A second special session for 2016 begins tonight at 6:30 PM and lawmakers will look at changes to income taxes as they try to close a 600-million dollar shortfall for next fiscal year. Halen Doughty has more…
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Legislators are also finishing up their work on the regular session, which must end by 6:00 tonight. A bill making it out of both chambers today would create electronic driver’s licenses. It would allow drivers to open an app on their phone and show their driver’s license to law enforcement.

Governor Edwards has signed the Louisiana Family Caregiver Act into law, which requires hospitals to offer caregivers instruction and demonstration of medical tasks. Andrew Muhl, with AARP Louisiana, says this legislation will save the state money by reducing costly hospital readmissions, as family caregivers will be able to perform the tasks patients need…
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Twenty-two states have similar legislation.

A State Trooper is recovering after his patrol car was struck by an alleged drunk driver. Trooper Melissa Matey says it happened early Sunday morning in St. Charles Parish on the Bonne Carre Spillway…
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Matey says the Trooper was on the scene of a fatal wreck that involved another suspected drunk driver.