Julie O'Donoghue (Louisiana Illuminator)
The Louisiana Illuminator-
The Louisiana Legislature is expected Thursday to finalize its budget plan for fiscal year 2022-23. It includes a $1,500 annual pay raise for K-12 public school teachers, a 3% pay raise for state higher education faculty and wage increases for correctional officers and child welfare workers.
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Lawmakers consider additional resources for controversial pregnancy crisis centers
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Bill comes two years after two people were killed in New Orleans float accidents
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Officials want to roll back changes made for therapeutic ‘Missouri model’ of care
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Senate committee votes in favor of new penalties for distribution
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The proposal from Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration to tighten up rules for nursing home hurricane evacuations would prohibit state records about how well those plans are executed from being released publicly.
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The head of Louisiana’s prison system is pushing state lawmakers for funding to install air conditioning at its facilities statewide to make it easier to retain correctional officers. None of the seven prisons in the system have air conditioning for prisoner dormitories.
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Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, said Thursday that he would only support the governor’s plan to put $500 million toward a new Mississippi River bridge in the Baton Rouge area this year, if the state picks the bridge’s location before the state budget is finalized in June – a timeline transportation officials say is not realistic.
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Louisiana juvenile advocates question whether youth transfer was legal