COMMENDATIONS: Commends the 2024 Festival Acadiens et Creoles in Lafayette on the occasion of the festival's fiftieth anniversary
This bill is a concurrent resolution that formally commends the 2024 Festival Acadiens et Créoles in Lafayette for celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The measure highlights the festival's role in preserving Cajun and Creole culture through music, crafts, and food, noting its origins in the 1970s following a period of cultural suppression. By recognizing the event's milestone, the resolution acknowledges the festival's success in revitalizing French language traditions and fostering community pride in South Louisiana.
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2024
Committee Review
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Governor
Introduced May 6, 2024
Last action May 13, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 8, 2024
How they voted
37–0
Passed
Total votes 37
May 8, 2024
D
Democratic12
100% Yea
R
Republican25
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
7
Key actions
2
Committee
0
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Read by title and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays. Ordered returned to the House.
upper
May 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, rules suspended, adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
1 primary · 29 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Brach Myers
RRepublican
Co
Beau Beaullieu
RRepublican
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Beth Billings
RRepublican
Co
Blake Miguez
RRepublican
Co
Bob Hensgens
RRepublican
Co
Caleb Kleinpeter
RRepublican
Co
Chance Henry
RRepublican
Co
Dewith Carrier
RRepublican
Co
Dustin Miller
DDemocratic
Co
Ed Price
DDemocratic
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