The Louisiana Legislature is deciding whether to reduce, redefine or abolish the state’s higher education oversight board as multiple state universities struggle through budget crises and the federal government probes minority student completion goals. #lalege #lagov
Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would prohibit colleges and universities from punishing professors for their research, teaching controversial subjects or free speech outside of the classroom. #lalege #lagov
On it ✍️
A Louisiana legislative committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would require students to repay their state-funded TOPS scholarship awards if they lose eligibility for the program with poor grades or by leaving school. #lalege #lagov
Opponents of a bill to shield how Louisiana’s public universities spend their revenue on college athletes warn it’s a slippery slope, as it would be the first time the state hides how public money is spent from public view. #lalege #lagov
Louisiana colleges have adhered to the standards of a regional accreditation group going back more than a century, but a conservative movement is progressing to allow the schools to seek another option. #lalege #lagov
As state lawmakers call for increased transparency into university finances in Louisiana, a legislative committee has advanced a bill that would hide how much public money is being paid to college athletes. #lalege #lagov
Sen. Gerald Boudreaux (D) has filed a bill that creates financial reporting requirements for universities and requires corrective plans for those in distress. It also moves LUMCON to the LSU system legis.la.gov/legis/BillIn... #lalege #lagov
Interestingly, this same lawmaker has a bill that would prohibit universities from punishing faculty for their speech, research or teaching or controversial subjects legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo…
Rep. Chuck Owen (R) has filed a far-reaching higher ed bill that, among other things, requires an annual review of required courses and allows university presidents to select the head of the faculty senate legis.la.gov/legis/BillIn... #lalege #lagov
Rep. Lauren Ventrella (R) has introduced a bill that would prohibit employers from punishing a medical professional for declining to engage in any healthcare service that goes against their religious, moral or ethical beliefs legis.la.gov/legis/BillIn... #lalege #lagov
Rep. Raymond Crews (R) has filed a bill that would prohibit private and public employers from punishing an employee for misgendering an employee or “improper use” of their pronouns legis.la.gov/legis/BillIn...
The Louisiana Senate has voted 36-2 to pass a bill that would exempt certain university records, including leadership job applications and donor names, from the public records law. Bill goes next to a house committee legis.la.gov/legis/BillIn... #lalege #lagov
AD Verge Ausberry: “LSU is a charity. Like (Skip Bertman) used to say, LSU as an athletic department is a charity. So that’s the way we’re looking at this.”
Today, shortly after Will Wade's introductory press conference, #LSU AD Verge Ausberry went over the structural changes he's made to the athletic department, and how those adjustments will help pay the bills.
"This is a new day and age."
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In Louisiana, sex crime survivors and their family members may get the power to sue the government or individuals who post information about them on the internet including their address, birth date, place of worship, marital records or employment location. #lalege
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Bills that seek to either eliminate or lower personal income tax rates in Louisiana all voluntarily deferred in House Ways & Means. Legislative leadership has discouraged moving these proposals since the state is still learning the impacts of the recent tax rewrite. #lalege
The House has agreed to create a new public records exemption to shield GPS data on wildlife or aquatic life collected or held by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries that would reveal the location of individual animals. Vote was 98-0. HB858 heads to the Senate. #lalege
Rise of ‘manfluencers’ leads Louisiana to propose update to its in-person recording rules #lalege #lagov
State lawmakers have advanced a bill to make it easier for Louisiana colleges and universities to punish individuals and organizations that engage in hazing that ends with death or serious harm. #lalege #lagov
Louisiana legislators have advanced a bill to combat college hazing by increasing penalties, training and reporting requirements for schools and campus organizations. #lalege #lagov
Rep. Chuck Owen (R) has filed legislation that would make it illegal for universities to retaliate against faculty for their speech, research or teaching of controversial subjects #lalege #lagov legis.la.gov/legis/BillIn...
CARBON CONUNDRUM: Republican officials in Louisiana, a state long friendly to the fossil fuel and petrochemical sectors, are scattered along the spectrum with their views on CO2 capture and sequestration. @eplunk.bsky.social reports
Can we please put a line item for a new senate press desk chair in HB1
The Louisiana Senate is currently debating a bill that would criminalize protests at churches. The bill is a response to the so-called Don Lemon protest (where Lemon was arrested) in Minneapolis.
Background from @piperhutch.bsky.social #lalege
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A Louisiana state representative has withdrawn his bill to allow guns on college campuses, killing the proposal for the year. #lalege #lagov
Breaking news: An air traffic controller pleaded with the driver of an emergency vehicle to stop in the seconds before the deadly crash on the runway of LaGuardia Airport and said afterward that he had been focused on an unrelated crisis and “messed up.”
The naming will only be done if the federal government makes a “substantial” investment in the bridge. Substantial was not defined.