Louisiana has a new congressional map.  After the Senate gave its final legislative passage of the new congressional map on Friday, the Public Affairs Research Council issued new commentary on the map that Governor Landry quickly signed into law. Research Director Melinda Deslatte says the new map essentially undoes the work of the legislature in 2024.

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The 2026 legislative session comes to an end at six this evening, while this session will be remembered for the last minute congressional map redistricting lawmakers had to do, Barry Erwin, the chief policy officer of Leaders for a Better Louisiana, says it was a productive session, as lawmakers passed several bills aimed at strengthening Louisiana’s workforce.

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It’s the first of June, which also means it is the first day of hurricane season. Kace Kieschnick reports.

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Registration for a new round of fortified roof grants opens today. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says it opens at eight this morning.

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The grants will be for ten-thousand dollars each, and the three-thousand people who end up receiving those grants will be selected at random on June 22nd.

After the Senate gave its final legislative passage of the new congressional map, the Public Affairs Research Council issued new commentary on the map that Governor Landry quickly signed into law. Research Director Melinda Deslatte says the new map essentially undoes the work of the legislature in 2024, when Landry called them into a special session just after taking office to redraw the map to comply with a judge’s order to create a second majority-Black district.

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Deslatte says now that the map has been signed into law, the next stop will very likely once again be the courts.

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The 2026 legislative session comes to an end at six this evening, and lawmakers will be in an all-out game of Beat The Clock to get those last-minute bills onto Governor Landry’s desk. While this year’s session will forever be remembered for the congressional map redistricting that lawmakers suddenly became tasked with in the latter part of the session, Barry Erwin, the chief policy officer of Leaders for a Better Louisiana, says it was actually quite productive. He says lawmakers passed several bills aimed at strengthening Louisiana’s workforce.

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Erwin says most bills seeking to make changes to the TOPS program went nowhere this year, but he says this is likely not the last of the discussion.

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