Legislators Tuesday began working on “cleaning up” some of the damage done to the state’s tax code during the first special session. Among those items under reconsideration are Girl Scout cookies and garage sales.
Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, answers questions before the House Education Committee Wednesday on her bill to require school children to memorize and recite daily a passage from the Declaration of Independence. Credit: Jack Richards
Louisiana students may have one more thing to recite in their morning homerooms if House Bill 1035, which gets a full hearing before the House of Representatives next week, passes into law.
The House voted 80-14 Friday to reprioritize more than a billion dollars in capital outlay projects after a presentation by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans, showed the state does not have anywhere near the money to handle the projects on its current plate.
The House of Representatives rejected a bill Wednesday which the author says was designed to offer public colleges and universities some flexibility in the face of budget cuts and financial difficulty.
The House of Representatives Monday killed 33-51 a bill that would return Louisiana High School Activities Association athletic playoffs to a single league in which private, parochial and public schools would compete in the same state tournament.
