Louisiana Senate reins in tax cut and school voucher plans

Published: June 3, 2025

By: By Anna Puleo, LSU Manship School News Service

BATON ROUGE–The Louisiana Senate is reining in several major proposals pushed by Gov. Jeff Landry and House conservatives, rejecting additional tax cuts and scaling back spending on private school vouchers amid caution over the state’s longer-term financial outlook.

Despite clearing the House with little resistance, two key tax bills were effectively shelved by the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee earlier this week.

The committee declined to take up a plan to further phase down personal income taxes, and it slashed funding for a Landry plan to expand state funding for parents to send their children to private schools.

Read more at Bossier Press-Tribune.