#DEFINE SESSION VETO FULL#

To read The Advocate's full story with all the details, click here. 'However, HB 648 is so blatantly defective on so many levels that brevity is impossible.' 'I have never issued a veto message with the degree of detail that I am providing here,' he added. 'This bill is entitled the 'Stop Harming our Kids Act,' which is ironic because this is precisely what it does,' the governor wrote in a six-page letter explaining his veto of the transgender health care ban.

He made those vetoes official on Friday, calling the bills an attack on some of the state's most vulnerable children, The Advocate reports. He also pledged to reject a bill to limit the use of alternate pronouns in schools and another that would outlaw gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, the newspaper reports. Our media partners at The Advocate report that his vetoes of three bills targeting LGBTQ+ people has the effect of 'raising the odds that lawmakers will return to Baton Rouge in the coming weeks to try to overturn those vetoes, legislative leaders say.'Įdwards promised at the end of the latest legislative session that he would veto a bill that seeks to ban discussion of gender and sexual identity in K-12 school classrooms. Below that, you'll find the list of bills he vetoed, with a link to each veto letter. You can find a list of the final bills he signed, along with links to the text and other details, below. John Bel Edwards announced that he has completed taking action on bills from the 2023 Regular Legislative Session.

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