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Falconer LeBas Zeringue OFFICIAL JOURNAL Foil Leger Total - 101 OF THE The Speaker announced that there were 101 members present HOUSE OF and a quorum. REPRESENTATIVES Prayer OF THE Prayer was offered by Rep. Crews. STATE OF LOUISIANA Pledge of Allegiance Rep. Jimmy Harris led the House in reciting the Pledge of FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America. Petitions, Memorials, and Communications Forty-fifth Extraordinary Session of the Legislature Under the Adoption of the The following petitions, memorials, and communications were Constitution of 1974 received and read: Message from the Governor House of Representatives The following message from the Governor was received and State Capitol read: Baton Rouge, Louisiana STATE OF LOUISIANA Monday, June 18, 2018 OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Baton Rouge, Louisiana The House of Representatives was called to order at 4:19 P.M., by the Honorable Taylor Barras, Speaker of the House of PROCLAMATION NUMBER 97 JBE 2018 Representatives. By virtue of the authority vested in me by Paragraph B of Section 2 of Article III of the Constitution of Louisiana, I, John Bel Edwards, Morning Hour Governor of the state of Louisiana, HEREBY CALL AND CONVENE THE LEGISLATURE OF LOUISIANA INTO ROLL CALL EXTRAORDINARY SESSION to convene at the State Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during ten calendar days, The roll being called, the following members answered to their beginning at 4:00 o’clock p.m. on the 18th day of June, 2018, and names: ending no later than 6:00 o’clock p.m. on the 27th day of June, 2018. PRESENT The power to legislate at such session shall be limited, under penalty of nullity, to the following specified enumerated objects: Mr. Speaker Franklin Lyons Abraham Gaines Mack ITEM NO. 1: To legislate with regard to the imposition, Amedee Garofalo Magee collection and remittance of sales and use tax Anders Gisclair Marcelle under R.S. 47:302, 321, 321.1 and 331. Armes Glover Marino Bacala Guinn McFarland ITEM NO. 2: To legislate with regard to exemptions and Bagley Hall Miguez exclusions from state sales and use tax. Bagneris Harris, J. Miller, D. Berthelot Harris, L. Miller, G. ITEM NO. 3: To legislate with regard to the effectiveness of Billiot Havard Morris, Jay Section 19.A of the Act that originated as House Bishop Hazel Morris, Jim Bill No. 1 of the 2018 Second Extraordinary Bouie Henry Muscarello Session of the Legislature. Brass Hensgens Norton Brown, C. Hilferty Pearson ITEM NO. 4: To legislate with regard to the effectiveness of Brown, T. Hill Pierre Section 9 of Act No. 79 of the 2018 Regular Carmody Hodges Pope Session of the Legislature. Carpenter Hoffmann Pugh Carter, G. Hollis Pylant ITEM NO. 5: To legislate with regard to the effectiveness of Carter, R. Horton Richard Section 4 of Act No. 69 of the 2018 Regular Carter, S. Howard Schexnayder Session of the Legislature. Chaney Hunter Seabaugh Connick Huval Shadoin ITEM NO. 6: To legislate with regard to Section 1 of the Act Coussan Ivey Simon that originated as House Bill No. 33 of the 2018 Cox Jackson Smith Second Extraordinary Session of the Legislature. Crews James Stagni Cromer Jefferson Stefanski ITEM NO. 7: To legislate with regard to Section 1 of the Act Davis Jenkins Stokes that originated as House Bill No. 34 of the 2018 DeVillier Johnson Talbot Second Extraordinary Session of the Legislature. Duplessis Jones Thibaut Dwight Jordan Thomas Edmonds Landry, N. White Emerson Landry, T. Wright 607 Page 2 HOUSE 1st Day's Proceedings - June 18, 2018 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and STATE OF MISSOURI caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the MISSOURI LEGISLATURE City of Baton Rouge, on this 8th day of June, 2018. 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY s/JOHN BEL EDWARDS SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 40 Governor of Louisiana Relating to an application to Congress for the calling of an Article V convention of states to propose an amendment to the Motion United States Constitution regarding term limits for members of Congress. On motion of Rep. Leger, the Speaker appointed the following special committee to notify the Governor that the House is convened WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United States and prepared to transact business: Reps. Franklin, Howard, Nancy requires a Convention to be called by the Congress of the United Landry, Pope and Richard. States for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution upon application of two-thirds of the Legislatures of the several Motion states; and On motion of Rep. Leger, the Speaker appointed the following WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Missouri favors a special committee to notify the Senate that the House is convened and proposal and ratification of an amendment to said Constitution, prepared to transact business: Reps. LeBas, Pearson, Simon, Gaines, which shall set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be and Horton. elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United States Senate: Reports of Special Committees NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the The special committee appointed to notify the Governor that the Missouri Senate, Ninety-ninth General Assembly, Second Regular House had convened and was prepared to transact business reported Session, the House of Representatives concurring therein, hereby that it had performed that duty. make an application to Congress, as provided by Article V of the Constitution of the United States of America, to call a convention The special committee appointed to notify the Senate that the limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United House had convened and was prepared to transact business reported States of America to set a limit on the number of terms that a person that it had performed that duty. may be elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives and to set a limit on the number of terms that a The Speaker thanked and discharged the committees. person may be elected as a member of the United States Senate; and Committee from the Senate BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application shall be considered as covering the same subject matter as the applications A special committee from the Senate notified the House that the from other states to Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the Senate has convened and is prepared to transact business. number of terms that a person may be elected to the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States and the Senate of the United States; and this application shall be aggregated with The Speaker thanked and dismissed the committee. same for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to call a limited convention on this subject, but shall Louisiana House of Representatives not be aggregated with any other applications on any other subject; May 31, 2018 and Honorable Taylor Barras BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application shall expire Speaker, Louisiana House of Representatives five (5) years after the passage of this resolution; and P. O. Box 44062 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate Baton Rouge, LA 70804 be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the President and Secretary of the Senate of the United States and Dear Speaker Barras: to the Speaker, Clerk, and Judiciary Committee Chairman of the I have been offered a position with the Lieutenant Governor to House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, and head the Office of State Parks. I will accept the position and begin copies to each member of the Missouri Congressional delegation, and my new duties on June 5, 2018. I resign from the Louisiana House the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several of Representatives, District 10, effective 11:59 PM, June 4, 2018. states, requesting their cooperation. It has been an honor to have served the citizens of District 10 Adriane D. Crouse, Secretary of the Senate, and D. Adam and of the State of Louisiana as a member of the House of Crumbliss, Chief Clerk of the House, do hereby certify that the Representatives. I have enjoyed working in the House and I hope aforementioned is a true and correct copy of Senate Concurrent that during my tenure, I was able to make a positive difference for the Resolution No. 40, adopted by the Senate on April 9, 2018, and State of Louisiana. concurred in by the House on May 17, 2018. ADRIANE D. CROUSE Very truly yours, Secretary of the Senate EUGENE REYNOLDS D. ADAM CRUMBLISS Representative, District 10 Chief Clerk of the House 608 Page 3 HOUSE 1st Day's Proceedings - June 18, 2018 Introduction of Resolutions, HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3— BY REPRESENTATIVE ABRAMSON House and House Concurrent A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION The following members introduced the following entitled House To express the intent of the legislature regarding House Bill No. ___ and House Concurrent Resolutions, which were read the first time by of the 2018 Third Extraordinary Session of the Legislature. their titles and placed upon the calendar for their second reading: Read by title. HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1— BY REPRESENTATIVE EDMONDS Suspension of the Rules A RESOLUTION To commend the Dream Hunt Foundation for its efforts in serving On motion of Rep. Jim Morris, the rules were suspended in children in Louisiana. order to refer the resolution to committee at this time. Under the rules, the resolution was referred to the Committee on Read by title.