A newly signed bill will go into effect January 1st, reducing the time a person can receive unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 12 to 20 depending on the state’s unemployment rate. Sean Richardson has more.
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State offices are closed today in observance of Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned from Union soldiers they were free.

Governor Jeff Landry has signed into law legislation that gives judges the ability to sentence certain convicted sex offenders to surgical castration if the victim is the under the age of 13. The bill’s author, Baton Rouge Senator, Regina Barrow hopes the new law sends a loud and clear message to anyone who seeks to sexually abuse kids…
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Families who are on SNAP will receive an additional 120-dollars per child this week to help pay for breakfast and lunch with kids out of school for the summer. Families on Medicaid, or received assistance from FITAP or the Kinship Care Subsidy Program are eligible for additional dollars in a few weeks and Tim Jenkins with DCFS says there’s a phase three of the Sun Bucks program that will include children who attended schools that offered free lunches for all students, but their families did not apply for EBT…
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Go to D-C-F-S’s website to check for eligibility.