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06.13.2025
2025 Session: Loosening Ethics Laws
- Budget & Taxes
- Ethics
- Legislature
Louisiana lawmakers shut down their two-month regular session after finishing work on a budget that includes record levels of spending and takes sizable sums of money out of a state savings account for infrastructure projects.
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05.22.2025
A Brightened Forecast … With Caution
- Budget & Taxes
- Legislature
An uptick in Louisiana’s income projections will give lawmakers more wiggle room to build their budget, as they continue to learn the implications of a sweeping tax rewrite they passed six months ago.
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05.19.2025
Legislators Should Strengthen, Not Undermine Louisiana’s Ethics and Disclosure Laws
- Ethics
- Legislature
In a legislative session that should focus on the state’s most pressing problems, Louisiana lawmakers are pursuing a wide-ranging rewrite of the state’s ethics code that would whittle away at the minimal protections enacted to safeguard against conflicts of interest, backroom dealing and corruption.
