Tehmi Chassion
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Position: Legislature
District: House District 44
Running for:
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Parishes: Lafayette
Seat mate: Alonzo Knox
Phone: call
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @
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Party: Democrat
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Notable Efforts
- Voted against HB866 (2024 - Regular Session) to provide relative to the refusal of certain medical services.
- Voted in favor HB743 (2024 - Regular Session) to provide for absentee voting by mail by qualified incarcerated voters.
- Voted against HB550 (2024 - Regular Session) to terminate approval of home study programs by the State Board. of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), provides for the enrollment of students in home schools, and provides for one-time notification to BESE upon such enrollment.
- Voted against HB288 (2024 - Regular Session) to provide relative to the inclusion of immunization records on autopsy reports of infants.
- October 14, 2023 - Elected Representative for House District 44.
- October 12, 2019 - Re-elected to the Lafayette Parish School Board (District 4).
- November 4, 2014 - Re-elected to the Lafayette Parish School Board (District 4).
- October 2, 2010 - Elected to the Lafayette Parish School Board (District 4).
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