Taking aim at New Orleans, the bill to ban sanctuary cities fails to get the necessary votes to pass the full House. Denham Springs Representative Valarie Hodges says the measure would withhold funds from cities that don’t allow cops to question the status of individuals who commit crimes…:
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Hodges says under the measure, questions of immigration status would only be allowed post-arrest. But New Orleans Representative Gary Carter opposes..:
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The House voted 64-32, which was just six votes shy of the required super majority.

Governor John Bel Edwards is making an announcement this morning at Cleco in Pineville. The economic development news is slated to come down after 10am.

The effort to try to have the courts intervene in the city of New Orleans’ plans to take down a monument of a Confederate Army general comes up today, as a hearing in the suit to prevent the removal of the Beauregard statue takes place. Supporters of preserving the monuments claimed that newly uncovered documents show the city is not the rightful owner of the statue, but that it actually belongs to the City Park Improvement Association.

The governor’s agenda item he said would have reduced taxes for 90 percent of Louisiana households failed in the House Ways and Means Committee. Lawmakers don’t seem to want to raise taxes on business in return as a way to help address the state’s budget gap, according to Council for A better Louisiana President Barry Erwin. The session ends June 8th…:
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The governor began the session pushing several different tax proposals, because one-point-three billion dollars in temporary taxes are set to expire in July of 2018.