The Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs committee made major changes to a sales tax renewal bill by removing more exemptions, which means businesses will be forced to pay more in sales taxes, while consumers would pay 4.3 percent state sales tax. The proposal would raise 642-million dollars, which covers the projected revenue shortfall, Alexandria Democrat Jay Luneau voted for it and criticized Republicans for proposing to reduce government spending, but not identifying what shouldn’t be funded…
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A House Republican leader doesn’t think the lower chamber will agree to the senate changes.

Governor John Bel Edwards signs into law this afternoon legislation that give some convicted felons there voting rights back. Baton Rouge Representative Patricia Smith’s legislation was rejected in previous sessions, Edwards thanks her for her persistence…
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Governor John Bel Edwards signs into law tougher penalties for those convicted of bestiality. At first there was some pushback on this legislation. Louisiana Director of the Humane Society of the UNited States, Julia Breaux Melancon, says much of the controversy came from misinformation of the bill’s goal…
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The governor is signing legislation by New Iberia Senator Fred Mills that’s aimed at pushing down drug prices by requiring prescription benefit plans (that prescription card in your wallet) inform consumers when they get rebates from drug manufactures. Mills says before, your drug plan could hide those rebates, and pocket money that should have been going back to you, but now…
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