Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, cited a poll that showed 80% of state residents favor keeping the current permit process.
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When it became the committee was leaning toward a deferral of the bill -- rather than an outright vote for or against it -- Landry volunteered to pull it herself and said she would follow up with a study request.
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Landry told Gambit she should still have time this session to bring forward a measure that would create a task force — made up of sex workers, law enforcement and health care workers — to study the issue.
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Across a three-hour hearing, supporters said the state should not be meddling in the sexual activities of adults who engage in their behavior by choice and the change would reduce unnecessary incarceration.
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Rep. Mandie Landry of New Orleans argues that the move would allow people forced or encouraged to do something against their will, to feel safe going to police.
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“It’s not like people from Louisiana are any more dangerous than people anywhere else,” Landry explained. “There is nothing in the water that makes people in Louisiana commit more crimes.” Why then, does our state continue to lead in incarceration rates? It all comes down to the state’s faulty laws, lack of guidelines, and biased law enforcement.
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Some Democrats on the committee and speakers said the state has many unmet needs and the revenue-neutral aspect of the changes doesn’t help satisfy those needs.
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As state Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, put it, “It’s so retro — women getting together to put on makeup and do their hair. There are only 18% of us. It’s hard enough to be taken seriously in the Capitol when there are so few of us.”
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The committee voted 8-6 to reject House Bill 529 by Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans. She proposed raising the income level needed to hit the current 6% top rate from $50,000 to $450,000, then taxing the next $500,000 at 7% and taxing net income over $1 million at 8%.
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Committee members, however, rejected a different measure that would have raised taxes on people who earn at least $500,000 per year. The sponsor of House Bill 529 is state Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans.
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Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, sponsored legislation that would have required Louisiana’s millionaires to pay an additional 2% in state income taxes, but the House Ways and Means Committee rejected the millionaire tax proposal Monday, with all Democrats in favor and nearly all Republicans opposed.
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Before the Louisiana Department of Justice appears before the House Appropriations Committee today, Reps. Aimee Adatto Freeman and Mandie Landry sent a letter to the Attorney General requesting he testify personally and be prepared to answer the following questions
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The recent hit piece on Mandie Landry, sex workers, and the women of Louisiana by James Gill was nothing short of appalling.
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Landry thinks she seems alien to other lawmakers not just because of her ideas but because she is one of only 26 women in the Legislature.
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By removing criminal penalties from offenses related to consensual sex work, Representative Landry’s bill will help improve access to safer working environments for sex workers and reduce the disparate treatment by police.
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Landry, one of the few white progressive Democrats in the Legislature, is fervently pro-choice. Landry also has authored a bill for the 2021 session that would decriminalize prostitution. Her bill would help individuals who are being trafficked or encounter violence during consensual sex go to the police without the threat of being arrested.
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“We warehouse more people in prison than anywhere else, and I think it's one reason we stay impoverished here,” Landry said. “It's a waste of resources, in the sense of we're wasting money on jails, but we're also wasting our actual people.”
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“And we want to make sure that whatever ends up getting passed doesn’t hurt the average New Orleanian, you know, we have a lot of people who are living near or below the poverty line and we want to make sure those tax laws don’t hurt them,” Landry stated.
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Louisiana already has background checks for sales from retailers such as Academy, but Landry's bill would require private buyers to go through the same process, establishing a trail for guns as they pass from hand to hand.
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“A lot of it comes down to consensual behavior between adults. If something happens between two people over the age of 18, why is the government involved”, said Landry.
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