Lawmakers are once again bringing up a bill that would limit itemized deductions on personal income taxes, in another attempt to fill the state’s $600 million dollar shortfall. The measure was narrowly rejected in House Ways and Means last week, and Jeremy Alford with LaPolitics.com says he doesn’t think the committee is interested in approving anymore tax measures:
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He says this bill would raise an estimated $120 million in addition to the $220 million already approved by the lower chamber.

A former deputy with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office was immediately fired from his job after his arrest on charges related to alleged sexual relations with a juvenile while he was on duty. Authorities say 31-year-old Detective William Lanoux was working when he set up a tryst with a girl he met on social media. He claimed to authorities he thought the girl was 18, but she was actually a 14-year-old runaway. Lanoux is charged with first degree rape and malfeasance in office.

Louisiana is now in compliance with a federal identification law, as Governor John Bel Edwards has signed the REAL ID Act into law. Halen Doughty has more:
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Lotte (Low-tay) Chemical and Axiall break ground on a three billion dollar chemical manufacturing complex in Lake Charles. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says this investment will create hundreds of quality jobs…:
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He expects the plants to begin operations in 2019.