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The Louisiana Board of Ethics voted Friday to oppose House Bill 1034, a piece of legislation that would exempt several professional classes from an important though somewhat vague area of the Code of Ethics.
A Senate bill for a 10-year phase-out of the Louisiana personal income tax has been working its way through the Legislature this session and now is poised to pass the House of Representatives. House passage would send the measure at a critical stage back to the Senate, which would decide whether to concur with the […]
The 2011 regular legislative session ended harmoniously with a $25 billion budget compromise despite the pressures of a steep revenue shortfall, sharp disagreements between the governor and lawmakers, sore feeling left over from the redistricting session and looming elections this fall.
The Louisiana House of Representatives made two important accomplishments last week when it partially cut funding for a privatized Medicaid program proposed by the state health agency.
The Louisiana Legislature adjourned Wednesday from a special session on redistricting Lawmakers completed four of the seven political maps they set out to redraw when they called themselves into session March 20. We wait to see if the federal Department of Justice will approve the new plans or if court challenges will alter the outcomes. […]
The Louisiana Legislature is redrawing the state’s political representation maps this year to adjust to population changes recorded in the 2010 Census. A task mandated every 10 years, the job of redistricting is more challenging than usual this time because the state is losing a seat in Congress, Hurricane Katrina has shifted parts of the […]
In the 2008 and 2009 legislative sessions, the list of records relating to the work of the governor that could be kept off-limits to the public was expanded. This session, proposals are being considered that would reverse some of those changes and create a more open and transparent governor’s office. Both the House and Senate […]