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A Lafayette representative s bill seeking to make an Allen Toussaint song Louisiana s cultural anthem is one step closer to final passage. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved Rep. Vincent Pierre s (D-Lafayette) bill, House Bill 351, which would make Southern Nights Louisiana s official cultural songs. No word on when the full Senate will take up the measure. The session ends next Thursday. The House revised the bill before sending it to the House. Under the reëngrossed bill, Give Me Louisiana would be removed as an official state song. That would leave You Are My Sunshine, a song closely associated with former Governor Jimmie Davis, as the state s only official song. Under the bill, Louisiana My Home Sweet Home would remain the state s official march, while The Gifts of Earth would still be the state s official environmental song. ....
A bill that would give Louisiana a fifth official state song is on its way to the Senate. House Bill 351, which would make the Allen Toussaint song Southern Nights Louisiana s cultural anthem, received an overwhelming affirmative vote on Thursday. Representatives nearly unanimously approved the bill, with 100 lawmakers voting yea, one voting nay, and four House members absent. Rep. Blake Miguez (R-New Iberia) cast the lone no vote. Lafayette) bill would add Southern Nights to the list of the state s official songs. None of the four existing state songs, including Jimmie Davis s You Are My Sunshine, would lose their state song status. ....
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