28, 2024 at 11:48 PM GMT+8| By WAFB Staff Gov. Jeff Landry is officially calling for the Louisiana Legislature to hold a special session for tax reform. Louisiana DOC: Inmate preliminarily tests positive for TB at Dixon Correctional Updated: Oct. 25, 2024 at 11:17 PM GMT+8| By ...
At leastnine billshave been pre-filed for the 2024 Regular Legislative Session that could change the way Louisiana deals with marijuana. Louisiana lawmakers have been inching closer to legalizing cannabis for years. As noted, people don't face a very stiff penalty for just having it in specifie...
At leastnine billshave been pre-filed for the 2024 Regular Legislative Session that could change the way Louisiana deals with marijuana. Louisiana lawmakers have been inching closer to legalizing cannabis for years. As noted, people don't face a very stiff penalty for just having it in specifie...
Louisiana lawmakers have advanced bills to flatten the state's income tax rate and repeal the corporate franchise tax in a special legislative session focused on passing Gov.
HCR 27 Provides consent for the adjournment of the 2020 Regular Session of the Legislature for a period longer than three days to minimize the spread of COVID-19. Adopted. HCR 34 Suspends the severance taxes levied on oil, natural gas, distillate and condensate. Pending. HCR 39 Temporarily ...
The GOP also has a two-thirds supermajority in the Legislature, and Republicans hold every statewide elected position, paving the way for lawmakers to push through a conservative agenda during the legislative session that concluded earlier this month. ...
Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican who took office in January, convened a special session of the state legislature to craft the new voting boundaries, and the map with the two majority-Black districts was adopted that month. Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the start of the special session in th...
The recent 2024 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature committed $230.5 million to Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) infrastructure projects including the Port’s new downriver container terminal, the Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) and the St. Bernard Transportation Corridor, which is envi...
Republican state Rep. Heather Scott has proposed prosecuting women who get abortions, but a committee chairman said Friday he would not allow it. “There are still reasonable people in the Legislature who are going to ensure that extreme bills like that are not going to get a hearin...
Shortly after the state legislature convened for a special session to draw new lines, it adopted a map that lawmakers said satisfied the district court's ruling and also achieved certain political objectives. The plan protects certain "pivotal" Republican incumbents, according to GOP state senators...