2016 Legislative Session

Students attending school on TOPS scholarships are receiving letters that they’ll owe 60% of their tuition in the Spring semester. Speaking on his monthly…

It’s been nine months now since Governor John Bel Edwards was inaugurated. At a Business and Industry Leaders luncheon Tuesday in Baton Rouge, he…

How did lawmakers do during the sessions this year? It depends on who you ask. The latest scorecard, LSU Student Government’s “Higher Education Report…

With the House and Senate taking today off, this is a chance to update you on some of what happened in the flurry of activity, changing over from the…

The regular session has ended, and the second special session has begun. And the chairman of House Ways and Means, Neil Abramson, is nobody’s favorite…

On this, the final day of the regular legislative session, the House and Senate each convened just before 9:30 a.m, with a deadline of 6 p.m. to complete…

It’s not unusual for the Legislature to meet on the weekend before the session ends, but it is out of the ordinary when they get the budget bill done a…

Louisiana is one of just nine states that treats 17-year-olds as adults when it comes to any criminal offense. That’s about to change, now, as the full…

“We need this in state government. We know that there is a problem with fraud,” Shreveport Rep. Mike Johnson said Tuesday, urging members of the Senate’s…

On Tuesday, Senator Norby Chabert (R-Houma) asked House Appropriations to consider a study resolution so the state might get BP settlement funds faster.…