chemical industry produces nearly $58 billion dollars in
products annually, the third highest total in the nation; and
WHEREAS, Louisiana exports $8.3 billion in chemical products annually to other
parts of the world; and
WHEREAS, chemical industry wages in Louisiana are forty-seven percent higher
than the average manufacturing wages in the state; and
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WHEREAS, the industry contributes more than $1.6 billion annually to the state and
local coffers through direct tax payments and through household earnings generated by the
Louisiana chemical industry; and
WHEREAS, more than $8.9 billion of total direct employee earnings is generated by
local chemical companies; and
WHEREAS, Louisianians' lives are enhanced and improved every day by chemical
products produced in Louisiana, ranging from fire resistant foam used in beds and chairs;
nitrogen bags that give potato chips a longer shelf life; and golf clubs, hard hats, bullet proof
vests, contact lenses, pacemakers, and thousands of other consumer products; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana chemical industry is more than just a group of companies
and is comprised of a collection of people who want the same things their neighbors want,
including safe and clean communities with vibrant neighborhoods, good schools, and a
strong economy; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana chemical industry is essential to the state's economic
growth and to its economic development; the Louisiana Chemical Association was founded
in 1959 and is comprised of seventy companies operating in the state of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Chemical Association's mission is to promote a positive
climate for the chemical manufacturing industry that ensures long term growth for the
industry and the state; this year marks the 65th anniversary of the Louisiana Chemical
Association.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby recognize the essential role the chemical industry plays
in Louisiana's economic development and the 65th anniversary of the Louisiana Chemical
Association and does hereby designate Tuesday, March 19, 2024, as Louisiana Chemical
Industry Day.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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