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Area state representatives, senators voted with their parties in recent veto session
Nine Southwest Louisiana state representatives voted with their parties Tuesday on efforts by the House to overturn 12 ... Read more
Nine Southwest Louisiana state representatives voted with their parties Tuesday on efforts by the House to overturn 12 ... Read more
Lawmakers in Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature have opted to return to the Capitol for a veto session next week ... Read more
Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards blocked a package of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation from becoming law Friday, including the ... Read more
BATON ROUGE — Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed eight bills Wednesday recently passed by the Republican-dominated ... Read more
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Louisiana, law firm Cozen O’ Connor, and ... Read more
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, said Thursday he intends to veto a package of bills passed ... Read more
Southwest Louisiana members of the House split their votes Wednesday on a Senate resolution raising the state’s expenditure ... Read more
A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for ... Read more
An effort to have the House Appropriations Committee hear a Senate resolution that raises the state’s expenditure limit ... Read more
By Claire Sullivan | LSU Manship School New Service The Louisiana Legislature has unanimously approved a $50 billion ... Read more