Richard Nelson
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Position: Former State Legislator
District: House District 89
Running for:
Moon Griffon Nickname: Skipper
Parishes: St. Tammany
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Phone: 985-222-2638 call
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.nelsonforla.com
Facebook: nelsonforlouisiana
Twitter: @nelsonforla
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Party: Republican
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Notable Efforts
- Voted against HB267 (2023 Regular Session) seeking a moratorium on Carbon Capture projects in Lake Maurepas.
- 2023 - Was marked "absent", when clearly present, on the vote to override the veto of Gov. Edwards with regards to HB188 by Larry Fireman seeking to deny parole to dangerous criminals.
- 2023 - Was one of two Republicans who changed their earlier vote and voted NO to override Gov. Edwards’ veto of HB466 by Dodie Horton seeking to prevent teachers from sharing their sexual proclivities with children.
- 2023 - Was one of five Republicans who changed their earlier vote and voted NO to override Gov. Edwards’ veto of HB81 by Raymond Crew seeking to prevent teachers from secretly changing the pronouns of students.
- Publicly Supports expanding Abortion in Louisiana
- Voted against SB7 (2023) conference report - to remove erotica books from library children's sections.
- Voted AGAINST Raymond Crews’ HB81 requiring public school employees to use certain names and pronouns for students unless parents provide written permission to do otherwise. (May 8, 2023)
- Voted AGAINST HB466 (2023) to provide relative to instruction on and discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity with certain public school students
- Introduced HB12 (2023) to prohibit the promotion of certain students with reading deficiencies not remedied by the end of third grade; provides exceptions
- Introduced HB47 (2023) seeking a Constitutional Amendment to require a minimum of 25% of all nonrecurring state revenues to be applied to the Unfunded Accrued Liability (UAL) of certain state retirement systems
- Introduced HB271 (2023) to provide relative to sequestration of jurors and jury in noncapital cases, requires the jury to be sequestered during active deliberations and provides relative to the court's charge to suspend deliberations and separate without sequestration
- Introduced HB326 (2023) to require that teacher education program students receive instruction on foundational numeracy skills
- Introduced HB363 (2023) to phase-out corporate income and franchise taxes over four years, reduces the amount of exemptions, deductions, and credits that may be claimed on tax returns to reduce corporate income and franchise tax liability, and repeals the automatic reduction in the corporate franchise rate if certain revenue thresholds are met
- Introduced HB414 seeking a Constitutional Amendment to provide relative to state and local revenues derived from ad valorem taxes, sales and use taxes, income taxes, and taxes on capital; provides further for the state capital outlay budget, bonded debt, the homestead exemption, the Minimum Foundation program, local funding for the support of public education, and local funding of uncompensated health care delivered by hospitals
- Introduced HB423 (2023) to provide relative to state and local sales and use taxes, exemptions and exclusions from such taxes, levies of state sales and use taxes, items and services to which state sales and use taxes apply, and assessment of certain lands for ad valorem tax purposes.
- Introduced HB424 (2023) to phase-out individual income taxes and taxes levied on the income of estates and trusts over four years, reduces the amount of exemptions, deductions, and credits that may be claimed on tax returns to reduce income tax liability, and repeals the automatic reduction in each individual income tax rate if certain revenue thresholds are met
- Introduced HB437 (2023) to change the corporation income tax from a graduated schedule of rates dependent on the taxable income of the taxpayer to a flat rate of 5%
- Introduced HB631 (2023) to repeal the requirement that a sale be excluded from the numerator and the denominator when calculating the sales factor if the taxpayer is not taxable in a state to which a sale is assigned or if the state of assignment cannot be determined or reasonably approximated
- Introduced HB13 (2022) to increase the prescriptive period for tort actions regarding damages sustained during the operation or control of a vehicle from one year to two years
- Introduced HB129 (2022) seeking to remove the punishment requirement for any person who willfully violates his written promise to appear in court for a traffic citation
- Introduced HB214 (2022) to require passage of a reading instruction test as a condition of teacher certification in elementary education
- Introduced HB269 (2022) prohibiting promotion to the fourth grade of certain students whose reading deficiencies have not been remedied by the end of the third grade
- Introduced HB323 (2022) to create the Back on Track Louisiana Pilot Program to assist criminals being released from prison
- Introduced HB404 (2022) to provide for parole eligibility for juvenile offenders including those serving life sentences
- Introduced HB618 (2022) allowing certain patriotic organizations to access school facilities and grants their representatives the opportunity to speak to and recruit students
- Introduced HB865 (2022) to provide that schools shall not use textbooks and materials for reading instruction that employ the three cueing systems model of reading or visual memory as the primary basis for teaching word recognition
- Introduced HR178 (2022) to authorize the House Ways and Means Committee to study the state's tax structure, including state tax exemptions and credits, and to make recommendations concerning eliminating the state tax levied on individual and corporate income and reforming state tax exemptions and credits
- Supports School Choice
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