Jack McFarland
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- 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 against HB743 (2024 - Regular Session) to provide for absentee voting by mail by qualified incarcerated voters.
- Voted in favor of HB288 (2024 - Regular Session) to provide relative to the inclusion of immunization records on autopsy reports of infants.
- 2023 - Received a 100% Pro-Life Voting Record with Louisiana Right to Life as a State Legislator.
- Co-sponsored HB08 (2023) to require the display of the national motto in each classroom in each public school and in each public postsecondary education institution
- Introduced HB33 (2023) to modify structural pest control provisions applicable to the terms of research committee members and examination requirements for registered technicians
- Introduced HB278 (2023) seeking a Constitutional Amendment that increases amounts of state severance tax revenues remitted to parishes, repeals a previously adopted trigger for increasing these amounts which has never been implemented, requires that parishes expend portions of these amounts in a manner consistent with expenditure of monies they receive from the Parish Transportation Fund, and implements provisions of the current constitution for the use of certain severance tax revenues for Atchafalaya Basin conservation projects
- Introduced HB384 (2023) to clarify that energy produced from forest products' manufacturing bioenergy feedstocks and agricultural harvesting may be considered renewable and carbon neutral
- Introduced HB434 (2023) to provide for a quarterly report entitled the "Healthy Louisiana Claims Report" and establishes requirements for the report
- Co-sponsored HB462 (2023) to require each public school governing authority to post on its website certain fiscal information and requires the treasurer to post the information on the website of the Dept. of the Treasury
- Introduced HB502 (2023) to remove the requirement that persons and entities seeking to qualify as commercial farmers report income and expenses on a federal Schedule F form or other federal tax form to the Department of Revenue
- Introduced HB573 (2023) to specify that any public contract provision that violates provisions of law governing motor carrier transportation contracts and construction contracts is invalid
- Introduced HB634 (2023) to provide for eligibility for a severance tax exemption for production of natural gas, gas condensate, and oil from any well drilled to a depth of more than 15,000 feet
- Introduced HB419 (2022) to allow bream to be taken in minnow traps for use as recreational bait statewide and allows hand-grabbing, otherwise known as "noodling", as a legal method of taking catfish
- Introduced HB860 (2022) to provide relative to the use of certain monies in the Transportation Trust Fund by the Department of Transportation and Development
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