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Votes at a glance: March 17 Louisiana Senate passes multiple bills on third reading
Summary
On March 17, the Senate recorded final passage on numerous bills including highway/bridge namings, retirement and tax notices, seat-belt clarification, hospice exemptions, and license-plate and homestead-registration changes; most measures passed unanimously or with no recorded opposition.
During its March 17 floor session the Senate completed third-reading work on a broad slate of bills. Items passed with recorded roll totals (examples from the transcript): SB160 (Speaker Joe Salter Memorial Highway) — recorded as 37–0 final passage; SB46 (unlawful operation of a group home) — 37–0; SB26 (OPTs) — 37–0; SB30 (telehealth for weight‑loss) — 37–0; SB84 (prostate screening coverage) — 37–0. Other items handled on the floor included a series of local highway and bridge namings, committee-referred bills, and committee reports; some items were taken up with technical amendments adopted by unanimous consent.
Many bills were handled with brief sponsor remarks and unanimous final-passage votes recorded on the transcript; several sponsors asked for coauthors immediately after passage, and procedural motions (reconsider and lay on table) followed multiple final-passage votes. The session also included adoption of concurrent resolutions and multiple committee reports reported favorably earlier in the day.
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