Overview of 2022 Session The Louisiana Legislature began its 2022 session with an historic opportunity to make long-overdue investments in people and communities. A combination of surplus dollars, federal pandemic relief money and a surge in state tax collections left legislators with unprecedented amounts of revenue to distribute among Louisiana’s many needs. Lawmakers used the
House Committee Administration of Criminal Justice 2021 Legislative Session SB 118 Testimony Thank You Chairman James and Committee Members. My name is Tom Costanza Executive Director with the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops. Thank you Senator Morris for bringing this bill so that we could have an honest dialogue about such an important issue. The
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The Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops has updated its website to offer a variety of resources to the faithful as they address intentional advance care planning. To access an advance care planning toolkit, simply click on the scrolling button marked "The Final Journey" toward the bottom of our homepage. Once there, you will find extensive
The past two weeks proved to be quite busy for the conference as many issues it has an interest in were presented. Although HB 359 narrowly cleared the House Education committee, it failed to garner enough votes to move beyond the House chamber. Our conference has been following this measure closely and stood opposed to
Rep. Lenar Whitney successfully presented HB 701 to the House Health and Welfare committee this past Wednesday morning. This measure would ensure that no one could perform or attempt to perform an abortion based on the gender of the unborn child. Louisiana Right to Life Federation has been involved in the crafting and promotion of
Reflecting on the third week of the '15 Louisiana Legislative Session and planning for the week ahead... The Louisiana Legislature heard two issues during this past week that the LCCB has consistently spoken to: MEDICAID EXPANSION and SEX EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Each of these issues yielded unwelcome outcomes as Medicaid Expansion failed in both House and
