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The Louisiana State Legislature (French: Législature de l'État de Louisiane; [1] Spanish: Legislatura del Estado de Luisiana) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body , comprising the lower house , the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house , the Louisiana State ...
The Louisiana Revised Statutes (R.S.) contain a significant amount of legislation, arranged in titles or codes. [2] Apart from this, the Louisiana Civil Code forms the core of private law, [3] the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (C.C.P.) governs civil procedure, the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure (C.Cr.P.) governs criminal procedure, the Louisiana Code of Evidence governs the law of ...
The legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana has convened many times since statehood became effective on April 30, 1812. "The legislature was elected every two years until 1880, when a sitting legislature was elected every four years thereafter."
(The Center Square) — Louisiana lawmakers have finalized a sweeping overhaul of the state's tax system, passing a package of reforms aimed at reducing income taxes, increasing sales taxes, and ...
A slew of new Louisiana laws, recently passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, went into effect Tuesday. Among the laws are those that ...
Louisiana House Bill 71 (H.B. 71), or Act 676, [1] was a law passed by the Louisiana State Legislature and signed by Governor Jeff Landry in June of 2024 that directs schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
A slew of Louisiana legislation, including a first-of-its-kind law that allows judges to impose the punishment of surgical castration for offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children ...
The Louisiana Civil Code (LCC) constitutes the core of private law in the State of Louisiana. [1] The Louisiana Civil Code is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States: substantive law between private sector parties has a civil law character, based on the French civil code and Spanish codes and ultimately Roman law, with some common law ...