Latest Action: 04/29/2008 - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

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Provides relative to residency requirements for purposes of individual income taxation (EG NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 06/03/2008 - HCR11: Signed by the President of the Senate.

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Requests the secretary of the Department of Revenue to take all possible actions to ensure that no state individual income tax burden results from the federal income tax rebates

HB782

HB782 Sponsored by Jim Tucker
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works.

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(Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes the legislature to abolish, for consolidation purposes, a deep-water port, port, harbor, and terminal districts, and an economic development and port district
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Adds a member of the Nonpublic School Commission to the High School Redesign Commission
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

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(Constitutional Amendment) Requires 25% of mineral revenues in excess of $750 million be deposited in the Coastal Restoration and Protection Fund (OR -$193,800,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 04/29/2008 - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

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Provides relative to residency requirements for purposes of individual income taxation (EG NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 04/29/2008 - Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 28, nays 63. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider tabled.

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Relative to public school policies prohibiting the harassment, intimidation, and bullying of a student by another student, further defines such terms as acts motivated by certain specified characteristics
Latest Action: 07/09/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Provides that each member of the Zachary Taylor Parkway Commission shall be appointed by his parish president or by the president of the police jury if there is no parish president
Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 36, nays 51. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider tabled.

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Increases the contract limit on certain contracts advertised and let by Caddo Parish
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Increases the threshold for Board of Tax Appeals' approval of delinquent penalty waivers (OR DECREASE SG RV See Note)
Latest Action: 05/19/2008 - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

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Provides with respect to criminal penalties of negligent homicide (EG NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.

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Deletes provision that certain disruptive students shall be considered delinquents

HB240

HB240 Sponsored by Walker Hines
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

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Prohibits the possession of tobacco products by persons under the age of twenty-one (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: June 30, 2008.

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Re-creates the Department of Health and Hospitals (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

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Provides relative to the board of commissioners of a veterans' memorial district created within Terrebonne Parish (OR LF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

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Provides for notification and public inspection of records of parish prison and jail escapes (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.

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Provides for changes to the enforcement of certain provisions of the International Residential Code (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Provides with respect to crimes involving prostitution (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

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Provides that part of work release wages cover the entire cost of board for the inmate
Latest Action: 06/21/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Provides with respect to the taking of testimony of a protected person
Latest Action: 07/01/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Authorizes the court to admit to bail a person arrested for extradition for commission of certain offenses
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

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Appropriates funds for payment of certain judgments against the Department of Transportation and Development
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

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Appropriates funds for payment of judgment against the Department of Transportation and Development in "Willie G. Erwin, et al v. Ellen P. Dixon, et al"
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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Declares August 29 of each year a state holiday in observance of Hurricane Katrina (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

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Appropriates funds for payment of judgment against the Department of Transportation and Development in "Amelia A. Guthrie and Rafle Guthrie v. Red Palace, Inc., et al"
Latest Action: 07/03/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Increases court reporter fees for transcriptions in the 37th JDC
Latest Action: 06/09/2008 - Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

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Increases the civil jurisdictional limitations of the city courts of Baker, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Zachary (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

HB14

HB14 Sponsored by Rickey Hardy
Latest Action: 05/07/2008 - Involuntarily deferred in committee.

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Provides for conditions on the issuance of certain bonds

HB7

HB7 Sponsored by Rickey Hardy
Latest Action: 04/01/2008 - Read by title, withdrawn from the files of the House.

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Provides for minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years for felons possessing firearms
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.

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Requests the secretary of the Department of Revenue to take all possible actions to ensure that no state individual income tax burden results from the federal income tax rebates

HB41

HB41 Sponsored by Cameron Henry
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, returned to the calendar.

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Returns certain individual income tax rates and brackets to those in effect prior to the "Stelly Plan"
Latest Action: 03/12/2008 - Read by title, returned to the calendar.

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Authorizes individual income tax deductions for elementary and secondary school tuition under certain circumstances and for certain educational expenses at certain elementary and secondary schools (Item #7(1)) (EG DECREASE GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Authorizes income tax deductions for elementary and secondary school tuition and certain educational expenses for home-schooling children (Item #7) (OR -$35,700,000 GF RV See Note)

HB32

HB32 Sponsored by Cameron Henry
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Provides that certain federal income tax reductions shall not reduce the federal income tax deduction (Item #12) (OR NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Provides for an individual income tax deduction for certain expenses of home-schooled students (Item #7(2)) (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note)

HB23

HB23 Sponsored by John LaBruzzo
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Authorizes individual income tax deductions for elementary and secondary school tuition and certain educational expenses for home schooling children (Item #7) (OR -$110,000,000 GF RV See Note)

HB22

HB22 Sponsored by Cameron Henry
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Provides for an individual income tax deduction for elementary and secondary education tuition (Item 7(1)) (OR -$20,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Authorizes individual income tax deductions for elementary and secondary school tuition and certain educational expenses for home schooling children (Item #7) (OR -$38,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Authorizes individual income tax deductions for elementary and secondary school tuition and certain educational expenses for home schooling children (Item #7) (OR -$20,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/24/2008 - Effective date: May 13, 2008.

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Provides that certain federal income tax rebates or credits shall not reduce the federal income tax deduction (Item #12) (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Provides for an individual income tax deduction for elementary and secondary school tuition (Item #7(1)) (OR -$20,000,000 GF RV See Note)

HB17

HB17 Sponsored by John LaBruzzo
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Provides for an individual income tax deduction for elementary and secondary education tuition and for certain educational expenses for home-schooled children (Item #7) (OR -$36,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Provides for an individual income tax deduction for elementary and secondary education tuition (Item #7(1)) (OR -$10,000,000 GF RV See Note)

HB7

HB7 Sponsored by Hunter V. Greene
Latest Action: 03/12/2008 - Read by title, returned to the calendar.

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Authorizes individual income tax deductions for elementary and secondary school tuition, certain educational expenses for home-schooling children, and elementary and secondary school expenses (Item #7(2)) (EG -$23,400,000 GF RV See Note)