House Speaker Clay Schexnayder (R)
All eyes are on the state capitol as Louisiana lawmakers convene for the first veto session since the state’s new constitution was adopted in 1974. Republican House Speaker Clay Schexnayder said he has no doubts the bill to protect women’s sports from transgender athletes will be overridden in the House.
“I feel comfortable, 100% on the women’s protection act bill,” said Schexnayder.
The transgender legislation is one of 28 that Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed. The other high-profile bill that legislators are expected to address is constitutional carry. Schexnayder said the process of an override session is not a familiar one, but he expects the process to be expedient.
“Time frame wise of course we’ll go in a 12, we’ll read all the bills in, and then we’ll see where the body wants to go as far as, do we want to take up more bills today. Which if we did, we’d have to take up a two-thirds majority vote to do that,” said Schexnayder.
Lawmakers are targeting to override the vetoes of the concealed carry and transgender athletes bills. Schexnayder said he’s heard from lawmakers on a few other pieces of vetoed legislation.
“One was an elections bill, one was a vaccine bill, that was the two that I’ve had conversations with, but it wasn’t a whole lot of members that had reached out to me about them,” said Schexnayder.
Schexnayder said the vetoed bills will be brought up in the chamber where it originated by its author and if it receives a majority vote, it will go to the floor. Then if it has two-thirds majority support it goes to the opposite chamber for a vote.
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