A bill to ban transgender athletes from playing women’s sports will return to the Senate after passing through the House on a 72 to 21 vote yesterday. This is the same legislation responsible for last year’s historic veto session Metairie Representative Laurie Schlegel presented the bill.
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She’s referring to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas who won an NCAA women’s championship. The bill needs Senate approval of a minor amendment and then it heads to the governor’s desk.

Either today or tomorrow, the full Senate will debate the budget bill that contains a 15-hundred dollar pay raise for teachers. But Louisiana Association of Educators President Doctor Tia Mills believes the raise should be two-thousand dollars to help curb a teacher shortage…
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The Southern Regional Average is 55-thousand dollars, while the average teacher pay in Louisiana is 51-thousand.

The Louisiana House approves a bill that would require a parent or guardian to sign a written form and also confirm orally before a vaccine is administered to a child at school. The bill’s author is Houma Representative Beryl Amedee…
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The measure passed on a 65-31 vote and heads to the Senate.

With air conditioners already working overtime due to the 90-plus temperatures, Cleco is telling customers to use L-E-D lightbulbs and regularly replace air conditioner filters in order to help save a few dollars on the energy bill. Cleco spokesperson Fran Phoenix says for more tips go to cleco-dot-com-slash watt matters…
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