Mark Wright
Mark Wright's Badges Earned
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Mark Wright's Major Donors
Mark Wright's Notable Efforts
- 🟢 Voted to approve SB244 (Hensgens) to end Legacy Lawsuits and Carbon Capture Expropriation
- 🟢 Voted in committee for a state takeover of the Republican Party (HB200, 2025 regular session)
- 🟢 Voted against HB267 (2023 Regular Session) seeking a moratorium on Carbon Capture projects in Lake Maurepas.
- 🟢 Voted in favor of SB1 (2024 Extraordinary Session) "Constitutional Carry" to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns lawfully without a permit
- 🟢 Voted in favor of SB2 (2024 Extraordinary Session) relative to liability for persons authorized to carry a concealed handgun
- 🟢 Voted in favor of HB1 (2024 Extraordinary Session) to create the Truth and Transparency in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System Program
- 🟢 Voted in favor of HB2 (2024 Extraordinary Session) to provide for immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances for peace officers and public entities that employ or appoint peace officers
- 🟢 Voted in favor of HB4 (2024 Extraordinary Session) to provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures
- 🟢 Voted in favor of HB9 (2024 Extraordinary Session) to provides relative to parole
- 🟢 Voted in favor of HB9 (2024 Extraordinary Session) to provides relative to diminution of sentence
- 🟢 Voted in favor of HB23 (2024 Extraordinary Session) to provide with respect to procedures for challenging the constitutionality of a statute or law
- 🟢 Voted in favor HB866 (2024 - Regular Session) to provide relative to the refusal of certain medical services.
- 🟢 Voted in favor 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 in favor of HB288 (2024 - Regular Session) to provide relative to the inclusion of immunization records on autopsy reports of infants.
- 🟢 Co-sponsored HB17 (2024 1st Extraordinary Session) to provide for closed party primary elections for certain offices.
- 🟢 2023 - Received a 100% Pro-Life Voting Record with Louisiana Right to Life as a State Legislator and answered the Louisiana Right to Life Questionnaire 100% Pro-Life.
- 🟢 Introduced HB145 (2023) to change the rates and brackets for purposes of calculating income tax for individuals, estates, and trusts from a graduated rate system to a single flat rate of 4%
- 🟢 Introduced HB146 (2023) to change the corporate income tax from a graduated schedule of rates dependent on the taxable income of the taxpayer to a flat rate of 4%
- 🟢 Introduced HB147 (2023) to establish as a condition for parole eligibility, provides that offenders shall not have any disciplinary offenses within 24 consecutive months prior to their parole eligibility and hearing date
- 🟢 Introduced HB151 (2023) to provide for forfeiture of good time and credits earned toward diminution of sentence in certain circumstances
- 🟢 Introduced HB221 (2023) to require an agency to identify two agency rules to repeal at the same time it proposes to adopt a new rule and grants to a select committee on oversight of a house of the legislature the same power and authority regarding review of agency rules granted to the standing committees and any oversight subcommittee thereof
- 🟢 Introduced HB257 (2023) to reduce the state sales and use tax rate from 4.45% to 4% and extends sales and use taxes imposed by the state and political subdivisions to digital goods delivered into La.
- 🟢 Introduced HB170 (2022) to allow a candidate to receive campaign contributions in the form of crypto-currency
- 🟢 Introduced HB179 (2022) seeking a Constitutional Amendment to remove the line item veto power of the governor
- 🟢 Introduced HB227 (2022) to create and provide for a program to provide state funding for the education of students with exceptionalities not enrolled in public school
- 🟢 Introduced HB390 (2022) to provide for expiration of agency rules
- 🟢 Introduced HB405 (2022) to provide for calling a constitutional convention and preparations therefo
- 🟢 Introduced HB476 (2022) to place the Department of Economic Development within the office of the lieutenant governor
- 🟢 Introduced HB640 (2022) regarding vaccines and vaccine-related pharmaceuticals produced with aborted human fetal-derived cells or human embryonic-derived cells
- 🟢 Introduced HB666 (2022) to require state statutes or rules to be interpreted de novo in judicial review cases
- 🟢 Introduced HB696 (2022) to exempt in-state housing manufacturers from certain licensure requirements
- 🟢 Introduced HB741 (2022) to require the Department of Revenue to accept virtual currency as a form of payment of taxes, licenses, fees, penalties, and interest due to the state
- 🟢 Introduced HB799 (2022) to require the La. Dept of Health (department) to find good cause when enforcing certain regulations on a manufacturer, packer, or proprietor of certain products
- 🟢 Introduced HB802 (2022) to allow banks to provide custodial services relative to digital access
- 🟢 Introduced HB804 (2022) to exempt blockchain tokens from securities law when certain conditions are met
- 🟢 Introduced HB985 (2022) to change the definition of "currency" to include "virtual currency"
- 🟢 Introduced HB1010 (2022) to allow a governing authority to petition the state land office (office) to create deregulated industrial power zones (power zones)
- 🟢 Introduced HCR103 (2022) to direct the Cash Management Review Board to consider and report on ways the state can utilize cryptocurrency
- 🟢 Introduced HCR104 (2022) requesting the Dept. of Revenue to study and report on the feasibility of accepting virtual currency as a form of payment of taxes, licenses, fees, penalties, and interest due to the state
- 🟢 Introduced HR180 (2022) requesting the Supervisory Committee on Campaign Finance Disclosure to study issues surrounding the acceptance of campaign contributions in the form of crypto-currency
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