The House Commerce Committee will vote today on a bill that would allow a person to break a lease if multiple criminal activities are reported to police within a tenth of a mile of their rental. The bill is in response to the death of three-year-old, Devin Page Junior, who was hit by a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting. The child’s grandmother Cathy Toliver says her daughter pleaded with the landlord to let her out of her lease the day her grandson was fatally shot…
An ordinance called “Devin’s Law” designed to make rental properties safer by imposing new regulations was passed last year by The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council. Opponents of the legislation say the bill is too excessive for property owners.
House Commerce is scheduled to meet this morning.
LSU researchers have developed A new patent-pending bait that would help fight the state’s issue with wild hogs. LSU animal scientist and researcher Glenn Gentry says sodium nitrite impedes the body’s ability to send oxygen to the organs…:
The bait is made of fish, potatoes, and sodium nitrite; a chief ingredient in bacon. Wild pigs cause an estimated $ 75 million in annual crop losses and crop damage in Louisiana.
A bill that would require public school employees to use the name and pronoun on a student’s birth certificate passed in the House. Bill author Bossier City Republican Representative Raymond Crews said it’s a parent’s rights bill. The legislation, however, allows teachers to choose how they will refer to the student.
The legislation passed on a 61 to 33 vote and advances to the Senate.