House committee advances standstill budget to prepare for future shortfalls

By: SHERIDAN WHITE and KYLAH BABIN LSU Manship School News Service BATON ROUGE – In the first step by the Legislature to transform Gov. Jeff Landry’s proposed budget into its own, the House Appropriations Committee unanimously advanced House Bill 1 Monday that generally tracks his plan for a standstill state operating budget of $47 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1. The bill, wh…