Governor John Bel Edwards has signed the legislation that puts the framework in place for legal sports betting in the 55 parishes that approved it last fall. The governor also signed a bill that lays out where the tax revenues from legalized sports gambling will go…
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Port Allen Senator Rick Ward says 25-percent of that money will go towards early childhood education.

The governor also got out his veto pen and with a signature, he prevents a bill that would have prohibited transgender girls and women from participating in female sports. Edwards calls the bill discriminatory, but the bill’s author Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell disagrees…
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The state legislature can attempt to override the veto if they call themselves in for a veto session.

Starting next year, Louisiana patients who are prescribed medical marijuana can purchase the smokeable form at one of the state’s nine licensed medical marijuana pharmacies. It’s another expansion to the state’s medical-marijuana program the Legislature created in 2015. Houma Representative Tanner Magee on what state lawmakers may try to do next year to expand the program even more…
cut 12 (12) “….have more pharmacies”

More than 160-thousand vaccinated residents have registered to get another shot, a shot at a million dollars. Assistant Secretary for the Louisiana Health Department Kim Hood says the lottery to incentivize more people to get vaccinated, ShotAtAMillion.com, went live at noon on Monday.
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Weekly drawings start July 9th, the one-million-dollar grand prize will be announced on August 13th.