The House votes unanimously to give K-12 teachers a 1,000 dollar pay raise, support personnel a 500 dollar pay raise, and approves 39 million dollars in new public-school funding. Monroe Representative Katrina Jackson says the state is long overdue for an increase in education spending.
The pay raises plus additional funding will cost the state an extra 140 million dollars a year.
The Senate passes legislation legalizing industrial hemp production and CBD oil, but the upper chamber packed it with new amendments, so the proposal still needs House approval. Franklin Senator Bret Allain says farmers are itching to grow hemp, as the prices for rice, cotton, and soybeans are currently low.
Sports gambling legalization had a tough day in the Senate as an attempt to revive the bill that was killed in House Appropriations by amending it to fantasy sports regulation results in both sports betting and fantasy sports going down in flames. Metairie Senator Danny Martiny attempted the combined effort that did not cross the two thirds vote threshold it needed pass, as it put off legislators like Slidell Senator Sharon Hewitt…
On a 58-29 vote, the House approves a bill that prohibits Louisiana food manufacturers from labeling a food cauliflower rice if it doesn’t contain rice. Monroe Representative Katrina Jackson voted for the bill because she says the labeling is confusing
Cut 10 (10) “…alternative products.”
Opponents don’t buy that argument, and don’t see how consumers could be confused by a product called cauliflower rice.