Ken Brass — House - District 58
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HB71: Revises the membership of the Dual Enrollment Task Force
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-04
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Co-sponsors: Tehmi Chassion (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
HB209: Provides relative to the financing structure for public works projects in Ascension Parish
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-11
Author: Ken Brass (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
LOCAL BILL / LEGISLATIVE CARVE OUT
HB350: Provides relative to drainage districts
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Pending: 🏛 Transportation, Highways and Public Works 39 📅 Not Scheduled
HB381: Increases the population limitation of municipalities for purposes of eligibility for a waiver of the matching funds requirement for capital outlay projects (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)
Last Action: Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Ken Brass (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
HB383: Postpones the termination of a tax credit for C-corporations for local inventory taxes paid but reduces the amount of the credit for those taxpayers (EG1 -$130,000,000 SD RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
Date: 2025-06-04
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Co-sponsors: Franklin Foil (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HB395: Expands eligible programs for M.J. Foster Promise Program funding to include those associated with LED projects (EG +$1,257,762 SD EX See Note)
Last Action: Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
Date: 2025-05-12
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Pending: 🏛 Finance 36 📅 Not Scheduled
HB398: Increases the tax levied on smokeless tobacco and dedicates a portion of avails of the tax into the Youth Cessation and Prevention Fund (OR +$8,900,000 GF RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: 🥈 Ken Brass (D)
Co-sponsors: 👤 Mandie Landry (D)
Pending: 🏛 Ways and Means 93 📅 Not Scheduled
HB517: Establishes the Youth Cessation and Prevention Fund and dedicates a portion of the avails of the tax levied on smokeless tobacco to the fund (RE -$6,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
Date: 2025-06-03
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Co-sponsors: Mandie Landry (D)
Pending: 🏛 Finance 36 📅 Not Scheduled
HB70: Revises initial academic eligibility requirements for a TOPS-Tech award (EG INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Last Action: Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
Date: 2025-04-22
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 71 📅 Not Scheduled
Expands eligibility criteria for a TOPS-Tech award to include the attainment of early college credit in high school through completion of dual enrollment courses or other approved skills and learning measures.
WARRANTS FURTHER EVALUATION
HR102: Designates April 30, 2025, as Louisiana Chemical Industry Day at the state capitol
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-05-09
Author: Ken Brass (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
HR122: Designates May 8, 2025, as St. James Parish Day at the state capitol
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-05-09
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Co-sponsors: Jeff Wiley (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HR275: Authorizes and directs the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate public bid law, parish or municipal infrastructure project delivery, and legislative proposals to improve efficiency and timeliness in infrastructure project delivery
Last Action: Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
Date: 2025-06-02
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Pending: 🏛 House and Governmental Affairs 50 📅 Not Scheduled
HR361: Recognizes the Donaldsonville Juneteenth Celebration and commends the oldest African American businesses of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, for their contributions to the prosperity of the city
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-06-13
Author: Ken Brass (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
HR374: Creates the Youth Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation Task Force to study the effects and impacts of nicotine use by persons under twenty-one years of age
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-06-13
Author: Ken Brass (D)
Co-sponsors: Alonzo Knox (D) Tehmi Chassion (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
Removes two obsolete members from the task force, and adds two members, from the Pelican Institute.
Formerly, before the amendment, it would have added the CEO of Leaders for a Better La. and the La. state director of The Education Trust in La.
The Education Trust is a Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg funded, DEI pushing org.