A bill to protect IVF clinics so what happened in Alabama doesn’t happen in Louisiana advances to the House. Brooke Thorington explains.
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The Federal Trade Commission says no more noncompete agreements that prevent employees from leaving their jobs for other companies or starting businesses of their own. Colleen Crain has more…
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Governor Jeff Landry’s former campaign manager, Cory Dennis, has been appointed as the new executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Legislation to provide protections for in vitro fertilization clinics in Louisiana advances favorably from House Civil Law and will go before the full House next week. Bill author, Baton Rouge Representative Paula Davis says after a Supreme Court ruling in Alabama caused IVF clinics to close, she wanted to keep that from happening here.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a frozen embryo is considered a child and if the embryo is destroyed its wrongful death. To avoid criminal charges, IVF clinics closed.
Davis says her bill only affects IVF and does not impact the state’s abortion ban.
Because IVF laws in Louisiana were written in 1986, Davis says her legislation also updates previous regulations to the medical practice.
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Davis refers to House Bill 833 as the IVF Modernization Bill.
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Companies will no longer be able to tell employees that they cannot go to work for a competitor as the Federal Trade Commission votes to ban noncompete agreements on Tuesday. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa says on one hand, it’s appropriate for the free market to figure it out but there could be unintended consequences…
Some business groups fear the ruling may leave their proprietary information and intellectual property vulnerable, but the ruling does not ban agreements that would protect that information. Still business groups are expected to take legal action. Rosa says banning noncompete agreements would benefit clients who want to keep working with their choice of providers when they leave a company but there may need to be limits.
The Rule will go into effect 120 days after it’s published in the Federal Register and with a few exceptions for senior executives, even existing non-compete agreements will be thrown out. Rosa says this ruling not only empowers former employees but also customers who have relationships they want to keep…
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Louisiana public school teachers would receive a cut in pay and early childhood education would see a reduction in state funding under the budget proposal approved by House Appropriations. But Baton Rouge Representative Barbara Freiberg does not want to see teachers’ pay go down
The spending plan approved by House appropriations would reduce a two-thousand-dollar stipend that teachers receive on top of their regular salary, down to 13-hundred dollars. New Orleans Representative Jason Hughes says there’s time during the budget process to find money so the stipend is two-thousand dollars…
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House Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland says they had to reduce proposed teacher stipends and cut 24-million from early childhood education to fully fund the K-through-12 public school funding formula BESE submitted to the legislature.
Baton Rouge Representative Denise Marcelle says a 24-million dollar cut to pre-k, means an estimated two-thousand fewer children taking part in pre education …
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A graduate of the U-S Naval Academy and the former campaign manager for Jeff Landry’s gubernatorial campaign is the new executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party. Maryland native Cory Dennis is excited to be appointed to the G-O-P leadership position…
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Dennis’ appointments comes weeks after Derek Babcock was elected as the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party. Republicans are in control of Louisiana as they hold all of the elected statewide positions and enjoy a super majority over the Democrats in the Legislature. Dennis says the goal is to build on their recent successes…
Dennis is a Black Republican but says race didn’t land him in this position…
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The Saints have the 14th overall pick in the first round of Thursday night’s NFL draft. According to Mike Triplett of New Orleans-football…the Saints have traded up 26 straight times in the NFL draft. General Manager Mickey Loomis says every team is looking at their situation and trying to see if there’s a trade partner to move up in the draft or slide back…
The Saints have an obvious need to draft an offensive tackle, but they could also take a wide receiver. Loomis says the belief is that more offensive players will go in the first round than defensive players…
There are rumors that the Saints are looking to trade veteran cornerback Marshon Lattimore. But Loomis says he doesn’t like dealing established starters…