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BATON ROUGE, La. - A bill to provide relief dollars to the logging industry in Louisiana is headed to the House floor.
House Bill 642 would create the Louisiana Loggers Relief Program to issue a total of $10 million in grants for timber harvesting and timber-hauling businesses.Â
Rep. Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, authored the bill along with co-sponsors Sen. Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, and Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma.
The House Committee on Appropriations unanimously approved the bill on Monday and could be heard on the House floor as early as Thursday.
âThese businesses hadnât been included in any of the federal agriculture relief programs that other farmers and agriculture producers had been able to utilize,â Zeringue said.
Sydney McGovern
LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE A bill to provide relief dollars to the logging industry in Louisiana is headed to the House floor.
House Bill 642 would create the Louisiana Loggers Relief Program to issue a total of $10 million in grants for timber harvesting and timber-hauling businesses.
Rep. Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, authored the bill along with co-sponsors Sen. Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, and Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma.
The House Committee on Appropriations unanimously approved the bill on Monday and could be heard on the House floor as early as Thursday.
“These businesses hadn’t been included in any of the federal agriculture relief programs that other farmers and agriculture producers had been able to utilize,” Zeringue said.