HOW TO USE THE 2017 LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE WEBSITE
AND ASSOCIATED NOTIFICATIONS
Notifications
- Signing up for alerts and updates
http://louisiana.gov/Services/Email_Notifications/
Meetings can be added to your calendar straight from the email notice. Simply hover the cursor over the meeting date link in the email notification. Select "Add to Calendar".
- Committee Meetings http://louisiana.gov/Services/Email_Notifications_Legislative/
- Executive Order Notifications http://louisiana.gov/Services/Email_Notifications_EO/
- Louisiana Register Notifications http://louisiana.gov/Services/Email_Notifications_Register/
Navigating the LA Legislative Website http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Home.aspx
House
Next session date and time
Order of the Day (Agenda)
Senate
Next session date and time
Daily Digest (Agenda)
Committees
Schedules
Agendas
Members
Pre-filed bills
- Find your legislators http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/FindMyLegislators.aspx
- Look up laws https://legis.la.gov/legis/LawSearch.aspx
- Session information https://legis.la.gov/Legis/SessionInfo/SessionInfo_161ES.aspx
- House information http://house.louisiana.gov/
- Senate information http://senate.la.gov/
- Look up Legislator’s information
- Representatives https://legis.la.gov/legis/Bios.aspx?cid=H
- Caucuses and Delegations https://legis.la.gov/legis/Caucuses.aspx
- Using My Legis
- Log in/Set up account https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/NewUser.aspx
- Types of searches
- Search text by using (single word) or (“phrase”) or (word + word) or (partial/root word)
- To add bills to watch list simply click on the eyeball icon at the top right side of the bill’s description page.
- House Journal http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Video/2016/May2016.aspx
- Senate Journal http://senate.la.gov/video/
You can easily watch the House, Senate or any Committee live when in session (click on video camera icon) https://legis.la.gov/Legis/Home.aspx