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Special session on Louisiana sales taxes begins today

Source: wwl.com - May 22, 2018

The special session of the Louisiana Legislature kicks off today, giving lawmakers two weeks to come to an agreement on how to handle a $648 million budget shortfall that threatens to potentially devastate healthcare and higher education.

A special session in February failed. Legislative attempts to craft a budget with $648 million in cuts were vetoed, but Governor Edwards says this will be different.

“The legislature has the benefit of the experience that they’ve had over the last couple of weeks really looking at this budget and how nasty it is and having heard from constituents all over the state that they expect us to do better.”

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