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The Louisiana State Capitol. March 2021.
Louisiana State Lawmakers passed the $38 billion operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year Thursday, concluding their work on the bills a full two weeks before the end of the legislative session.
State spending bills are usually the last pieces to fall into place during a legislative session, but this year, with the state coffers flush with federal coronavirus relief dollars, the lawmakers finished all their backroom negotiations early.
“We had more resources this year. We all believe at the end of the day that we did the best we could with what we had,” Senate President Page Cortez (R-Lafayette) said Thursday, shortly after his chamber passed the budget.