Today, the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee will discuss the revenue generating bills approved by the House. The tax bills up for debate would reduce tax breaks businesses currently enjoy and scale back the film tax and solar tax credit programs. Jeremy Alford, with la-politics-dot-com, says the Senate will likely look at limiting those two programs further, plus raising the cigarette tax to a higher amount than agreed upon by the House….

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The lower chamber passed 11 bills that would increase revenues by 615-million dollars.

17-year-old Koryn Hawthorne of Abbeville performs tonight in the finals of NBC’s “The Voice”. Her principal at Lighthouse Christian School, Tiffany Spraggins, says the excitement on campus ranges from the youngest in class to the oldest adult…

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The show airs at 7pm.

The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission begins a statewide “Click It or Ticket” campaign today that runs through the end of the month. Executive Director Lt. Col. John LeBlanc says this campaign is designed, in part to raise the compliance rate for back seat passengers. He says since the state expanded its seat belt law to cover back seat passengers in 2009, the compliance rate has doubled to 55-percent…

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He says you should expect to see extra law enforcement patrols throughout the campaign.

May is Foster Care Month and the Department of Children and Family Services is recruiting foster families. DCFS Policy Advisor Karen Hebert says this month, more than 4300 children will be served by Louisiana’s foster care system and just 2,000 certified foster homes are available. She says that’s a huge deficit for their agency…

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To find out more about becoming a foster parent, visit www-dot-dcfs-dot-la-dot-gov-slash-foster.