RS 17:177 Legislative academic achievement award - Louisiana Statutes

§177.  Legislative Academic Achievement Award

A.  Beginning with the 1989-1990 school year and annually thereafter, each city or parish school board shall submit to the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives a list of high school students who have attained a grade point average of at least a 3.5 on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent grade point in any school system which uses a different grading scale for the work done during that school year in order that such students may receive the Legislative Academic Achievement Award.  

B.  Each award recipient shall be suitably recognized by presentation of a certificate of merit signed by the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives.  Presentation of such certificate may be made by area legislators at an appropriate award ceremony or reception at the recipient's school at an appropriate time.  

Acts 1989, No. 525, §1.