Gov. John Bel Edwards
With three lawmaking sessions of the Legislature behind him, you can expect Gov. John Bel Edwards to start focusing on policies and politics of his own, beginning with the state’s Medicaid expansion.
Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy lambasted the Gov.
Jeremy Alford
With a variety of issues on the agenda for second special session of the Louisiana Legislature, ranging from sales tax exemptions to corporate taxes, Senate President John Alario believes the most endangered part of the governor’s call may involve the personal taxes paid by citizens of the state.
House Ways & Means Committee chairman Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans, during Wednesday’s meeting in which a tax bill key to Gov. John Bel Edwards’ plan to plug a $600 million shortfall in next year’s budget was killed. Credit: Samuel Carter Karlin
Louisiana lawmakers voted to kill a key part of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ revenue-raising package Wednesday, throwing a wrench in his plan to close the state’s $600 million budget deficit.
Gov. John Bel Edwards
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday that he signed the following bills into law:
ACT 378 – SB 140: Provides for the organization of the Department of Environmental Quality
