Louisiana Legislature

The wide-ranging session included the passage of numerous bills with significant environmental implications

Gov. Jeff Landry opened Louisiana’s regular legislative session Monday with a to-do list for lawmakers. Among the items: Make it easier for parents to send their kids to private schools and fix the state’s insurance market.

The allocations include funding for Louisiana National Guard to deploy to the U.S. border in Texas, along with raises, new equipment and dry cleaning allowances for state police.

The legislature completed a two-week special session Thursday that will likely reshape the landscape of criminal punishment in Louisiana for years to come.

Lawmakers in the Louisiana House gave final approval to multiple controversial proposals Wednesday, including a measure that would treat 17-year-olds as adults in the state’s criminal justice system.

The proposals threaten to undo many of the bipartisan criminal justice reforms passed in 2017 under former Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards.

Gov. Jeff Landry weighs in on the session so far, discusses his crime policies and takes questions from listeners.

Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map on Friday afternoon, bringing an end to the legislature’s special session.

A federal judge gave Louisiana lawmakers until the end of January to redraw the state's congressional map.

Democrats and most Republicans, including Gov. Jeff Landry, seem to be on the same page when it comes to drawing a congressional map with two majority-Black districts.