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06.30.2025
2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Budget & Taxes
- Coastal Restoration & Protection
As Louisiana braces for what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts will be another season of “above normal” hurricane activity in the Atlantic, the 2025 season also marks the 20-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive and expensive hurricanes to hit the state.
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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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05.16.2025
A Tighter Budget
- Budget & Taxes
- Education & Workforce
- Legislature
The Louisiana House backed a nearly $43 billion state operating budget that keeps many agencies at a largely standstill level of financing, continues the stipend that public school teachers have received for the last two years and adds money for a new voucher program backed by the governor.
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02.21.2025
New Budget, With Questions
- Budget & Taxes
- Education & Workforce
- Legislature
The release of Gov. Jeff Landry’s budget proposal to lawmakers came with a cloud of uncertainty. A combination of unanswered questions about state and federal financing sources is driving unpredictability for piecing together the spending plans for the 2025-26 fiscal year that begins July 1.
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12.19.2024
Louisiana’s Fiscal Cliff Resolved
- Budget & Taxes
- Legislature
- Louisiana Constitution
Louisiana’s governor and lawmakers will get to sidestep debates over whether to make steep budget cuts next year thanks to the tax changes they adopted last month.
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11.26.2024
Overhauling Louisiana’s Tax Structure
- Budget & Taxes
- Legislature
- Louisiana Constitution
Louisiana lawmakers embraced much of the tax rewrite package sought by Gov. Jeff Landry in the just-ended special session, agreeing to lower and flatten income tax rates in exchange for new sales tax charges.
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11.18.2024
Louisiana’s State Surpluses
- Budget & Taxes
- Legislature
- Louisiana Constitution
Louisiana has enjoyed repeated state surpluses for the last seven years, and the latest calculations estimate lawmakers will see that trend continue another year. A surplus occurs when a state’s revenue collections exceed its spending within a budget year.
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11.04.2024
Savings Account Shuffle
- Budget & Taxes
- Legislature
- Louisiana Constitution
The governor’s ambitious tax reform package includes a merger of two Louisiana trust funds that help promote financial stability for the state, a change that lawmakers should weigh carefully. The proposal that lawmakers will consider in the upcoming special session on taxes involves the Budget Stabilization Fund (commonly known as the state’s “rainy day” fund) […]
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10.24.2024
Elderly Care Services Report
- Budget & Taxes
- Health Care
The number of people who are elderly is growing at a faster pace than the rest of the population across the country and in Louisiana. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that people age 65 and older will outnumber children by 2034, a first in the nation’s history.
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10.21.2024
RESET Louisiana Tax Study Highlights
- Budget & Taxes
- RESET
RESET hired well-known economist and fiscal expert Greg Albrecht to conduct an independent analysis of the tax reform plan recently proposed by Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration for debate during an upcoming special session of the Legislature.
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10.21.2024
RESET State Tax Reform, 2024 Greg Albrecht
- Budget & Taxes
- RESET
The administration has announced that it intends to call the legislature into a special session in early November 2024 to consider a multi-faceted package of changes to the state tax system. In preparation for that session, RESET Louisiana, a collaboration of the Council for A Better Louisiana, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, and […]
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10.03.2024
RESET Louisiana Analyzing Implications of Tax Bills
- Budget & Taxes
- RESET
In response to Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to call lawmakers into a special session to debate tax reform, RESET Louisiana has hired well-known economist and fiscal expert Greg Albrecht to conduct an independent analysis of the proposals and determine how they would impact taxpayers.