The 2024 legislative session began today and Governor Landry laid out his agenda for lawmakers. He wants legislators to tackle the insurance crisis and he’s calling for a constitutional convention.
Landry and Republican lawmakers are pushing to move items out of the state’s constitution and place it into state law. He says the current constitution makes it too difficult for lawmakers to correct the state’s problems.
Insurance reform and education are also hot button issues up for debate. Jeremy Alford of La-politics-dot-com says legislators have to approve a budget for next fiscal year. He says lawmakers will look at reducing state spending with an eye towards 2025 when a temporary sales tax expires.
Cut 11 (12) “…tough decisions”
Alford says Republican lawmakers are also eager to set up a program called education savings accounts.
Lawmakers returned to the Capitol today to begin the 2024 legislative session. And Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced a package of bills that would improve the state’s election integrity. She says the state has some of the most well run elections in the nation but the bills would bring Louisiana closer to being ranked number one.
HB 114 would expand voter canvass to further ensure that Louisiana’s voter rolls are accurate.
The volume of mail-in ballots for the presidential primary is the third highest in Louisiana’s election history. JMC Analytics pollster John Couvillon…
The volume of mail-in voting for this primary is 17% higher than it was on the first day of the 2020 primary which was in July.