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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Starting in 2025, Louisiana residents and businesses will see significant changes as dozens of new state laws take effect. From tightening voting regulations to ...
As we approach Election Day, a closer look at laws passed in Louisiana last year shows that the state may be closer to Project 2025 initiatives than one might think.
A slew of new Louisiana laws, recently passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, went into effect Tuesday. Among the laws are those that ...
Louisiana State Representative Dodie Horton introduced the bill to the Louisiana House of Representatives, describing the Ten Commandments as the basis of all laws. After passing the Committee on Education in a 10–3 vote, [4] the bill was signed into law by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry on June 19, 2024. [5]
House Bill 648, which bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors in Louisiana, was one of several laws that went into effect Jan. 1. House Bill 648 prohibits those under 18 in Louisiana ...
The Louisiana Revised Statutes (R.S.) contain a significant amount of legislation, arranged in titles or codes. [2] Apart from this, the Louisiana Civil Code forms the core of private law, [3] the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (C.C.P.) governs civil procedure, the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure (C.Cr.P.) governs criminal procedure, the Louisiana Code of Evidence governs the law of ...
The law would allow for the prosecution of any person who performed, or aided someone in performing, an abortion. It included penalties up to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $100,000. [13] In the 2000s, Louisiana passed a law banning abortions after 22 weeks based on the belief that fetuses can feel pain at that point in a pregnancy. [14]
The controversial law, in a state ensconced in the Bible Belt, comes during a new era of conservative leadership in Louisiana under Landry, who replaced two-term Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards ...