The Senate Health and Welfare Committee has advanced Houma Republican Mike Fesi’s bill that would ban fluoride in drinking water. Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham says excessive levels of fluoride have been shown to lower IQs in babies. He says it’s an issue of freedom of choice.
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Annette Droddy, who represents the Louisiana Dental Association’s 19-hundred dentists, says when cities remove fluoride from their drinking water, tooth decay goes up.
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The vote was 6-to-3, along party lines.
Thanks to a 35-3 vote by the Senate, a bill cracking down on “left-lane camping” is zooming over to the House. Sean Richardson has more.
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Louisiana lawmakers are advancing a bill to increase teacher salaries. Lafayette Representative Josh Carlson’s bill would require districts to use savings from eliminating three state trust funds to provide $2,000 raises for teachers and $1,000 for support staff. A companion bill from Carencro representative Julie Emerson was designed to simplify the proposal in response to the recent voter defeat of Amendment 2 which was said to be too complex.