The Louisiana House is set to convene in the next hour and they are scheduled to vote on a controversial bill that would result in homicide charges against a pregnant woman who gets an abortion. The legislation is expected to be amended before its taken out and it’s believed the criminal charges against a pregnant woman will be removed from the bill.

A study from the National Oceanic at Atmospheric Administration says there’s a potential link in the decline of air pollution to the increase in the number of hurricanes. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The state health department is set to add the COVID vaccine as a requirement for students 16 and older to attend school in the fall. A legislative effort to prohibit that rule from going into effect was defeated in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. Numerous people testified that schools should not have the COVID vaccine on the list of required shots. But Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow, who lost her husband to COVID in December of 2020, feels differently…
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A bill that would let Louisiana colleges and boosters of their athletic programs pay student-athletes as part of name, image and likeness deals continues to advance through the Louisiana legislator. Marrero Senator Patrick Connick is the author of the proposal and got the bill through the House Education Committee…
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Connick says the legislation does not allow for pay-for-play payment arrangements which is something the NCAA says it will begin to enforce.