stand-still budget
May 30, 2017
Louisiana legislators return from the Memorial Day break with little more than a week left in which to broker a compromise between the House and Senate on the $28 billion state budget.
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$56.5 billion - Increase in disposable personal income in April, over the previous month - an increase of 0.4 percent. (Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis)May 2, 2017
Health care services for the poor, K-12 public school education and safety-net services for abused and neglected children are among the state services that would take big hits next year in a spending plan approved by the House budget committee in a party-line vote on Monday.
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$1 billion - Preliminary estimate of the amount of federal funding Louisiana could lose as result of the $235 million reduction in state funding for the Department of Health. (Source: The Times Picayune/Nola.com)April 26, 2017
The centerpiece of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ tax package - a proposed commercial activity tax on corporations contained in House BIll 628 - failed to make it out of the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday.