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
The state House Education committee advanced bills Wednesday that would give the Louisiana Board of Regents increased control over how individual campuses spend state funding. House Bill 396 sponsored by state Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport would mandate that individual campus … Continue reading
Amid concerns about the cost of the measure, a Louisiana legislator shelved a proposal Wednesday that would expand the number of people on home incarceration. State Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville, said House Bill 1039 could save the state millions of … Continue reading
ISSUES TO WATCH WEDNESDAY SB705 would make Louisiana a party to an interstate compact entitled the “Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote” in Senate and Governmental Affairs committee; and HB1095 would do the same … Continue reading