Archive of Guides to the Constitutional Amendments

• 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.

• Ethics
• Legislature

In a legislative session that should focus on the state’s most pressing problems, Louisiana lawmakers are pursuing a wide-ranging rewrite of the state’s ethics code that would whittle away at the minimal protections enacted to safeguard against conflicts of interest, backroom dealing and corruption.

• 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.