House votes 84-0 for Rep. Chris Turner bill to remove financial disclosure requirements in state ethics code for immediate family members of certain board and commission appointees, disclosure that is aimed at showing potential conflicts of interest. HB250 next to Senate. #lalege

House votes 86-9 for Rep. Mike Bayham bill requiring phone calls supporting or opposing a candidate, official, proposition to disclose when artificial intelligence was used. Violators would face civil fines. Disclosure would be required at start of call. HB639 to Senate. #lalege

House votes 100-0 to create public records exemption for plans, operational documents, security info, other records involving aerospace facilities or activity. HB1071 is among package of bills sought by Gov. Jeff Landry administration to try to lure an aerospace company. #lalege

Louisiana lawmakers weigh having students repay TOPS scholarships if they leave school  • Louisiana Illuminator 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 b...

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

Louisiana lawmakers advance bill to shield how athletic departments spend public money • Louisiana Illuminator 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 ...

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

TOMORROW: Comprehensive SWBNO reform returning significant powers to city from state to be heard in #LaLege House local/muni committee. Mayor @helenamorenola.com will testify in support.

HB573 by Rep. Hilfrety gives city leaders broad authority to reform/direct SWBNO: legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDo...

The "Un-Election" of New Orleans: Breaking the Courts to Seize the Bench • Invest in Louisiana Every Louisianan deserves a court system that is fast, fair, and efficient. Louisiana's system can often fall short of that standard in heartbreaking ways. There's plenty of room for real reform, grou...

A wave of new legislation moving through the Louisiana Legislature is targeting the judges and courts of New Orleans. These bills are masquerading as reform, but are designed to replace the will of New Orleans voters with state control. investlouisiana.org/the-un-elect... #lalege #lagov

House unanimously votes for tax break bills seeking to lure aerospace business by offering the companies sales tax rebates if they create 200 permanent jobs, $1B investment and letting the companies get property tax breaks through ITEP.
HB1088 and HB1179 by Rep. Tony Bacala to Senate. #lalege

The full House is scheduled to debate the full multibillion-dollar package of budget bills on Thursday. #lalege

They also earmarked $50M more in state general fund money for economic development projects, $36.5M for roadwork in the state transportation department and additional dollars for the State Police Crime Lab. #lalege

With extra dollars available this budget year, lawmakers steered $77.5M to pet projects back home; allocated another $36M to corrections for overtime, supplies, medical expenses; provided $16M for computer system upgrades; added $11M for wildfire firefighting equipment. #lalege

They reduced funding for the Louisiana Department of Health because Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland says the agency has consistently been budgeted more money than it spends yearly. And they added more money for K-12 public school tutoring services. #lalege

Lawmakers on Appropriations added money for per-student increase in the public school funding formula, hurricane recovery debt payment to FEMA, payments of legal judgments against the state and list of individual initiatives/programs at public colleges around the state. #lalege

The committee kept the $44M increase the governor proposed for the LA GATOR education savings account program, along with increased spending on the corrections and juvenile justice agencies. Senate leaders have suggested they'll likely remove the LA GATOR increase. #lalege

House Appropriations amended package of budget bills this morning to reshuffle proposed spending for upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1 and spend $292M left unallocated in the current fiscal year. The committee kept most of the governor's proposed spending increases. #lalege

House votes 97-0 for Rep. Tony Bacala bill to permanently raise the daily per diem rate paid to sheriffs for housing state inmates in parish jails from $26.39 to $29.39.
Sheriffs got the increase ($17.3M) this year. HB143 ensures it continues annually.
Bill to Senate. #lalege

Did faulty court data drive the legislative push to cut 11 judges and clerk in Orleans Parish? | The Lens A Lens investigation finds Louisiana legislators used incorrect court data to justify cutting 11 judges and a clerkship in Orleans Parish, where actual caseloads are about 84 percent higher than repor...

#nolasky #lagov #lalege

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No, Rep. Newell. No more "except for Orleans Parish" carveouts. If attorneys can bring their phones into the building, so can the public. It's 2026, people need their phones with them. Not to be met at the door with this bizarre, unevenly-enforced rule. #lalege #nolasky

HB183 which would prohibit courts from banning cell phones from entering courthouse buildings was deferred as more information is gathered. The bill is needed in Orleans Parish. Court Watch NOLA reported on this problem. Let’s get this passed, #lalege. #nolasky www.courtwatchnola.org/wp-content/u...

Why not Louisiana? #lalege is in session. Our Legislature once gave tax breaks based on permanent jobs created. How many jobs do AI data centers destroy? Tax them.

"As a matter of economics, [Governor Landry] is probably right..." that New Orleans has too many judges and too many clerks. Errol Laborde also explains why it takes legislators from outside of New Orleans to do what's right here: our delegation lacks political will to do it. #lalege #nolasky

A Louisiana bill would protect employees who misgender people at work • Louisiana Illuminator A bill advancing in the Louisiana Legislature would prohibit private employers from punishing employees who willingly refer to anybody by the incorrect gender.  House Bill 1137 by Rep. Raymond Crews, R-Bossier City, passed out of the House Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations on a 6-4 vote Thursday along party lines. It protects an employee […]

Louisiana bill would protect employees who misgender people at work #lalege #lagov

House votes 68-32 for Rep. Vincent Cox bill to ban people convicted of a crime of violence or a sex offense from serving as a juror in Louisiana. HB108 heads to the Senate for debate. #lalege

Thousands more in Louisiana might get to sue over online personal info under broader protections law • Louisiana Illuminator Thousands of people in Louisiana could earn the right to sue others over social media and website posts containing their personal information.

Thousands of people could earn the right to sue other individuals and government entities in Louisiana for sharing their personal information online, under two bills under consideration. #lalege

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On a related note, the sponsor of this bill said more than once last week that legislators are already using campaign funds to pay for their clothes/dry cleaning. If that's the case, they are breaking the law. #lalege

Louisiana legislators could use their campaign cash for clothing if bill passes • Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana lawmakers might lift a prohibition on using their campaign and political action committee funding to purchase clothing for themselves.

Louisiana state lawmakers may gain the ability to use their campaign and PAC money to pay for their clothing under a bill they might pass. This would put Louisiana's campaign finance law out of line with federal statutes. #lalege

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#Louisiana #VotingRightsAct proposal stalled in committee #lagov #lalege #LAFirstNews www.louisianafirstnews.com/news/louisia...

College accreditation in Louisiana could soon take a conservative turn • Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana colleges and universities could soon have the ability to seek new accreditors under a bill advancing in the legislature

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

And then the House voted 97-0 for Rep. Tehmi Chassion bill adding law enforcement officers and current/retired administrative law judges to the existing law that allows them to request certain personal information be removed from many online public documents. HB339 to Senate. #lalege

House votes 92-0 for Rep. Tony Bacala's bill to remove records at clerks of court offices AND the ethics board from a law that allows many officials to get certain personal information redacted from online documents. Ethics board amended into the bill on House floor. HB67 to Senate #lalege