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.
Sen. Karen Carter Petersen, D-New Orleans, listens to Gov. John Bel Edwards address the joint session of the Legislature on the opening day of the second special session of the year. The night before she single-handedly killed a bill to allow juveniles who were sentenced to life without parole would have become eligible after serving 30 years in prison. Credit: Samuel Carter Karlin
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:
Rep. Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans, presents his capital outlay budget bill to the House Ways and Means Committee Monday. Credit: Justin DiCharia
More than a quarter of a billion dollars in eliminations and reductions to Louisiana’s capital outlay projects for the fiscal year beginning July 1 were dispatched to the full House on a unanimous vote Monday in the Ways and Means Committee following the introduction of 375 amendments to House Bi
State Rep. Phillip DeVilier, of Eunice. (Submitted Photo)
Feeling that the temporary increases in sales taxes, from Act 25 from the first special session earlier this year, had a few unintended consequences, Reps.
