The House Appropriations Committee approves a 30-billion dollar budget for next fiscal year that contains funding for a teacher pay raise that’s more than the governor’s proposed one-thousand dollar pay hike. Metairie Representative Cameron Henry says the state can do better than a one-thousand dollar raise…
Cut 6 (10) “…500 or 600”
Henry’s proposed budget does not include an additional 39-million dollars for school districts, which is funding that the governor wants to see included. New Orleans Representative Walt Leger says local school leaders say the extra money can go towards school supplies and teacher retirement costs…
Cut 7 (11) “…with it.”
The full House is set to vote on the budget Thursday.
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A constitutional amendment that would abolish the death penalty in Louisiana goes down 13-25 in the Senate. Baton Rouge Senator Dan Claitor says the death penalty is not a deterrent.
Cut 10 (10) “…in our country.”
A bill that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat flew through the Senate 31-5 and is headed to the House.
The legislation triggered a dispute, which is rare during abortion legislation proceedings, between New Orleans Senator Karen Carter Peterson and Shreveport Senator John Milkovich. Just minutes earlier Milkovich, the abortion bill’s writer, voted against a constitutional amendment that would outlaw the death penalty. Peterson seemed to be indicating her displeasure with the perceived hypocrisy, and walked Milkovich into this statement…
Cut 15, 8 seconds, kay