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In the 1999 regular session, the Louisiana Legislature worked down to the final hour to complete its consideration of some 3,397 bills and 842 resolutions. The Legislature passed out 1,435 of the bills and 712 resolutions. With one week left to veto legislation, the governor has announced five vetoes.
Legislators have been so concerned with how best to spend the tobacco settlement windfall that they have largely ignored the question of how best to save the money.
This week the Louisiana House of Representatives took a long, deep drag on the tobacco settlement money as it approved using $123 million of next year’s windfall to plug holes in the operating budget.
This Louisiana Tax Handbook is a ready-reference on state and local taxes, gaming revenues and major nontax mineral sources. PAR revises this handbook biennially following the fiscal-only session and provides an addenda in the intervening year.
Legislative proposals to renew the four-cent-per-gallon “TIMED” gas tax 20 years beyond its scheduled expiration date would fund $2 billion in road and bridge projects that have never been adequately evaluated and justified.
The teacher pay raise issue has been on the agenda of several legislative committees, as well as the legislative leadership and administration this session. Some legislators are looking for ways to redirect existing dollars to teacher pay.
The collapse of the state’s fiscal situation in the mid-1980s prompted a series of studies and reform efforts involving a wide range of academic, business, civic and governmental representatives and interests. These reform efforts developed a fairly consistent set of recommendations collectively referred to as “fiscal reform.”