Senate Daily Digest
April 14, 2015
4:00 pm
Senate Chamber
Adjourned
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Senate Resolutions 2nd Reading
SR3
FRED MILLS
SENATE
- Commends Tara MacInnes for her tireless works with Moyamoya disease and recognizes May 6, 2015, as Moyamoya Disease Awareness Day.
SR4
MORRISH
SENATE
- Designates the week of November 9 through 16, 2015, as "School Psychologist Week".
SR5
PETERSON
COMMENDATIONS
- Honors and recognizes the contributions made by McClurie Sampson Sr. to Washington Parish and the state of Louisiana.
SR6
FRED MILLS
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Jacques Laviolette on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout.
SR9
CROWE
SENATE
- Commends the Republic of China, known as Taiwan, for positive economic relations and friendship with the state of Louisiana.
SR10
PEACOCK
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Margaret Martin on her many extraordinary accomplishments.
SR11
MORRELL
POSTSECONDARY ED
- Creates task force to study the postsecondary education disciplinary process for campus rape and sexual assault.
SR12
MORRELL
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- Extends the Pretrial Service Commission deadline until March 1, 2017.
SR13
WALSWORTH
LEGIS POWERS/FUNCTIONS
- Recognizes Wednesday, April 29, 2015, as Eating Disorder Awareness and Prevention Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
SR14
WALSWORTH
COMMENDATIONS
- Congratulates Congressman Steve Scalise on being elected Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives.
SR15
THOMPSON
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends and congratulates the University of Louisiana at Monroe water ski team for its national championship win at the 26th National Collegiate Water Ski Association Conference.
SR16
J.SMITH
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Virgie Sue Evans Prewitt Davis upon the occasion of her one hundredth birthday.
SR17
BROOME
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends the Volunteer Louisiana Commission for its support of national service and volunteerism in Louisiana.
SR18
MORRELL
SENATE
- Designates the month of April 2015 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Senate Concurrent Resolutions 2nd Reading
SCR8
ALARIO
CONDOLENCES
- Expresses sincere condolences upon the passing of Charles Tubre, an advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities and the elderly.
SCR9
ALARIO
CONDOLENCES
- Expresses sincere condolences upon the passing of former Louisiana State Senator Elwyn J. Nicholson of Marrero.
SCR10
CORTEZ
CONGRESS
- Designate May 2015 as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month and memorializes Congress to provide additional funding for research for the treatment and cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
SCR11
CROWE
COMMENDATIONS
- Congratulates Willard and Inez LeBlanc Hunt on the celebration of seventy years of marriage.
SCR12
ERDEY
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Arthur Perkins for his substantial legacy of service to his community, particularly his twenty-six years of service on the Denham Springs City Council.
SCR13
THOMPSON
COMMENDATIONS
- Recognizes the 25th anniversary of the Affordable Housing Program and the program's contributions to the citizens of Louisiana.
SCR14
MORRISH
CHILDREN
- Continues and provides for the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children until 2017.
SCR15
MORRISH
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Milton Vanicor for his passion, devotion, and nearly eighty years of commitment to Cajun music.
SCR16
FRED MILLS
LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES
- Directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to establish a working group to study laws relative to marijuana and make recommendations to protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control costs to the criminal justice system.
SCR17
FRED MILLS
HEALTH/HOSPITALS DEPT
- Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to evaluate and report on the health benefits and costs of adding Krabbe disease to the list of mandatory screenings performed on newborns under certain circumstances.
SCR18
BODI WHITE
HEALTH SERVICES
- Authorizes and directs the Louisiana Emergency Response Network (LERN) to organize and facilitate a working group of healthcare providers who deal with victims of trauma to develop recommendations for a Level III Trauma Center in Northeast Louisiana.
SCR19
FRED MILLS
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS
- Directs the Louisiana Physical Therapy Board to create the Physical Therapy Patient Access Review Committee.
SCR20
MURRAY
ETHICS
- Requests the Louisiana Board of Ethics to issue an advisory opinion regarding whether persons working at a public school even if employed by a private company, or public employees.
SCR21
BROOME
HEALTH CARE
- Requests the Capital Area Human Services District develop a crisis stabilization unit for the Capital Region.
SCR22
BROOME
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends the Volunteer Louisiana Commission for its support of national service and volunteerism in Louisiana.
SCR23
JOHNS
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends the 2015 Division III St. Louis Catholic State Championship Soccer Team.
SCR24
JOHNS
CONDOLENCES
- Expresses condolences upon the death of Deborah Lechtenberg Warshaw.
SCR25
ERDEY
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Mayor James Durbin on his retirement as mayor of Denham Springs.
SCR26
ERDEY
CONDOLENCES
- Expresses sincere and heartfelt condolences upon the death of Louis Charles Bartus.
SCR27
ERDEY
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Dr. Milton Hughes on his retirement from the Livingston Parish School Board and on 44 years of dedicated public service.
SCR28
CROWE
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends NASA on its significant accomplishments, both technical and scientific, and the Michoud Assembly Facility for its contributions to these advances which have positively impacted both the nation and the state of Louisiana.
SCR29
MORRELL
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- Extends the Capital Punishment Fiscal Impact Commission study and reporting deadline until January 1, 2018.
SCR30
MORRELL
COMMENDATIONS
- Designates April 28, 2015, as Purple and Teal Day and recognizes the efforts of the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
SCR31
ERDEY
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends Keith Martin on his retirement from the Livingston Parish School Board.
SCR32
CORTEZ
COMMENDATIONS
- Commends posthumously law enforcement officers from the Acadiana region who died or were slain in the line of duty.