The House is expected to take up legislation today that would ban drivers from touching their cell phones while behind the wheel. Bill author, Breaux Bridge Representative Mike Huval says the proposal is a life saver, and a cost saver…
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Huval says Georgia recently passed a cellphone ban and the Peach State has seen a four-percent reduction in all fatalities, which adds up to 50 lives saved.

Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says the state welcomed 51-million visitors to the state in 2018 a nine percent increase over 2017. Nungesser says the continued growth in tourists has led to 26-hundred new tourism-related jobs…
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The Senate Finance committee will begin dissecting today a proposed budget that’s been approved by the House. Lawmakers seem to be in agreement on a teacher pay raise. The House’s spending proposal would give teachers a 12-hundred dollars raise, 600-dollars more for school support workers, but they have shown no indication of approving an additional 39-million dollars in public school funding, which Governor Edwards is pushing for…
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House Republicans have resisted Edwards proposal for additional funding for public schools, because they say Louisiana already spends the national average when it comes to per pupil funding.