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The Louisiana Legislature completed its work on the state’s multibillion-dollar budget days ahead of the deadline, in a regular session temporarily disrupted by another divisive redistricting debate and ending with uncertainty for public school teachers.
Louisiana will use a new congressional map for the fall elections, drawn by lawmakers after the U.S. Supreme Court declared the previous district configuration unconstitutional in a contentious, years-long redistricting battle.
The election for Louisiana’s six U.S. House seats, postponed amid the chaotic fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared the congressional map unconstitutional, has been rescheduled for the fall. Voters will cast ballots for the races in the Nov. 3 election.
Budget debates are getting tougher for Louisiana lawmakers after the state’s income forecasting panel downgraded its projections for the next 13 months. The forecast reductions aren’t deep enough to threaten damaging cuts across services, but they will give lawmakers less ability to expand existing or create new programs. Senators will need to shrink the budget […]
The Louisiana House supported Gov. Jeff Landry’s multibillion-dollar roadmap for spending next year, making only modest changes and keeping intact the governor’s push to allocate more money for economic development, prisons and an education voucher program.
With his latest budget proposal, Gov. Jeff Landry is restarting what appears likely to be an annual debate of whether and how to expand Louisiana’s education voucher program. Again, he’s hitting resistance.
Louisiana’s governor and lawmakers are getting a little something extra in their holiday stockings this year, courtesy of the state income forecasting panel.