A senate RESOLUTION

commemorating the seventy-eighth southern legislative conference of the council of state governments southern office and welcoming all legislative, executive, and judicial officials of our great state to attend the southern legislative conference in july 2024.

Whereas, the Council of State Governments Southern office (CSG South) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit member organization that serves the southern legislatures of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; and

Whereas, with regionally-based state leadership and perspective and national-level resources, CSG South provides southern legislators and government staff with a wide variety of programs and services that facilitate regional cooperation and encourage the exchange of information; and

Whereas, in pursuit of this mission, CSG South has convened the Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) for the past seventy-seven years, hosting decades of fellowship and cooperation between the Southern states. The seventy-eighth Southern Legislative Conference will convene in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia at The Greenbrier from July 21-25, 2024; and

Whereas, more than one thousand five hundred Southern legislators, government staff, and their families will gather to discuss policy matters specifically affecting Southern states to bridge commonalities and discuss solutions for current policy trends, challenges, and opportunities.  Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, hereby commend The Council of State Governments Southern office, commemorate the seventy-eighth Southern Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments Southern Office, and welcome all legislative, executive, and judicial officials of our great State to attend the Southern Legislative Conference in July 2024.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to The Council of State Governments representatives.

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