With three weeks remaining in the legislative session, how are bills aimed at improving Louisiana’s property insurance environment for consumers coming along? Benjamin Riggs is Executive Director of Real Reform Louisiana; an insurance consumer advocacy group. Riggs says they like House Bill 252…:
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The House is expected to vote on this bill tomorrow.

A vote is expected soon by the Louisiana Senate to raise the spending cap, which allows the state to spend a higher portion of the two-point-two billion dollars in surplus revenue. Senate President Page Cortez has already made the argument for it…
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But House conservatives are concerned about raising the spending cap, because of a possible decline in state revenues in a couple of years.

US Senator John Kennedy took to the floor in DC urging state senators in Baton Rouge to pass legislation to hold back third graders who are unable to read at grade level.
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It’s awaiting a hearing in Senate Education.

A federal judge in New Orleans has ordered former LSU football coach Les Miles and eight current and former LSU Board of Supervisors to testify in the civil lawsuit filed by Sharon Lewis. The former associate A-D says she faced retaliation for attempting to report sexual misconduct by Miles towards a student. Tiger Rag Editor Todd Horne says U-S District Judge Susie Morgan has also pushed the trial date back from May to December….
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