Legislation that provides businesses with tax breaks has advanced out of the House Ways and Means Committee. These proposals do not have the full support of the Edwards Administration, because it will mean less revenue for state services. Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson…
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Supporters say the legislation is needed to help businesses struggling after the COVID shutdown.

Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields plans to file police reform legislation in response to George Floyd’s death. However, the current special session is limited to specific legislation that was outlined before Floyd’s death. But he has filed a resolution to create a 15-member task force to study police practices.
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As for police reform legislation, Fields encourages police departments to act now before he introduces his bill in a possible special session in the fall or in the 2021 regular session. He wants to see policies that include a “duty to intervene” among officers.

LSU professors are testing wastewater from various areas in East Baton Rouge parish as a way to track COVID-19 cases in the capital city area. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor John Pardue says COVID-19 patients shed the virus in fecal matter and continue to shed the virus for up to five weeks after negative respiratory samples. He says sewer epidemiology is not a new science and is used to track other metrics…
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Environmental engineering faculty from universities in Houston, Oregon, and Michigan are doing similar tests.