The Louisiana Senate has approved a 39-billion dollar budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1st. Very little discussion on the Senate floor as the spending plan passed unanimously. The bill includes a 15-hundred dollar annual pay raise for teachers and 300-million dollars towards a new Mississippi River Bridge.

House approved legislation to limit the release of mugshots in Louisiana advances in Senate Governmental Affairs. Brooke Thorington has more
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The House Criminal Justice Committee approved a Senate-passed bill that would require the state to conduct a risk assessment of juvenile offenders before they are placed into a juvenile detention center. Turkey Creek Senator Heather Cloud says the bill is in response to a big uptick in violence at juvenile facilities…
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High-risk individuals would be segregated from low and medium-risk juvenile offenders.

Congress is trying to do something about the nationwide shortage of baby formula. Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow says the head of the F-D-A will testify in front of a House Appropriations subcommittee today…
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