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It happens every session: lawmakers, seeing the quarter of a billion dollar price tag on TOPS, look for ways to tweak the college scholarship program....
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The House Appropriations Committee has begun the process of combing through the governor’s budget proposal, and got some rather unpleasant news from...
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The deadline for pre-filing bills for the 2016 legislative session is just 30 days away. But where does the track for a bill actually start? Louisiana...
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“We have told the Governor we give up. We’re ready to go home,” Senator Robert Adley announced, prompting laughter from his fellow lawmakers, as Senate...
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Conference committees are where all the action is now, at the end of the session. But just what is a “conference committee”? “There are bills that, you...
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Legislation legalizing the sale of alcohol at more movie theaters won final passage Friday in the Louisiana legislature, the Times-Picayune reports.Senate…
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The oil and gas industry won a significant victory in the Louisiana Legislature Friday with Senate passage of a bill that seeks to kill a lawsuit filed by…
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State lawmakers have been showing an independent streak this session. Defying Gov. Bobby Jindal on some of his most defining policy positions that he’s...
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Senators saw a pile of unallocated potential money as part of a House bill to extend the tax amnesty program, and they jumped at it. “Let’s do something...
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Louisiana has billions of taxpayer dollars tied up in thousands of contracts—for goods and services, consulting, privatization and more. Lawmakers,...