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Senate kills bill protecting university faculty members for their academic speech (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE (LSU Manship News) – A bill to protect university faculty academic speech died in a Senate committee Tuesday. The House bill authored by Rep. Chuck Owen, R-Rosepine, in its original form would have prohibited professors from receiving punishments for things said in the classroom or research topics. However, it was heavily watered down before advancing from the House floor. The bill was kept in committee by Senate Judiciary A, on a 4-1 vote. As created, the bill provided protections a
Crawfish industry facing labor shortage due to federal immigration caps, state agriculture head says (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE — The crawfish industry is facing a labor shortage due to federal immigration caps as the state enters the start of the harvesting season, Commissioner of Agriculture Mike Strain said in a House committee meeting on Tuesday. Most of the seasonal workers employed by the state’s crawfish peeling and packing facilities are authorized to work temporarily in the U.S., and this year, many of them are being denied visas to work, leaving the packing facilities without a workforce and causing
With gator population booming, recreational hunting season on the horizon (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE – Bills creating an annual recreational alligator season from October through December have begun advancing through the state Legislature this week. Following the passage of Senate Bill 244 on Monday to establish a recreational alligator hunting season, Rep. Neil Riser, R-Columbia, presented a tandem bill creating the licensing and fees associated with the potential hunting season to the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee. The bill passed favorably with amendments, but
House panel rejects bill to place damage caps in most civil lawsuits (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE – A bill that would have placed a cap on general damages in civil lawsuits was blocked 5-4 by a House committee. House Bill 526, authored by Rep. Kellee Hennessy Dickerson, R- Denham Springs, sought to place a $500,000 cap on civil damages, which did not include property damage, lost wages, tangible losses or medical bills. The proposed bill also would not have applied in cases of severe, permanent injury. The bill, which was considered Tuesday, aimed at lowering auto insurance rates
Bill advances to add protections for people whose offenses are triggered by domestic abuse (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE — A substitute bill that would create protections for incarcerated survivors of domestic violence advanced in a Senate Judiciary committee meeting on Tuesday, but faced opposition from advocates arguing the new version would not be as effective as the bill originally proposed. Senate Bill 91, authored by Sen. Beth Mizell, R-Franklinton, would create protections and sentencing options for defendants who are survivors of domestic abuse. The bill was amended into a substitute bill durin
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