The main item of the governor’s tax reform plan has been tabled for the session, and now the administration is calling on the GOP to offer its own proposal. Chairman of the House Republican Legislative Delegation Lance Harris of Alexandria says there is plenty of session left to address the loss of one-point-three billion dollars in temporary taxes that expire next year…:
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Lawmakers have until Thursday, June 8 to put together and pass a tax reform plan if they want to do so this session.

Couples with minor children will still have to wait a year before a divorce could be finalized as a measure to shorten that time fails on the House Floor. Baton Rouge Representative Rick Edmonds is against divorce, period…:
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The bill broke up on a 52-44 vote.

The defense takes over today in the trial of a Destrehan High School teacher charged with having tryst with a 16-year-old male student and another teacher at a Kenner Apartment. Shelley Dufresne avoided a felony conviction when she pleaded guilty to obscenity in St. Charles Parish for having sex with the minor there, but Jefferson Parish prosecutors are going after carnal knowledge of a juvenile charges.

The state’s online public charter school is now offering high school students the chance to receive a free two year associate’s degree when they graduate. Emelie Gunn has more…:
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