The House Health and Welfare committee heard hours of testimony on a statewide smoking ban that would include casino’s and bars. The bill by Opelousas Democrat Dustin Miller was voluntarily yanked, so he can work on the language of the measure. If passed it would virtually ban smoking in just about every public building in the state. Wade Duty represents casinos.
Reagan Carter is a member of the Louisiana Public Health coalition who supports the bill.
Miller says he will bring the bill with the revised language back in two weeks.
The fiscal cliff is smaller, as the state’s Revenue Estimating Conference has lowered the budget shortfall from 994-million to 648-million-dollars…
Winn Parish Sheriff’s deputies were met with gun fire trying to serve a civil warrant in the Chee Chee Dam area. 71-year-old Betty Lemoine was killed by deputies who had just driven up to their home. State Police Trooper Scott Moreau says her son 50 year old Kendall Lemoine was the target of a civil arrest warrant…