The 2023 legislative session begins today. Jeremy Alford with La-Politics-dot-com says over the next two months lawmakers will discuss pay raises for teachers and legislators, discuss proposals to improve the state’s property insurance market and since it’s an election year, there will be what he likes to call “bumper sticker issues”….
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It’s a fiscal session, so lawmakers are only allowed to file up to five non-fiscal bills. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell has a bill that prohibits anyone under the age of 21 from entering a bar or nightclub. Current state law allows 18, 19 and 20 year-olds to enter…
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Mizell’s bill is in response to the death of 19-year-old LSU student Madison Brooks who was hit by a car following a night of drinking at a Tigerland bar.

A bill set to be heard in the legislative session would make it a crime to walk up unexpectedly on a cop who’s doing their job.
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One person is dead from an officer involved shooting that took place as officers responded to a shooting at the La Bamba Bar Lounge on Johnston Street in Lafayette. Lafayette Police say one person is in stable condition from the initial shooting and State Police say as cops responded, an officer working security detailed fired his weapon, killing an unidentified subject.