House Criminal Justice advances a bill on an 8-1 vote to expand gun rights and allow Louisiana adults 18 and older to carry handguns without permits or training. Oil City Republican Representative Danny McCormick says the Second Amendment gives law-abiding citizens the right to do so.
Among the law enforcement organizations who oppose the bill is the Louisiana Association of Chiefs of Police.
The House approves a bill to hold third graders back if they fail to pass a literacy competency test multiple times. Mandeville Representative Richard Nelson’s measure gives students three opportunities to pass the test…
Cut 14 (11) “…requirements.”
The heads to the Senate.
A House-approved bill to allow a mother to recover 50% of their out-of-pocket expenses for pregnancy-related medical costs from the father advances from a Senate Committee.
New Orleans is the center for the national debate over the access of the widely used abortion drug mifepristone . A federal appeals court in New Orleans will hear arguments today on a federal judge’s decision in Texas to revoke the FDA’s approval of the drug which occurred over two decades ago. The case is expected to go before the U-S Supreme Court.