An effort to ensure that Bayou Country Superfest keeps returning to LSU’s Tiger Stadium cleared a state Senate committee Monday. Senate Bill 475 by state Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb, D-Baton Rouge, would create a state and local sales tax rebate for … Continue reading
Future school bus drivers would be ineligible for tenure under a bill that won easy approval Monday morning in the Louisiana House Education Committee. The measure, House Bill 293, next faces action on the House floor. It passed the committee … Continue reading
ISSUES TO WATCH MONDAY HB436 Requires instruction on the Founding Principles of the U.S. to be integrated into the high school American history course in House Education committee. SB350 Continues indefinitely the levy of a local tax of 1.5 percent … Continue reading
The Louisiana Senate unanimously passed Thursday morning a measure extending military members eligibility to maintain their TOPS scholarships. Under current law, high school graduates who join the military have one-year to enter college on a TOPS scholarship after completing their … Continue reading
House convenes at 9:00 a.m. Senate convenes at 9:00 a.m. HOUSE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Judiciary. At adjournment in Committee Room 1. Agenda includes: HB408 Creates the Sheriffs’ Executive Management Institute. SB64 Provides for issuance of certain retail permits. SB65 Creates … Continue reading
A plan that would permit a new breakaway school district in southeast Baton Rouge won lopsided approval Wednesday in the Louisiana Senate. The two-bill package passed 30-8 and 29-7 after about one hour of debate. The plan next faces action … Continue reading
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama nominated Baton Rouge attorney Shelly D. Dick on Wednesday afternoon to the federal judgeship left vacant by the death of Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Tyson. Tyson died in July after a long fight … Continue reading
A bill that would require the teaching of sex education in public schools narrowly failed Wednesday afternoon in a Louisiana House committee. The vote was 8-8, one short of the majority needed for any proposal to move to the full … Continue reading
A state Senate committee defied the Jindal administration Wednesday and advanced legislation that would organize an exchange to help facilitate the purchase and sale of health care insurance under the new federal law. The Senate Insurance Committee “just voted to … Continue reading
Parents of Southern University Laboratory School students could be on the hook to pay about $2,400 per year to send their children to the school after the Louisiana House Education committee approved a $500 tuition increase Wednesday. The school currently … Continue reading