SCR 4 — COMMENDATIONS: Commends the celebration of St.Patrick's Day and recognizes the cultural and historic links between Ireland and Louisiana.

SLS 26RS-612 ORIGINAL Regular Session ENROLLED SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO.

4 BYBYSENATORSMIZELL,BASS,EDMONDS,FOIL,HARRIS,PRESSLY,SEABAUGH, SENATORSTINE MIZELLAND COMMENDATIONS.WOMACK AND REPRESENTATIVES EGAN AND MCMAKIN A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TocommemoratethecelebrationofSt.

CommendsPatrick's theDayandrecognizetheculturalandhistoric celebrationlinks ofbetween St.Patrick'sIreland Day and recognizesLouisiana and the culturalestablishment andof historicthe linksAmerican betweenIrish IrelandState andLegislators Louisiana.Caucus.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TocommemoratethecelebrationofSt.Patrick'sDayandrecognizetheculturalandhistoric links between Ireland and Louisiana and the establishment of the American Irish State Legislators Caucus.

and WHEREAS,therehasalwaysbeenastrongculturalconnectionbetweenIrelandand Louisiana, especiallyespeciallyin in New Orleans where the first St.

Patrick's DaycelebrationDay celebration was held in 1806;

and WHEREAS, between 1832 and 1838, an important new shipping channel, the New Basin Canal in New Orleans, was built with a workforce consisting almost entirelyofentirely of Irish Pageimmigrants,whichledto 1thebuildingofseveralcohesiveIrish ofcommunities 2in SLSthecitysuch 26RS-612as ORIGINALthe SCRIrish NO.Channel Historic District and Irish Bayou;

4and immigrants,whichledtoWHEREAS, thebuildingofseveralcohesiveIrishcommunitiesthesongs inof thecitysuchIrelandarethetragicsongs asoflove,joyous songs ofbattle, nostalgicreveriesof the Irishsorrows, Channeland Historicthe Districtglories that aretheEmeraldIsle,andlamentations of life's myriad travails, and Irishthe Bayou;odes of joy and the life eternal;

and WHEREAS, thesongs ofIrelandarethe tragicsongs oflove,joyous songs ofbattle, nostalgicreveriesofthesorrows, and the glories that arethe EmeraldIsle, andlamentations of life's myriad travails, and the odes of joy and the life eternal;

THEREFORE,Page BE1 IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana2 doesSCR herebyNO. commemorate the celebration of St.

4 ENROLLED THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commemorate the celebration of St.

Representative Marcus EvanEvans ofJr. Illinois;

of Illinois;

ThePRESIDENT originalOF instrumentTHE andSENATE theSPEAKER followingOF digest,THE whichHOUSE constitutesOF noREPRESENTATIVES partPage 2 of the2 legislative instrument, were prepared bySenate Legislative Services.

The keyword, summary, and digest do not constitute part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent.

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1:13(B) and 24:177(E)] DIGEST SCR 4 Original 2026 Regular Session Mizell CommendsthecelebrationofSt.Patrick'sDayandrecognizestheculturalandhistoriclinks between Ireland and Louisiana.

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