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How strictly ethical standards for state and local elected officials in Louisiana will be enforced hinges on the upcoming appointment of members to the Board of Ethics for Elected Officials.
This edition of PARticles contains articles PAR has issued, beginning December 26, 1990, and notations of later developments.
The governor has distinguished HB 1747, his proposal to assure quality in the classroom, as the most important bill of this session. Its purpose is first to raise teachers’ salaries to the southern and then to the national average, evaluate teachers, get rid of unsatisfactory teachers and reward the high achievers.
The adoption of a 1987 constitutional amendment requires the four state-funded and nine statewide retirement systems to attain and maintain actuarially sound funding and mandates the amortization of the systems’ unfunded accrued liabilities within 40 years.
Louisiana’s campaign finance law should be changed to prohibit large contributions and loans and require full disclosure of contributions and expenditures. The recent statewide elections highlighted several areas of Louisiana’s law in need of reform.