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A Cleave Within The Piney Woods: Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University And How Racial Integration Divided The Town And Gown, Caitlin Hornback

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Stephen F. Austin State University was once the pride and joy of the city of Nacogdoches, Texas. When the Texas State Legislature began to look for a location for their new state normal school, the people of the East Texas town fought to have it built there and the Stephen F. Austin Teacher’s College opened its doors in September 1923 to a proud community. Through the trials and tribulations of early twentieth century events, the school managed to stay afloat and grow in numbers. Dr. Ralph W. Steen became the president of the college in 1958 and he oversaw a …

Draft Legislation: A Novel Policy System Of Income & Refundable Property Tax Credits For Sustainable Use Of “Keystone” Stillage And Spent Grain Wastes To Stop Pollution And Surge Business Growth, Samuel C. Kessler

Commonwealth Policy Papers

This draft bill originally formatted by the KY Legislative Research Commission is the minimum text necessary to enact the policy described in the CPP whitepaper publication "Support New Business to Solve Old Problems with Kentucky’s Keystone Waste from Bourbon & Brewing". This publication is also known by the subtitle " A novel policy system of income & refundable property tax credits for sustainable use of Kentucky’s “keystone” wastes – stillage and spent grain - designed to stop pollution risk and surge business growth across the Commonwealth".

Any and all legislative bodies are encouraged to use the attached legislation as the …

I Spy With My Little--Gps Tracking Device: Why Georgia Should Look To The United Kingdom's Domestic Violence Laws To Deter Innovative Abuses Of Technology, Tyerus Skala

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Support New Business To Solve Old Problems With Kentucky’S Keystone Waste From Bourbon & Brewing, Samuel C. Kessler

Commonwealth Policy Papers

Provided here is a policy solution from the backside of Kentucky bourbon and brewing to upcycle Kentucky’s “keystone” wastes and grow businesses in the process. Potential effects range from removing the bottleneck on bourbon production and producing GHG-friendly biogas to lowering the price of milk.This full whitepaper brief provides an incentive model for keystone wastes which have a provider and a use. It is equally applicable for policymakers or advocates wishing to place a policy incentive behind waste-to-product upcycling, businesses involved with methane sequestration & renewable biogas energy, and shifting regulatory and penalizing models of pollution into incentive model for …

A Geographically Targeted Approach For A Preceptor Tax Incentive Using Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (Hpsas), Julia Mattingly, Sarah Belcher, Samuel C. Kessler

Commonwealth Policy Papers

Years before the COVID-19 pandemic brought on a health care shortage in Kentucky, its rural areas were already struggling to obtain and attract primary care medical practitioners. Even though the number of medical school graduates in the U.S. has steadily increased throughout the years, there is a general disinterest in rural or small-town practice, and legislators throughout the country have pondered ways to address this issue plaguing communities. Versions of Preceptor Tax Incentive legislation in Kentucky have been proposed in the General Assembly to address care shortages in the state, however, all have been unsuccessful at truly targeting rural areas …

Blue Water Navy, Hannah Melinda Woods

Veterans Studies Undergraduate Capstones

For years, Veterans who served on ships during the Vietnam war have been denied access to Agent Orange Veterans Affairs benefits. These group of veterans are called the Blue Water Navy. This paper explores the background of this issue, legislation coming about this issue, and the against sides of this issue.

Congressional Rules Of Interpretation, Jarrod Shobe

William & Mary Law Review

Many scholars argue that Congress should adopt federal rules of statutory interpretation to guide judicial interpretation. This Article uses a novel dataset to show that Congress has long used enacted rules of interpretation and has increasingly done so in recent decades. However, it has chosen to do so on a statute-by-statute basis in a way that has gone mostly unnoticed by scholars and judges. We developed a dataset by using computer code to search the U.S. Code dating back to 1946 for specific phrases indicating a rule of interpretation, then manually checked and classified each rule. These rules not only …

The Hard Work Is Worth It: Overcoming Unfavorable Determinants To Pass Pro-Immigrant Education Policy In A Conservative State Legislature, Megan Cardwell Godfrey

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Immigrants, English learners (ELs), and culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD)students often lag behind their White, monolingual peers in academic achievement and English language proficiency. While there are policy solutions to improve academic and linguistic opportunities and outcomes for immigrant/EL/CLD students, such as implementing bilingual instructional models and increasing teacher diversity, these pro-immigrant policies can be hard to come by in some legislative contexts due to unfavorable economic, social, or political determinants. This qualitative case study analyzed the multifaceted political work that contributed to the passage of two pro-immigrant education policies in the Arkansas 93rd General Assembly: a bill for bilingual …

Gender Pay Disparity, The Covid-19 Pandemic, And The Need For Reform, Amy H. Soled

Brooklyn Law Review

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and deepened systemic inequities in the United States. One such inequity is gender discrimination in the labor market, evidenced by pay disparity—the difference between women’s and men’s wages. During the pandemic, women left the workforce at double the rate of men. This employment disruption will negatively affect women’s wages upon their return, as well as their lifetime earnings, further widening the pay gap. Pay disparity exploits more than half of the population, decreases gross national product, and stymies economic growth. This article addresses the reasons why existing legislation has failed to close the pay gap. …

Waging Peace: Female Legislators And A State’S Propensity For War, Caitlyn Shrewsbury

Undergraduate Research Conference

Increasing conflict in the international system prompts policymakers and researchers alike to investigate unconventional methods of creating and maintaining peace. For decades, feminist theorists have argued that women exert a pacifying influence at all levels of society; by extension, their engagement in government would temper the aggressive tendencies of states. It stands to reason that the presence of female legislators in a state’s political system decreases its likelihood of conflict.

Policy Solutions To Maximize The Economic Potential Of The Casino Industry Clusters In Tunica County, Mississippi, John Furla

Honors Theses

Tunica County has come a long way over the past 30 years. From being named “America’s Ethiopia” in 1989 to leading the state in many aspects of economic development today, Tunica County has completely transformed their economy all on the back of the casino industry. Grounded in agglomeration theory, this research serves to confirm the quantitative data that claim that the casino clusters in Tunica County serve as the central driver of economic development for the area through the process of spillover. Through six qualitative interviews with officials from Tunica County government and economic development agencies, the collection of descriptive …

Disaggregating Legislative Intent, Jesse M. Cross

Fordham Law Review

In statutory interpretation, theorists have long argued that the U.S. Congress is a “they,” not an “it.” Under this view, Congress is plural and nonhierarchical, and so it is incapable of forming a single, institutional intent. Textualists contend that this vision of Congress means interpreters must move away from concerns about intent altogether, and that they instead should speak in the register of textualism and its associated constitutional values, such as notice and congressional incentivization. However, even if legislators’ intentions never coalesce into an institutional intent, a disaggregated-intent theory of legislation remains possible. Under this theory, statutes are understood as …

S22rs Sgr No. 26 (Divestment), Lyric Mandell, Harris Quadir, Cooper Ferguson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request that Louisiana State University divests its stocks, funds, and endowments from companies and institutions that profit from or engage in human rights violations in US prisons, at the US-Mexico Border, in Occupied Palestine, and environmentally

S22rs Sgr No. 17 (Letterman Jacket), Lyric Mandell, Andrew Hardee

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Louisiana State University athletics to award letterman jackets to members of the Golden Band from Tiger Land.

S22rs Sgr No. 25 (Scr 6), Adam Dohrenwend, Lyric Mandell

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request that Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 of the 2022 Regular Session of the Louisiana State Legislature not be enacted

S22rs Sgr No. 19 (Union Lot), Devin Meche, Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU Parking and Transportation to allow the parking lot behind the Student Union remain a parking lot after 6:00 pm when the Park N Go ends, until construction of the Bus Depot begins

S22rs Sgr No. 16 (Group Billing), Angel Puder, Amelie Chadwick, Karrisa Chen, Matthew Delatte, Adam Dohrenwend, Jahi Palmer-Davis, Gigi Powers, Zadian Rolland, Michael Wilcher

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU Residential Life to Cease Group Billing for Residents Who are Not at Fault of Suspected Miscellaneous Damages

S22rs Sgr No. 15 (Mental Health Professionals), Saachi Chugh

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Student Health Center to recruit a higher number of diverse Mental Health professionals

S22rs Sgr No. 7 (Believing Day), Matthew Delatte, Angel Puder

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request to declare Tuesday, March 8, 2022, as Start by Believing Day

S22rs Sgr No. 1 (Dead Week), Samantha Staggs, Jace Canafax, Hunter Holliday, Lyric Mandell, Miles Mclendon, James Moore, Nicole Nguyen, Vivian Nguyen, Taren Powell-Brown, Hamood Qureshi, Laliah Williams, Lauren Wise

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU to extend Concentrated Study Period, also known as "Dead Week" from five (5) days to seven (7) days to now begin on Monday instead of Wednesday

S22rs Sgr No. 3 (Sarah Temple), Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To thank LSU Sustainability Director, Sarah Temple, for her dedicated service to LSU Campus Sustainability and cooperative with LSU Student Government

S22rs Sgr No. 4 (Asynchronous), Samantha Staggs

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request LSU to require all make Saturday Classes to be asynchronous

S22rs Sgr No. 5 (Lsu Military Museum), Cooper Ferguson, Landon Zeringue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request William A. Brookshire LSU Military Museum removes a placard from display that explicitly honors Confederate cadets until it is amended to strip them of this honor

S22rs Sgr No. 6 (Military Museum), Cooper Ferguson, Landon Zeringue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request William A. Brookshire LSU Military Museum removes a bust of Troy H. Middleton from display until an additional placard noting his military service and segregationist tenure at LSU is displayed with it.

S22rs Sgb No. 2 (Standing Committee), Taylor Perrodin, Trevor Cupit

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Code to require standing committees to be balanced by number.

S22rs Sgr No. 9 (Front Yard Bikes), Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To support the Front Yard Bikes agreement in regard to abandoned bikes and to urge and request LSU Administration to prioritize the completion of the agreement

S22rs Sgb No. 3 (New Business Deadline), Taylor Perrodin

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Code to change the deadline to submit new business preambles

S22rs Sgr No. 13 (Syllabus Database), Samantha Staggs, Jace Canafax, Hunter Holliday, Lyric Mandell, Nicole Nguyen, Hamood Qureshi

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request LSU to remind and encourage faculty members to upload their syllabus to the syllabus database before the start of the semester to allow students better start

S22rs Sgr No. 24 (Carceral Labor), Adam Dohrenwend, Cooper Ferguson, Angel Puder, Harris Quadir, Hamood Qureshi, Colin Raby, Daniela Sestich, Michael Wilcher, Landon Zeringue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request Louisiana State University to issue an official public statement regarding their plans for carceral labor to not return to the A&M Campus

S22rs Sgr No. 23 (Hb 183), Colin Raby, Harris Quadir, Angel Puder

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

in support of Louisiana House Bill No. 183 introduced by the State Legislature, that prohibits "public postsecondary education institutions from withholding certain services due to defaulting on a loan; and to provide for related matters."