Louisiana budget, debt, and interest

Wages and cash benefits can be components of household money income. Census income is measured before taxes, so tax relief alone is not an increase in this statistic; the provision does not determine the statewide median. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Louisiana evidence context: Median household income. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

(3) "Eligible employee" means any individual identified in R.S. 17:43, 17:411, 17:441, 17:491, 17:1170, 17:1200, or 17:1205 who is classified as full or part time and has been employed for at least twelve months with a local education agency. (4) "LEA" means local education agency, which has the same definition as in R.S. 17:1942. (5) "Paid parental leave" means six weeks, or two hundred forty hours, of paid leave at one hundred percent of the eligible employee's base pay without deduction to an eligible employee's current or accrued annual, sick, or compensatory leave balances. (6) "Qualifying event" means: (a) Before and after the birth of a child, including but not limited to prenatal and postnatal appointments. (b) Pregnancy loss, including stillbirth. (c) Placement of a child with the employee for adoption, including but not limited to mandatory meetings related to adoption or preplacement and post-placement court proceedings. (d) Placement of a child with the employee for foster care, including but not limited to mandatory meetings related to foster placement or preplacement and post-placement court proceedings. (7) "Superintendent" means the superintendent of the Louisiana Department of Education. B.(1) Pursuant to this Section, every city, parish, and other local public school board shall: (a) Grant paid parental leave to an eligible employee who experiences a qualifying event, and as of the date of the qualifying event has been employed by the LEA for at least twelve months. (b) Allow the position to be filled by the appointment of substitute teachers when it has been temporarily vacated by a teacher who has been granted paid parental leave, or by a teacher transferred to the position when it has been temporarily vacated by a teacher taking a maternity, foster, or adoptive leave pursuant to this Section. A substitute teacher appointed pursuant to this Subparagraph shall not acquire any tenure rights or privileges, unless the substitute teacher has subsequently been appointed to fill a regular vacancy and has the necessary qualifications. (c) Restore an eligible employee to the same position and same assignment at the same school held before the taking of paid parental leave upon return from such leave. (d) Allow an eligible employee to use paid parental leave continuously or intermittently, provided that the paid parental leave is used within twelve weeks of the qualifying event. (e) Prohibit an eligible employee who takes fewer than six weeks, or two hundred forty hours, of paid parental leave reserving his remaining weeks of paid parental leave for a subsequently occurring qualifying event. (f) Compensate a full-time employee at the rate of one hundred percent of the employee's base pay pursuant to the salary schedule provided in R.S. 17:418 for a period not to exceed six weeks during the available leave period. (g) Compensate a part-time employee at the rate of one hundred percent of the employee's base pay for a period not to exceed six weeks, based upon a prorated basis corresponding to the percentage of hours the employee normally works. (h) Prohibit the donation of paid parental leave to another employee or leave pool. (i) Allow both parents, if they are eligible employees, paid parental leave to be taken concurrently, consecutively, or at a different time as the other eligible employee. (j) Prohibit requiring the use of an eligible employee's sick, annual, or other accrued leave before taking paid parental leave. Paid parental leave shall run concurrently with leave requested under the Family and Medical Leave Act "FMLA". (k) At least twelve months must elapse from the beginning of one parental leave period before an employee is eligible for another parental leave period. For a new parental leave period, there must be a new qualifying event on or after the twelve month waiting period. […] Section 3. The rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this Act shall be adopted and promulgated by November 1, 2026. Section 4. The implementation of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the appropriation of funds by the legislature for this purpose.

Wages and cash benefits can be components of household money income. Census income is measured before taxes, so tax relief alone is not an increase in this statistic; the provision does not determine the statewide median. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Louisiana evidence context: Median household income. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

(3) "Eligible employee" means any individual identified in R.S. 17:43, 17:411, 17:441, 17:491, 17:1170, 17:1200, or 17:1205 who is classified as full or part time and has been employed for at least twelve months with a local education agency. (4) "LEA" means local education agency, which has the same definition as in R.S. 17:1942. (5) "Paid parental leave" means six weeks, or two hundred forty hours, of paid leave at one hundred percent of the eligible employee's base pay without deduction to an eligible employee's current or accrued annual, sick, or compensatory leave balances. (6) "Qualifying event" means: (a) Before and after the birth of a child, including but not limited to prenatal and postnatal appointments. (b) Pregnancy loss, including stillbirth. (c) Placement of a child with the employee for adoption, including but not limited to mandatory meetings related to adoption or preplacement and post-placement court proceedings. (d) Placement of a child with the employee for foster care, including but not limited to mandatory meetings related to foster placement or preplacement and post-placement court proceedings. (7) "Superintendent" means the superintendent of the Louisiana Department of Education. B.(1) Pursuant to this Section, every city, parish, and other local public school board shall: (a) Grant paid parental leave to an eligible employee who experiences a qualifying event, and as of the date of the qualifying event has been employed by the LEA for at least twelve months. (b) Allow the position to be filled by the appointment of substitute teachers when it has been temporarily vacated by a teacher who has been granted paid parental leave, or by a teacher transferred to the position when it has been temporarily vacated by a teacher taking a maternity, foster, or adoptive leave pursuant to this Section. A substitute teacher appointed pursuant to this Subparagraph shall not acquire any tenure rights or privileges, unless the substitute teacher has subsequently been appointed to fill a regular vacancy and has the necessary qualifications. (c) Restore an eligible employee to the same position and same assignment at the same school held before the taking of paid parental leave upon return from such leave. (d) Allow an eligible employee to use paid parental leave continuously or intermittently, provided that the paid parental leave is used within twelve weeks of the qualifying event. (e) Prohibit an eligible employee who takes fewer than six weeks, or two hundred forty hours, of paid parental leave reserving his remaining weeks of paid parental leave for a subsequently occurring qualifying event. (f) Compensate a full-time employee at the rate of one hundred percent of the employee's base pay pursuant to the salary schedule provided in R.S. 17:418 for a period not to exceed six weeks during the available leave period. (g) Compensate a part-time employee at the rate of one hundred percent of the employee's base pay for a period not to exceed six weeks, based upon a prorated basis corresponding to the percentage of hours the employee normally works. (h) Prohibit the donation of paid parental leave to another employee or leave pool. (i) Allow both parents, if they are eligible employees, paid parental leave to be taken concurrently, consecutively, or at a different time as the other eligible employee. (j) Prohibit requiring the use of an eligible employee's sick, annual, or other accrued leave before taking paid parental leave. Paid parental leave shall run concurrently with leave requested under the Family and Medical Leave Act "FMLA". (k) At least twelve months must elapse from the beginning of one parental leave period before an employee is eligible for another parental leave period. For a new parental leave period, there must be a new qualifying event on or after the twelve month waiting period. […] Section 3. The rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this Act shall be adopted and promulgated by November 1, 2026. Section 4. The implementation of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the appropriation of funds by the legislature for this purpose.

Wages and cash benefits can be components of household money income. Census income is measured before taxes, so tax relief alone is not an increase in this statistic; the provision does not determine the statewide median. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Louisiana evidence context: Median household income. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

2. Appropriations (a) Definitions In this section— (1) the term agency means each authority of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States; and (2) the term covered individual— (A) means an employee of an agency; and (B) includes— (i) a contractor who provides support to an employee described in subparagraph (A); and (ii) a member of the Armed Forces on active duty. (b) Appropriations For fiscal year 2026, and any fiscal year thereafter, for any period during which interim continuing appropriations or full-year appropriations for that fiscal year are not in effect for an agency, there are appropriated to the head of the agency, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments otherwise payable on a regular basis to covered individuals with respect to the agency. (c) Termination Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted under subsection (b) shall be available to the head of an agency until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) The enactment into law of appropriations for the agency until the end of the applicable fiscal year (including a continuing appropriation) that provide amounts for the purposes for which amounts are made available under subsection (b). (2) The enactment into law of appropriations for the agency until the end of the applicable fiscal year (including a continuing appropriation) without any appropriation for such purposes. (d) Interim continuing appropriations Appropriations made available under subsection (b) may not be obligated by the head of an agency during any period during which continuing appropriations for the purposes for which amounts are made available under subsection (b) are in effect for the agency. (e) Charging to full-Year appropriations Obligations or expenditures made by the head of an agency pursuant to subsection (b) shall be charged to the applicable appropriation for the agency whenever a regular appropriation bill or a measure making continuing appropriations until the end of the applicable fiscal year for the agency becomes law. (f) Retroactive effective date This Act shall take effect as if enacted on September 30, 2025.

Wages and cash benefits can be components of household money income. Census income is measured before taxes, so tax relief alone is not an increase in this statistic; the provision does not determine the statewide median. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Louisiana evidence context: Median household income. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

2. Continuing appropriations for members of the Armed Forces There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2026 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, who perform active service or inactive duty training during such period. 3. Termination Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act shall be available until the enactment into law of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in section 2.

Foreign-born residents include naturalized citizens and lawfully and unlawfully present noncitizens. A provision about a particular immigration status concerns only a subset of that population; it does not change a person’s birthplace. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Louisiana evidence context: Residents who are foreign-born. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

§112.22. Unlawful entry or reentry into the state of Louisiana by an alien A. The crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry is committed when an alien enters or reenters into this state and is unlawfully present in this state. B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry into this state by an alien upon a first offense shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both. (2) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry into this state by an alien upon a second or subsequent offense shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than one year nor more than two years, fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both. C. It shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution to the crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry into this state by an alien that either: (1) The defendant is lawfully present in this state because the federal government has granted the defendant lawful presence in the United States or asylum pursuant to 8 U.S.C. Section 1158. (2) The defendant's conduct does not constitute a violation of 8 U.S.C. Section 1325(a), relative to illegal entry into the United States. D. This Section shall not apply to an alien unlawfully present in the United States if he has been a necessary witness to or victim of a crime of domestic violence, rape, sexual exploitation, sexual assault, murder, manslaughter, assault, battery, human trafficking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, involuntary servitude, fraud in foreign labor contracting, blackmail, extortion, or witness tampering. […] D. The governor, with the legal assistance of the attorney general, is hereby authorized to negotiate and assist the state of Texas in an interstate compact for border security among interested states with the governor of the state of Texas in securing the southern border of the United States of America. E. Any interstate compact that may be developed and executed under the authority of this Section shall, in order to take effect, represent a voluntary association of sovereign states of this United States of America, with the understanding that any such interstate compact shall not in any way increase the political authority of the compacting states in relation to the federal government or in any other manner that violates the Constitution of the United States of America. F. The interstate compact authorized by this Section shall provide for joint action among the states that participate in the compact to pursue all security priorities, as follows: (1) Sharing of law enforcement intelligence on illegal activity occurring at or in proximity to the United States-Mexico border. (2) Sharing of state resources in order to build physical barriers, comprehensive technological surveillance systems, or combinations of barriers and surveillance systems on state property for the purposes of deterring and detecting illegal activity at or in proximity to the United States-Mexico border. (3) Sharing of other law enforcement resources to ensure the protection of personnel and property of citizens of the states participating in the compact. G. Once the governor, with the assistance of the attorney general, negotiates and assists the governor of the state of Texas with preparation and finalization of the compact to secure the United States-Mexico border, the governor shall promptly submit the Interstate Compact for Border Security to the legislature for approval and the appropriation of necessary funds to fulfill the purposes provided for in Subsection F of this Section. […] Section 4. The provisions of this Section and Section 1 shall take effect on and become effective immediately upon, and to the extent permitted, by the occurrence of any of the following circumstances: (A) Any decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of United States v. Texas, Docket No. 23A814, which affirms the Act which originated as Texas Senate Bill No. 4 of the 2023 88th Legislature Fourth Called Legislative Session of the Texas Legislature, which enacted Texas Penal Code Section 51.01 et seq, entitled "Illegal Entry Into the State", that recognizes the right of states to protect their citizens of their respective states when "actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit delay", pursuant to Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United States of America. (B) Adoption of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America that, in whole or in part, restores or increases the authority of the state of Louisiana to prohibit or limit the unlawful entry or reentry by an alien without lawful presence in this state should the Supreme Court of the United States fail to affirm the provisions of Subsection A of this Section. Section 5. The provisions of this Section and Section 2 of this Act shall become effective upon any executive order or other such executive action by the governor of the state of Texas in furtherance of the Act which originated as Texas Senate Bill No. 1403 of the 2023 Regular Session of the 88th Texas Legislature, which enacted Texas Government Code Section 794 et seq, entitled "Interstate Compact for Border Security" which authorizes the governor of the state of Texas to develop and execute an interstate compact for border security for among interested states.

Foreign-born residents include naturalized citizens and lawfully and unlawfully present noncitizens. A provision about a particular immigration status concerns only a subset of that population; it does not change a person’s birthplace. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Louisiana evidence context: Residents who are foreign-born. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

§112.22. Unlawful entry or reentry into the state of Louisiana by an alien A. The crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry is committed when an alien enters or reenters into this state and is unlawfully present in this state. B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry into this state by an alien upon a first offense shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both. (2) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry into this state by an alien upon a second or subsequent offense shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than one year nor more than two years, fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both. C. It shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution to the crime of unlawful entry or unlawful reentry into this state by an alien that either: (1) The defendant is lawfully present in this state because the federal government has granted the defendant lawful presence in the United States or asylum pursuant to 8 U.S.C. Section 1158. (2) The defendant's conduct does not constitute a violation of 8 U.S.C. Section 1325(a), relative to illegal entry into the United States. D. This Section shall not apply to an alien unlawfully present in the United States if he has been a necessary witness to or victim of a crime of domestic violence, rape, sexual exploitation, sexual assault, murder, manslaughter, assault, battery, human trafficking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, involuntary servitude, fraud in foreign labor contracting, blackmail, extortion, or witness tampering. […] D. The governor, with the legal assistance of the attorney general, is hereby authorized to negotiate and assist the state of Texas in an interstate compact for border security among interested states with the governor of the state of Texas in securing the southern border of the United States of America. E. Any interstate compact that may be developed and executed under the authority of this Section shall, in order to take effect, represent a voluntary association of sovereign states of this United States of America, with the understanding that any such interstate compact shall not in any way increase the political authority of the compacting states in relation to the federal government or in any other manner that violates the Constitution of the United States of America. F. The interstate compact authorized by this Section shall provide for joint action among the states that participate in the compact to pursue all security priorities, as follows: (1) Sharing of law enforcement intelligence on illegal activity occurring at or in proximity to the United States-Mexico border. (2) Sharing of state resources in order to build physical barriers, comprehensive technological surveillance systems, or combinations of barriers and surveillance systems on state property for the purposes of deterring and detecting illegal activity at or in proximity to the United States-Mexico border. (3) Sharing of other law enforcement resources to ensure the protection of personnel and property of citizens of the states participating in the compact. G. Once the governor, with the assistance of the attorney general, negotiates and assists the governor of the state of Texas with preparation and finalization of the compact to secure the United States-Mexico border, the governor shall promptly submit the Interstate Compact for Border Security to the legislature for approval and the appropriation of necessary funds to fulfill the purposes provided for in Subsection F of this Section. […] Section 4. The provisions of this Section and Section 1 shall take effect on and become effective immediately upon, and to the extent permitted, by the occurrence of any of the following circumstances: (A) Any decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of United States v. Texas, Docket No. 23A814, which affirms the Act which originated as Texas Senate Bill No. 4 of the 2023 88th Legislature Fourth Called Legislative Session of the Texas Legislature, which enacted Texas Penal Code Section 51.01 et seq, entitled "Illegal Entry Into the State", that recognizes the right of states to protect their citizens of their respective states when "actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit delay", pursuant to Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United States of America. (B) Adoption of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America that, in whole or in part, restores or increases the authority of the state of Louisiana to prohibit or limit the unlawful entry or reentry by an alien without lawful presence in this state should the Supreme Court of the United States fail to affirm the provisions of Subsection A of this Section. Section 5. The provisions of this Section and Section 2 of this Act shall become effective upon any executive order or other such executive action by the governor of the state of Texas in furtherance of the Act which originated as Texas Senate Bill No. 1403 of the 2023 Regular Session of the 88th Texas Legislature, which enacted Texas Government Code Section 794 et seq, entitled "Interstate Compact for Border Security" which authorizes the governor of the state of Texas to develop and execute an interstate compact for border security for among interested states.