The Republican-controlled House approved a bill that would prohibit doctors from performing gender transition procedures on minors. Pollock Representative Gabe Firment says several surrounding states have passed similar bans and several European countries also restrict gender-affirming care for minors…
But the American Academy of Pediatrics supports gender-affirming healthcare.
Mandeville Representative Richard Nelson’s bill to hold third graders back if they fail to pass a literacy competency test advances from the full House bill.
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New Orleans Representative Delisha Boyd argued that it isn’t the child who should be punished and held back, it’s the teachers who are failing the students. The bill advances to a Senate committee.
The House Criminal Justice Committee voted against two measures that sought to clarify medical exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. Among the lawmakers who rejected legislation, Haughton Representative Dodie Horton…
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None of the bills aimed at softening the state’s abortion ban have made out of committee this session.
House-approved legislation to allow a pregnant mother of a child to recover half the out-of-pocket, pregnancy-related medical expenses from the biological father was approved by a Senate Committee. Abita Springs Representative Larry Frieman says he’s trying to protect pregnant women.
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After the baby is born, the mother would have two years to recover these expenses. The bill also states the mother can only recuperate monies if the paternity of the child has been proven. Utah also has a similar bill that was passed in 2021. The measure heads to the Senate floor.