LA FREEDOM CAUCUS APPLAUDS VETO OVERRIDES
Senate Votes to Override Sex Change Surgery for Minors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 18, 2023
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LA FREEDOM CAUCUS APPLAUDS VETO OVERRIDES
Senate Votes to Override Sex Change Surgery for Minors
BATON ROUGE—The Louisiana Freedom Caucus (LAFC) applauds the override of several important bills vetoed by our lame duck governor. Thanks to the efforts of the caucus and conservatives in the House, there were enough votes to override three important bills.
HB 648 that prohibits surgery and use of puberty blockers solely for the purpose of attempting to change the sex of a minor child. The Senate also voted to override the governor’s veto. This bill becomes law.
HB 399 by LAFC member Rep. Kathy Edmonston to mandate that parents have to be informed about exemption options for vaccines required for attendance at Louisiana schools. The Senate failed to override this bill.
HB 125 that prohibits some ownership of agricultural land by foreign adversaries. This bill failed to get the votes to override in the Senate.
“Shamefully, House Speaker Clay Schexnayder worked tirelessly to prevent Republican members from bringing their vetoed bills up for reconsideration. Only after being informed that Louisiana Freedom Caucus members were prepared to bring a motion to remove him as Speaker did Schexnayder relent and allow the other bills to be heard,” said Louisiana Freedom Caucus Chairman, Alan Seabaugh.
Seabaugh continued, “Thankfully, House members were able to override the vetoes on three bills vetoed by liberal Governor John Bel Edwards. We are proud to have played a significant part in this historic process today. We wish a few more of our Republican colleagues would have taken their jobs more seriously and been here for the votes many of which came only one vote short.”
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Sucks IF only 1 veto overridden.
The whole term of republican so called “super majority” intentionally failed to accommodate democrat gov. bel boy (padding $ pockets of schexnayder and page cortez) due to schexnayder House/page & (robideaux)Senate...schexnayder has no credibility except as a convincing LIAR, he MUST BE EXPELLED FROM political office and NEVER ALLOWED near power again!!
Thank you for your hard work on this. Even though only one veto was overridden, it was an important one and you actually forced a vote on many others, unlike 2 years ago. Next year, we won't have to fight the radical left-wing vetoes again. f Elections do have consequences.