After a concealed carry bill was amended to allow for armed teachers in schools and serve as safety officers, a Louisiana teacher’s union has come out in opposition to the legislation. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The Senate could give final legislative approval today to a bill that will ban abortions in Louisiana if Roe versus Wade is overtuned. The legislation does not include exceptions for rape and incest and under the proposal, doctors or others who perform abortions could receive up to a 10-year prison sentence.

Louisiana’s version of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill failed to pass this year, but its author says she will bring it back next year. Last month, House Education Committee members voted in a bipartisan manner to end the bill’s progress. Bill author and Haughton Representative Dodie Horton says fellow Conservatives in the House moved the bill to a Committee of the Whole, meaning ALL members can debate and vote on it. However, she withdrew the bill from further consideration this year…:
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But Horton plans to bring it back next year, because she believes teachers should not discuss their gender identity of sexual orientation during class time.

Governor John Bel Edwards signed into law the budget for next fiscal year that will give teachers a 15-hundred dollar pay raise and provide millions of dollars for major infrastructure projects like new bridges in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge. House Appropriations Chairman Jerome Zeringue…
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