Louisiana Senate president supports session to override veto on transgender sports ban
Republican Senate President Page Cortez said he favors a Legislative Session to override Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls sports teams.
Cortez' support for a veto override session makes it almost inevitable since Republican House Speaker Clay Schexnayder of Gonzales has already called for lawmakers to return to the Capitol in Baton Rouge.
It would be the first veto override session since the new Louisiana Constitution was ratified in 1974.
Edwards announced his veto of Senate Bill 156 by Republican Franklinton Sen. Beth Mizell last week, saying it fosters discrimination against some of the state's "most vulnerable" children, though the veto hasn't officially reached the Senate.
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(Monroe News Star)
