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In the midst of all the chaos during the final minutes of the session, lawmakers were forced to vote on several amendments to the state budget with little to no time to review them.
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office and jail would receive $21.6 million over the next year under the current state budget proposal.
Louisiana legislators could struggle to fund public school teacher pay raises and a state construction plan.
Rapides Parish Assessor Rick Ducote has updated some of his numbers after the Illuminator published an investigation that revealedsuper low property values for multiple elected officials.
Sheriff Mark Wood, for example, has been billed $0 for property taxes on his own home for at least the past seven years.