The House Education and Health and Welfare Committees meet today to discuss occupancy caps for spectators at athletic events. Chalmette Republican Ray Garafalo says lawmakers want more answers as to why high school football games have a strict occupancy cap of 25%, while indoor restaurants are capped at 75%.
Cut 13 (13) “…that question yet.”

Also at the state capitol, Alexandria Representative Lance Harris has filed legislation to be discussed in the special session that would result in local governments losing state dollars if they reduce their local police department’s budget by 10-percent or more. Harris says the legislature has a duty to intervene in this local budgeting issue..
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State Treasurer John Schroder announces the Main Street Recovery Program has stopped accepting new applications as the 275-million dollar program designed to help small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic has reached its capacity. Schroder says applications have been pouring in over the last 20 days…
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Schroder says so far six-thousand checks of no more than 15-thousand dollars in grant money have been delivered to small businesses.

University of Louisiana System schools are helping McNeese State students displaced by Hurricane Laura. UL System President Jim Henderson says more than 200 McNeese students have registered for the Cowboy Relief Effort that allows these students to use a variety of resources at other campuses….
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Henderson says for example, Ashlee Sebren from Jackson Parish is using libraries at both U-L-M and Louisiana Tech University.