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Louisiana Higher Education to Invest in Stock, Amendment 8 (2002)
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The Louisiana Higher Education to Invest in Stock, Amendment 8 was on the ballot in Louisiana on November 5, 2002, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. It proposed that public institutions of higher education should be permitted to invest some part of their funds in stocks.[1][2][3]
Election results
| Louisiana Amendment 8 (2002) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 508645 | 50.94% | ||
| Yes | 489,884 | 49.06% | ||
Election results via: Louisiana Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| To authorize the institutions of higher education or their management boards to invest in stocks up to fifty percent of certain funds received from gifts and grants, endowments, and other funds.[4][5] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results," November 5, 2002
- ↑ Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, "Voting on Louisiana Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1978-2015," accessed November 3, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2002 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2002 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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