After receiving feedback in Senate Judiciary C Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow will not move forward with a bill this session to allow judges to sentence a convicted sex offender to surgical castration if the victim is under the age of 13. Baton Rouge Senator Bodi White says he’s seen video from sex crime prosecutors where young children are raped and he can’t wait to vote for the legislation…
Barrow plans to research the bill and refile next year.
A bill to repeal Louisiana’s 2016 “Raise the Age” law passes a Senate committee without objection. The bill means more 17-year-olds could be tried as adults. Attorney General Jeff Landry spoke of the New Orleans carjacking last month, in which a woman was dragged to death by a group of minors…:
The Senate overwhelmingly approves a bill to criminalize the act of prescribing, distributing, or administrating abortion pills without an in-person visit with a doctor. Slidell Senator Sharon Hewitt says out of the state businesses are selling the pills online to women in Louisiana to take without physician oversight…
The bill moves to the House.
After 850 nursing home patients were evacuated to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish during Hurricane Ida, resulting in more than a dozen deaths, House Bill 291 gives LDH the ability to reject questionable evacuation plans. Baton Rouge Representative Rick Edmonds says Health and Welfare members repeatedly asked who approved a plan to evacuate patients to a warehouse where patients’ bedding consisted of mattresses on the floor.
The bill advances to the House.