Legislation that would allow an increase in the number of hours a minor can work without receiving a break stalled out on the House floor after a heated debate. Matt Doyle has sound from both sides…
A proposal backed by vaccine critics that would require providers to give patients a list of information about vaccines prior to administering them was rejected by a House Health and Welfare Committee on a 9-4 vote.
One day after the Senate rejected legislation to abolish the death penalty, the House Governmental Affairs Committee approved a bill that would allow the state to keep it a secret on where they purchase lethal drugs to carry out an execution.Louisiana has not carried out an execution since 2010 and a major stumbling block is the state’s inability to acquire the drugs needed to perform a lethal injection, because pharmaceutical companies do not want to be associated with it. Covington Representative Mark Wright is in favor of the secrecy bill, because he says the death penalty can be used to deter crime
A House committee advances legislation on a 6-4 vote that would move regulatory responsibilities for medical marijuana out of the Ag Department and into the Department of Health.
The product has faced repeated delays over the years, and grower GB Sciences’ Executive Vice President John Davis is tired of the wait.