An attempt to legalize sports betting in Louisiana is dead for the session after the House Appropriations Committee voted 15-to-6 against it. The bill got swamped with amendments, video poker, horse breeders, software producers and others wanted a piece of the gaming pie. The bill’s author, Metairie Senator Danny Martiny, questioned whether those additions were in good faith.
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Another bill that died today is a proposal to shield the drug manufacturers who supply the state with drugs to carry out a lethal injection. Several came to a Senate Committee to speak out against the proposal. Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops executive director Rob Tasman…
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The measure died on a three-two vote.

The Senate Finance committee has approved a budget proposal that contains a one-thousand dollar pay raise and 39-million dollars in block grant funding for local shool systems. But the House does not support extra money for local schools, instead they would prefer giving teachers a larger pay raise. Council for a Better Louisiana president Barry Erwin says election year politics is playing a role in the dispute over education funding…
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The dispute needs to be solved by June sixth, the final day of the session.

An 11-year-old Baton Rouge boy has been charged with negligent homicide in the shooting death of his nine-year brother. Police say it was an accidential shooting. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says if conficted, the child could receive a juvenile life sentence, which would keep him in state custody until he turns 18…
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The child’s parents are not facing any charges at this time.