With less than a week left in the legislative session and while the budget is completed, there’s still a few things left to debate before 6 PM on June 10th. Lawmakers need to pass the taxation portion of legislation that allows the use and sale of the raw form of medical marijuana, but it’s been amended to include an infrastructure-related tax proposal.
A Bill to make kindergarten mandatory at age 5 passed in the house on a 59-31 vote. New Orleans Representative Jason Hughes says it’s time to make an investment in the future of children in the state.
The amended bill now returns to the Senate. If passed would go into effect fall of 2022.
A Baton Rouge nurse began a door-to-door campaign earlier this year to educate and vaccinate people for COVID. Carla Brown lost her husband to COVID after she exposed him to the virus, a man who survived a gunshot wound to the head as a child and cancer twice, only to succumb to the virus.
Brown has vaccinated just shy of a thousand residents. Her goal is to reach two thousand by the 4th of July.
Governor Edwards announces that vaccinated individuals can now gain free entry into all Louisiana State Parks and historic sites through July 31st. Edwards says it doesn’t matter when you got your shot, if you have proof, you get in free.