Regular legislative session scores, 2022

With everything dealt with, and no veto session, the Louisiana Legislature Log presents its 2022 Louisiana Legislature scorecard. Thirteen bills were selected and weighed for computation. These were chosen mainly from the watch list compiled throughout the session. For a bill’s vote to be selected, in one chamber there had to be more than one legislator not voting for the winning or losing side.

Being that passage of bills depends upon the seated membership of a body, not voting is counted as a negative vote. However, if a legislator had a leave of absence granted for that day, his absent votes weren’t counted for bills voted on that day and the score adjusted to take that into account. In the case of constitutional amendments, the governor’s score was adjusted similarly.

Here are the bills with votes for final passage in every case on which the scorecard was computed, with the conservative/reform position and the weighing indicated:

Regular legislative session through Jul. 2, 2022

The final reckoning for bills has come. But as there is a real possibility of a veto session, rather than move immediately to computing the voting scorecards for the year this space will go on hiatus for a couple of weeks until it is known whether to include results of a veto session in assembling the scorecard.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 185 was signed by the governor; HB 202 was signed by the governor; HB 701 was signed by the governor; SB 383 was signed by the governor.

SCORECARD:

Regular legislative session through Jun. 25, 2022

Here come the vetoes of several good bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 54 was vetoed by the governor; HB 364 was signed by the governor; HB 369 was signed by the governor; HB 455 was signed by the governor; HB 618 was signed by the governor; HB 655 was signed by the governor; HB 865 was signed by the governor; HB 953 was vetoed by the governor; HB 969 was vetoed by the governor; HB 1031 was signed by the governor; HB 1059 was vetoed by the governor; HB 1074 was signed by the governor; SB 104 was signed by the governor; SB 141 was vetoed by the governor; SB 143 was signed by the governor; SB 144 was signed by the governor; SB 350 was vetoed by the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 190 was signed by the governor; HB 557 was signed by the governor; HB 1012 was signed by the governor; SB 201 was signed by the governor.

Regular legislative session through Jun. 18, 2022

And, choices are being made by the governor on bills. Not surprisingly, he’s not acting on almost every good bill as most of these express policy with which he disagrees, as this strategy keeps his political options open, while he is more likely to sign promptly bills with which he agrees.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: SB 112 was signed by the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 308 was signed by the governor; HB 363 was signed by the governor; SB 201 was signed by the governor.

Regular legislative session through Jun. 11, 2022

The session has ended, and now it’s up to the governor to make choices on bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 54 conference report was adopted by the House and the Senate and was sent to the governor; HB 166 was concurred in and sent to the Secretary of State; HB 178 was sent to the Secretary of State; HB 185 was sent to the governor; HB 194 was concurred in and sent to the governor; HB 364 was sent to the governor; HB 369 was sent to the governor; HB 544 was vetoed; HB 618 passed the Senate, was concurred in, and sent to the governor; HB 655 was concurred in and sent to the governor; HB 865 was sent to the governor; HB 953 was sent to the governor; HB 969 was sent to the governor; HB 1031 was concurred in and sent to the governor; HB 1059 was concurred in and sent to the governor; HB 1074 was sent to the governor; SB 44 became law without the governor’s signature; SB 141 was concurred in and sent to the governor; SB 143 was sent to the governor; SB 144 was sent to the governor; SB 258 was signed by the governor; SB 350 was sent to the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 190 was sent to the governor; HB 363 was sent to the governor; HB 557 was sent to the governor.