Back when Gov. Jeff Landry opened the legislative session in March, I started thinking of the 2026 session as the “year of the inspection sticker.” That the governor used his big speech to promote eliminating the pesky but hardly consequential mandate seemed, at the time, a signal that this would be a low-temperature session, certainly compared to Landry’s action-packed first two years in office.
Hardly.
In fact, much of what the Legislature did in Baton Rouge was high stakes, often unanticipated and in some cases truly shocking…