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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

State News

BREAKING: Louisiana lawmakers will try to override Democratic governor’s vetoes

Lawmakers in Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature have opted to return to the Capitol for a veto session next week ... Read more

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Edwards vetoes anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, including gender-affirming care ban

Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards blocked a package of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation from becoming law Friday, including the ... Read more

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Edwards stops 8 bills from GOP-dominated Legislature

BATON ROUGE — Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed eight bills Wednesday recently passed by the Republican-dominated ... Read more

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Civil rights groups seek to lift stay in federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s state legislative maps

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Louisiana, law firm Cozen O’ Connor, and ... Read more

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Edwards says he intends to veto anti-LGBTQ+ bills 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, said Thursday he intends to veto a package of bills passed ... Read more

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La. House votes to raise spending limit

Southwest Louisiana members of the House split their votes Wednesday on a Senate resolution raising the state’s  expenditure ... Read more

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Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youths

A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for ... Read more

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Effort to hear resolution on raising state’s expenditure limit fails

An effort to have the House Appropriations Committee hear a Senate resolution that raises the state’s expenditure limit ... Read more

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Louisiana’s $50 billion coastal plan unanimously approved by Legislature

By Claire Sullivan | LSU Manship School New Service The Louisiana Legislature has unanimously approved a $50 billion ... Read more