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Legislators convene in Louisiana

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The New Orleans Times-Picayune carries the AP dispatch, "Lawmakers return Monday for wide-open regular session."Gov. Bobby Jindal's agenda for the regular legislative session that begins Monday centers on a revamp of worker training, but lawmakers are offering a hodgepodge of other ideas that touch on crime, education, spending and more. Proposals range from bans on cell phone use while driving, droopy pants and the death penalty to a complete restructuring of hundreds of millions of dollars in construction spending. For the more than 60 new legislators ? out of 144 ? this session will be the first time they get to introduce many of their ideas to the House and Senate.And:The regular session begins Monday at noon. It must end by June 23...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).