The legislative session begins on Monday and a major priority for legislators is to lower auto insurance rates. Jake Minner, the director at Bengal Transportation Services in Ascension Parish, says his company’s insurance rates have soared from six-thousand dollars per truck per year to 23 thousand –
Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says legal reform is needed that would make it harder for people involved in accidents to sue and win big money settlements.
Governor Landry says since Amendment 2 did not pass, it’s back to the drawing board for preserving teacher pay at its current level. Senate President Cameron Henry says he’s hopeful that as the budget makes its way through the legislative process, dollars will emerge to keep teacher pay where it is.
Amendment 2 would have transformed a stipend into a permanent pay increase.
State Representative Larry Bagley has announced his candidacy for Public Service Commission. The republican from DeSoto Parish wants to serve the same district that Foster Campbell represents. Campbell is term limited and will leave office at the end of 2026. Bagley on what he’ll bring to the P-S-C…
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Bagley says he will ramp up his campaign after the 2025 legislative session.
Secretary of State Nancy Landry is supporting a package of bills that she says will improve election integrity. Louisiana recently moved up to number two in an election integrity report. Landry is advocating for the passage of Senate Bill 90 which would prohibit wagering on the outcome of an election, which Landry says is already banned in 30 states…
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Landry also supports a constitutional amendment that would prohibit foreign funding of a political campaign, whether for or against a candidate or a ballot measure.