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.

Regular legislative session through Jun. 4, 2022

HB 37 was amended into an almost unrecognizable form from its original language, and thus is dropped from the list of good bills. HB 707 was amended into a better form and thus is dropped from the list of bad bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 54 with minor amendment passed Senate committee and with minor amendment passed the Senate; HB 117 passed the Senate and was rejected; HB 166 with minor amendment passed the Senate; HB 178 passed Senate committee and the Senate; HB 185 passed the Senate and was sent to the governor; HB 194 with minor amendment passed Senate committee and with minor amendment passed the Senate; HB 202 passed the Senate and was sent to the governor; HB 269 failed to pass the Senate; HB 364 with minor amendment passed Senate committee, passed the Senate, and was concurred in; HB 369 passed the Senate; HB 412 passed Senate committee; HB 455 was sent to the governor; HB 526 passed Senate committee; HB 544 was sent to the governor; HB 655 with minor amendment passed the Senate; HB 681 passed the Senate; HB 701 passed the Senate and was sent to the governor; HB 865 passed the Senate; HB 953 passed the Senate; HB 969 passed the Senate; HB 1031 with minor amendment passed Senate committee and passed the Senate; HB 1059 with minor amendment passed the Senate; HB 1074 passed Senate committee and passed the Senate; SB 104 was sent to the governor; SB 112 was passed by the House and concurred in; SB 141 passed the House; SB 143 with minor amendment passed the House and was concurred in; SB 144 passed the House; SB 258 was sent to the governor; SB 350 passed the House; SB 383 was concurred in and sent to the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 190 with minor amendment passed the Senate; HB 308 was sent to the governor; HB 557 was concurred in; HB 1012 passed the Senate and was sent to the governor; SB 201 passed the House and was sent to the governor.

Regular legislative session through May 28, 2022

HB 649 gained new life by becoming amended into a benign form. Thus, it was removed from the list of bad bills. And, SB 354 was amended to make it almost unrecognizable, so it has been removed from the list of good bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 29 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 33 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 37 passed Senate committee; HB 43 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 117 passed Senate committee; HB 166 passed Senate committee; HB 178 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 194 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 369 passed Senate committee; HB 428 failed to pass the House; HB 455 passed Senate committee and the Senate; HB 526 passed Senate committee; HB 544 passed the Senate; HB 618 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 655 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 811 passed Senate committee; HB 865 passed Senate committee; HB 978 passed Senate committee; HB 1074 passed Senate committee; SB 44 was concurred in and sent to the governor; SB 104 passed the House; SB 258 was passed by the House.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 190 passed Senate committee; HB 195 passed Senate committee; HB 254 failed to pass the House; HB 308 passed the Senate; HB 363 passed the Senate; HB 557 with minor amendment passed the Senate; HB 707 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 1012 passed Senate committee.

Regular legislative session through May 21, 2022

HB 298 and HB 536 were amended to make these benign bills, and were removed from the list of bad bills as a result.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 253 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 269 passed Senate committee; HB 369 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 412 passed the House; HB 438 was deferred involuntarily; HB 526 passed the House; HB 544 passed Senate committee; HB 681 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 747 was deferred involuntarily; HB 787 was deferred involuntarily; HB 811 passed the House; HB 953 passed Senate committee; HB 969 passed Senate committee; HB 1014 was deferred involuntarily, HB 1031 with major amendment passed the House; SB 4 with minor amendment passed the Senate;  SB 44 with minor amendment passed the House;  SB 112 with minor amendment passed House committee; SB 143 passed House committee; SB 144 passed House committee; SB 350 passed House committee.

THIS WEEL FOR THE BAD: HB 183 passed the House; HB 254 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 557 passed Senate committee.

Regular legislative session through May 14, 2022

HB 161, HB 774, and SB 47 were amended ways to remove these from the list of bad bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 12 passed Senate committee; HB 29 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 178 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 185 passed the House; HB 202 passed Senate committee; HB 356 failed to pass the House; HB 428 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 438 passed the House; HB 531 passed House committee; HB 681 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 701 passed Senate committee; HB 811 passed House committee; HB 837 was discharged from committee; HB 865 passed House committee; HB 884 with major amendment passed the House; HB 969 passed the House; HB 978 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 1074 passed the House; SB 4 failed to pass the Senate; SB 104 passed House committee; SB 112 passed the Senate; SB 141 with minor amendment passed House committee; SB 143 with minor amendment passed the Senate; SB 258 passed House committee; SB 354 with minor amendment passed House committee; SB 383 with minor amendment passed House committee.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 183 passed House committee; HB 303 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 391 with minor amendment passed the House;  HB 557 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 649 on reconsideration failed to pass the House; HB 688 failed to pass the House; HB 1012 passed the House; SB 201 passed Senate committee.

Regular legislative session through May 7, 2022

HB 559 was substituted for by HB 1074. Also, SB 256 was amended to become benign and SB  358 and 467 were improved enough to warrant removal from the list of bad bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 53 failed to pass the House; HB 80 passed the House; HB 117 with major amendment passed House committee; HB 194 passed the House; HB 269 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 356 passed House committee; HB 364 with major amendment passed the House; HB 369 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 438 with major amendment passed House committee; HB 455 passed the House; HB 544 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 837 was deferred involuntarily; HB 884 with major amendment passed House committee; HB 953 passed the House; HB 978 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 1031 with major amendment passed House committee; HB 1059 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; HB 1074 passed House committee; SB 44 passed House committee; SB 112 with major amendment passed Senate committee.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 195 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 391 with major amendment passed House committee; HB 649 failed to pass the House; HB 678 passed House committee.

Regular legislative session through Apr. 30, 2022

HB 461 was reported by substitute but the changes neutered the beneficial impact of the bill, and was removed from the list of good bills. The same happened to HB 665 except the content that made it bad was excised, so it was removed from the list of bad bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 12 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 53 with major amendment passed House committee; HB 80 passed House committee; HB 194 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 202 passed the House; HB 269 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 364 passed House committee; HB 494 passed House committee; HB 526 passed House committee; HB 554 passed House committee; HB 655 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 681 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 701 with major amendment passed the House; HB 865 passed House committee; HB 953 passed House committee; HB 969 passed House committee; HB 990 passed the House.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 190 passed the House; HB 195 passed House committee; HB 303 passed House committee; HB 649 passed House committee; HB 1012 with minor amendment passed House committee.

SCORECARD:
Total number of bills, House: 1066; total number of bills, Senate: 496.

Total number of good bills, House: 80; total number of good bills, Senate: 25.

 

Total number of bad bills, House: 53; total number of bad bills, Senate: 18.

 

Total House good bills heard in House committee: 37; total Senate good bills heard in Senate committee: 14.

 

Total House bad bills heard in House committee: 29; total Senate bad bills heard in Senate committee: 19.

 

Total House good bills approved by House committee: 29; total Senate good bills passed by Senate committee: 8.

 

Total House bad bills approved by House committee: 10; total Senate bad bills passed by Senate committee: 2.

 

Total House good bills approved by House: 13; total Senate good bills approved by Senate: 5.

 

Total House bad bills approved by House: 3; total Senate bad bills approved by Senate: 1.

 

Total House good bills heard in Senate committee: 0; total Senate good bills heard in House committee: 0.

 

Total House bad bills heard in Senate committee: 0; total Senate bad bills heard in House committee: 0.

 

Total House good bills approved by Senate committee: 0; total Senate good bills approved by House committee: 0.

 

Total House bad bills approved by Senate committee: 0; total Senate bad bills approved by House committee: 0.

 

Total House good bills approved by Senate: 0; total Senate good bills approved by House: 0.

 

Total House bad bills approved by Senate: 0; total Senate bad bills approved by House: 0.

 

Total House good bills going to governor: 0; total Senate good bills going to governor: 0.

 

Total House bad bills going to governor: 0; total Senate bad bills going to governor: 0.

 

Total House good bills signed by governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0; total Senate good bills signed by governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0.

Total House bad bills signed by governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0; total Senate bad bills signed by governor/filed with Secretary of State: 0.

Regular legislative session through Apr. 23, 2022

HB 807 was amended in committee to make it a benign bill and thus was removed from the list of bad bills. And SB 184 was withdrawn, so it also exits the list of bad bills.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 12 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 33 passed the House; HB 37 with minor amendment passed the House; HB 43 passed the House; HB 54 with minor amendment passed House committee and with major amendment passed the House; HB 202 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 412 passed House committee; HB 455 passed House committee; HB 544 passed House committee; HB 618 passed the House; HB 1059 with minor amendment passed the House; SB 44 passed the Senate; SB 104 with minor amendment passed Senate committee; SB 144 with minor amendment passed the Senate.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 190 passed House committee; HB 209 was deferred involuntarily; HB 308 passed the House; HB 363 passed the House.

Regular legislative session through Apr. 16, 2022

Both houses are hitting their stride with a considerable increase in significant bills processed.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 12 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 33 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 37 with major amendment passed House committee; HB 43 passed House committee; HB 701 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 990 passed House committee; SB 4 with major amendment passed Senate committee; SB 141 passed the Senate; SB 143 passed Senate committee; SB 144 passed Senate committee; SB 258 passed the Senate; SB 350 passed the Senate.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 363 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 557 with minor amendment passed House committee; HB 707 with minor amendment passed House committee.

Regular legislative session through Apr. 9, 2022

Bills came pouring in prior to the Tuesday filing deadline, and a number began moving.

THE GOOD: HB 917 by Rep. Beau Beaullieu would cut individual income taxes (similar bill HB 943); HB 928 by Rep. Mike Echols would prevent discrimination by health status; HB 947 would prevent electoral gamesmanship by elected officials (similar bill: SB 441); HB 953 by Rep. Alan Seabaugh would strengthen religious freedom protections for organizations; HB 969 by Seabaugh would clarify veto override procedures; HB 978 by Rep. Blake Miguez would prevent viewpoint discrimination in state contracting; HB 990 by Rep. Thomas Pressly would prohibit coronavirus vaccination mandates by state or local governments; HB 993 by Rep. Rick Edmonds would create conscience protections for counselors; HB 1014 by Rep. Ray Garofalo would prohibit employing harmful stereotypes as instructional material; HB 1031 by Rep. Barbara Freiberg would shore up revenues for transportation expenditures; HB 1056 by Rep. Valarie Hodges would monitor better voter registration; SB 415 by Sen. Barrow Peacock would bring greater transparency to litigation.

THE BAD: HB 945 by Rep. Stephanie Hilferty would create a too-generous paid leave option for state employees; HB 995 by Rep. Sam Jenkins would create a too-generous paid leave option for all (similar bill: HB 1003); HB 1012 by Rep. Rodney Lyons would add an unnecessary and costly Medicaid benefit; HB 1013 by Rep. Malinda White would add unneeded taxpayer expense with a state employee minimum wage; SB 451 by Sen. Gary Carter would impose additional taxpayer costs for expungement actions; SB 467 by Carter would waste taxpayer dollars on studying a wasteful passenger rail system; SB 468 by Sen. Gary Smith would unwisely discourage using the deterrent effect of capital punishment.

Regular legislative session through Apr. 2, 2022

Activity was a bit muted this week as the Legislature adjourned the session Tuesday to work in a veto session, which as it could have lasted five days necessitated standing down until the beginning of next week. Bill filing continued, as this is a general session.

THE GOOD: HB 884 by Rep. Beau Beaullieu would create a more realistic process for computing the state’s expenditure limit

THE BAD: HB 880 by Rep. Wilford Carter would institute an excessive state minimum wage; SB 403 by Sen. Joseph Bouie adds unnecessary costs to school districts and charter schools; SB 410 by Sen. Katrina Jackson unduly restricts discretionary personnel decisions by businesses.

Regular legislative session through Mar. 26, 2022

Bill filing has ceased, leaving substitute bills as the only new pieces of legislation eligible for introduction.

THE GOOD: HB 865 by Rep. Richard Nelson would prevent use of a flawed reading strategy from being taught in schools.

THE BAD: HB 846 by Rep. Denise Marcelle would allow districts non-residents to count for reapportionment purposes.

Regular legislative session through Mar. 19. 2022

There are a few more days to add bills to the session, and more have come in:

THE GOOD: HB 808 by Rep. Valarie Hodges would prevent teaching in manner that denigrates the worth of students individually; HB 811 by Rep. Blake Miguez would clarify prohibition of outside financial interference in elections; HB 821 by Hodges would prohibit state procurement from communist states and Russia; HB 824 by Rep. Laurie Schlegel would create a money-follows-the-student regime for public education (similar bill: HB 838); HB 837 by Rep. Dodie Horton would keep schools from interfering with family desires for discussions about sexual identity for pre-teens or from allowing educator confessionals about that in the course of classroom instruction of any student.

Meanwhile, bills with some controversy attached seldom begin their legislative process in the first week of the session (especially when it’s the “general” session) so action was light this week:

Good, Bad, and Ugly bills for the 2022 Regular Session

Welcome to coverage of the 2022 Regular Legislative Session of the Louisiana Legislature, with the good, bad and ugly bills that have been prefiled (although for this year, the ugly have been lumped in with the bad).

THE GOOD: HB 12 by Rep. Larry Frieman would establish a more balanced process for terminating emergency declarations; HB 25 by Rep. Danny McCormick prohibits retirement systems from investing with firms that practice viewpoint discrimination (similar bills: HB 141, HB 273, HB 342, HB 474); HB 29 by Rep. Richard Nelson would amend the Constitution to steer more nonrecurring revenues towards reducing unfunded accrued liabilities; HB 33 by Rep. Phillip DeVillier would create more educational choice (similar bills: HB 194, HB 227); HB 37 by McCormick would allow for open carry of firearms (similar bill: SB 143); HB 43 by Frieman would buttress Second Amendment protections; HB 47 by Rep. Kathy Edmonston would inform parents better about child immunization rights; HB 53 by Frieman would amend the Constitution to make health care autonomy a right (similar bills: HB 232, HB 253, HB 354, HB 596); HB 75 by Rep. Lance Harris would increase transparency of school instructional materials (similar bills: HB 356, HB 369, HB 453, HB 787); HB 80 by Rep. Rick Edmonds would create a buffer of savings for state spending; HB 117 by Rep. Mike Echols would improve health care outcomes by preventing discrimination of off-label drug prescribing by professionals; HB 166 by Rep. Gregory Miller would amend the Constitution to clarify timing of gubernatorial vetoes; HB 178 by Rep. Debbie Vilio would amend the Constitution to clarify the unconstitutional status of local governments allowing noncitizens to vote in their elections; HB 181 by Rep. Paul Hollis would create incentives for traffic systems that put safety rather than revenue-generating first; HB 185 by Rep. Charles Owen buttresses the right of expression on higher education campuses; HB 202 by Rep. Mike Johnson would provide more information about spending on behalf of political candidates; HB 269 by Nelson would improve child reading ability; HB 279 by Rep. Valarie Hodges would promote election security (similar bills: HB 559, SB 350); HB 359 by Rep. Beau Beaullieu would improve elections oversight; HB 364 by Rep. Scott McKnight would enhance higher education student protections; HB 396 by Rep. Beryl Amedee would strengthen oversight of food stamps; HB 401 by Hodges would strengthen history and civics education; HB 407 by Amedee would ensure better safe vaccines be added to those required for school attendance; HB 412 by Rep. Jonathan Goudeau would provide better oversight of unemployment compensation; HB 428 by Amedee would prevent education agencies from opining on medical requirements; HB 436 by Rep. Phillip Tarver would provide a rebate to most state taxpayers; HB 438 by Rep. Tony Bacala would shave slightly the temporary sales tax; HB 455 by Rep. Buddy Mincey would increase the pool of teachers; HB 461 by Rep. Edmond Jordan would abolish mayor’s courts; HB 494 by Rep. Troy Romero would increase microbrewery sales marketing (similar bill: HB 554); HB 500 by Bacala would provide greater oversight on bail proceedings; HB 526 by Edmonds would increase school fiscal accountability; HB 544 by Vilio would create additional crime deterrence; HB 570 by Foy Gadberry would prevent mutilation of children; HB 618 by Nelson would require schools to facilitate meetings and recruitment by federally-defined patriotic organizations; HB 655 by Rep. Jean-Paul Coussan would bring regulation to large solar farms; HB 663 by Frieman would stop having government serve as dues collector for professional organizations; HB 716 by McCormick would reduce taxes related to energy extraction; HB 747 by Rep. Ray Garofalo would prohibit employing harmful stereotypes as instructional material; HB 800 by Rep. Larry Bagley would prohibit most abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected.

SB 1 by Sen. Patrick McMath would amend the Constitution to prevent discrimination by vaccination status (similar bills: HB 54; HB 177, HB 531, HB 535, SB 11, SB 37, SB 58, SB 92, SB 141); SB 4 by Sen. Jay Morris would amend the Constitution to enhance using bail to improve community safety and court appearances (similar bill: SB 89); SB 29 by Sen. Stewart Cathey would bolster freedom of medical treatment by and speech rights of health care professionals; SB 44 by Sen. Beth Mizell would prevent discrimination against females in intercollegiate and scholastic sports; SB 56 by Sen. Bodi White would create a fund for future years’ use from excess federal grant monies (similar bill: SB 321); SB 104 by Mizell would prevent health care institution confiscation of communication devices; SB 112 by Sen. Robert Mills would expedite insurance payments from preauthorized health care interventions; SB 144 by Robert Mills would increase ballot security; SB 153 by Robert Mills would ensure fair compensation for use of water resources (similar bill: SB 351); SB 226 by Sen. Heather Cloud would provide for better enforcement of election offenses; SB 227 by Sen. Barry Milligan would increase oversight of foreign influence over higher education; SB 258 by Sharon Hewitt would make for a more balanced emergency election plan process (similar bills: HB 685, HB 701); SB 292 by Hewitt would mandate legislative approval of greenhouse gas regulations; SB 354 by Cathey would prevent local governments from attenuating consumer choice in energy provision; SB 375 by Sen. Barrow Peacock would transfer gradually avails from the temporary sales tax increase to roads construction; SB 383 by Peacock would reduce deceptive attorney advertising; SB 387 by Morris would ensure legal enforcement when district attorneys fail in their duties; SB 388 by Hewitt would prohibit sale of chemicals and their use by those not a physician to induce abortion.

THE BAD: HB 9 by Hollis would moot the benefits of homeowners’ associations; HB 106 by Rep. Kyle Green would reduce public safety by eliminating the death penalty (similar bill: SB 294); HB 125 by Rep. Candace Newell would make legal cannabis sales and distribution to most of the public (similar bill: HB 430); HB 132 by Green would name a state bridge after a convicted felon; HB 161 by Rep. Rodney Lyons would allow legislators to have more luxurious office space at taxpayer expense; HB 175 by Rep. Mandie Landry would discourage personal responsibility among inmates; HB 183 by Rep. Jason Hughes discourages higher education student responsibility; HB 190 by Rep. Travis Johnson makes it easier to hoot up under the guise of medicine; HB 195 by Rep. Aimee Freeman adds unnecessary expenses for schools; HB 205 by Rep. Stuart Bishop would lengthen legislative term limits; HB 206 by Green would remove information on ballots for judicial elections; HB 209 by Landry would allow local governments to override more effective state crime policy; HB 219 by Green would impose the flawed comparable worth doctrine onto state government salaries; HB 229 by Green would amend the Constitution to establish a job-killing state minimum wage (similar bills: HB 472, SB 269); HB 254 by Green would raise campaign contribution limits for local offices when these should be abolished; HB 259 by Rep. Tanner Magee would set in motion an elitist constitutional convention; HB 271 by Hughes would grant compulsory post-conviction relief to those convicted by non-unanimous juries (similar bill: HB 577); HB 298 by Jordan would remove reasonable rehabilitation methods for the incarcerated; HB 303 by Freeman would regulate too heavily landlords by adding tenant behavior unrelated to the First Amendment as a protected class (similar bill: HB 665); HB 308 by Rep. Patrick Jefferson would increase unwisely minimum unemployment benefits (similar bill: HB 506); HB 352 by Landry would add unnecessary taxpayer expenses to elections; HB 363 by Rep. Marcus Bryant would dilute education accountability (similar bill: HB 536); HB 391 by Bryant would increase dramatically higher education costs with no value added; HB 493 by Travis Johnson would expand gambling; HB 498 by Green would amend the Constitution to create a semi-permanent legislature; HB 557 by Rep. Matthew Willard would expand unnecessarily Medicaid coverage to contraceptives; HB 562 by Rep. Cedric Glover would amend the Constitution to create an unaccountable yet biased reapportionment process; HB 605 by Landry would use public funds to entice violation of the religious freedom of health care providers; HB 649 by Rep. Stephanie Hilferty would ban corporal punishment; HB 657 by Rep. Daryl Deshotel would discourage employment; HB 675 by Jordan would remove a source of borrowing from high-risk borrowers; HB 678 by Rep. Chad Brown would make more intrusive the bad fiscal practice of state taxpayers paying salaries of local judicial and law enforcement officers; HB 681 by Speaker Clay Schexnayder would streamline sales tax collection at the state level; HB 688 by Rep. Tammy Phelps would create a cumbersome teacher sabbatical rejection appeal process; HB 702 by Jordan would alter too vaguely the doctrine of qualified immunity; HB 707 by Rep. Royce Duplessis would remove individual initiative from expungement; HB 720 by Rep. Randal Gaines would create too lax rules for elections affected by a declared emergency; HB 722 by Jordan would create too difficult deadlines for pretrial activities by prosecutors; HB 774 by Glover would allow blanket expungement of marijuana possession convictions; HB 778 by Glover too intrusively regulates hydraulic fracturing; HB 779 by Glover would require schools instruct about extremely peripheral and uninfluential historical figures of the American south; HB 782 by Phelps would create a too intrusive process for appointing school principals; HB 794 by Jordan would provide for a wasteful solar-related credit (similar bills: HB 806, HB 807).

SB 20 by Sen. Cleo Fields would create too great of a regulatory burden on chemical manufacturers; SB 24 by Fields would create an unnecessary expenditure of state taxpayer dollars on local education employees; SB 37 by Fields would create an unnecessary and costly mandate on school districts; SB 155 by Sen. Patrick Connick would limit unwisely consumer choice in use of bagging material for purchased items; SB 184 by Sen. Gerald Boudreaux would reduce incentives for recipients to move off cash welfare; SB 187 by Sen. Patrick McMath would have state taxpayers further contribute to covering local government fiscal responsibilities; SB 201 by Sen. Katrina Jackson would increase unnecessarily public defense costs (similar bill: SB 202); SB 221 by Jackson would weaken criminal deterrence; SB 236 by Jackson would increase unnecessarily taxpayer costs for school meals; SB 248 by Sen. Jay Luneau would circumscribe too trivially employer hiring options (similar bill: HB 487); SB 256 by Sen. Regina Barrow would excuse certain bad behavior by students relative to suspension; SB 289 by Barrow would add a needless employer expense for paid sick leave; SB 327 by Sen. Gary Carter would create an overbroad procedure to seize legally-possessed arms; SB 334 by Jackson would allow for too easy expungement of politician malfeasance convictions; SB 343 by Carter would add needless expense to election conduct; SB 358 by Jackson would create and apply an overbroad definition of bullying in restricting student behavior.