Senate

With three minutes left in the 2016 regular session, a life-and-death drama was unfolding on the Senate floor. Sen.

IN THE SENATE
Manship School News Service
The following bills have cleared both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature and now either head to conference committee to work out House or Senate changes or directly to the governor’s desk for his signing into law or veto:

A bill on the Senate floor Wednesday took aim at budget deficits and state funding as a $600 million deficit and an expected second special session to raise taxes looms on the legislative horizon.

The Louisiana Senate Wednesday unanimously approved a measure to require public schools to teach students how to write cursive.

A bill by Sen. Mack White, Jr., R-Baton Rouge, allowing K-12 employers to opt out of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana failed to gain Senate Retirement Committee approval Monday. It appears dead for the session.