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BATON ROUGE, La. - Gov. Bobby Jindal (pictured) on July 7 vetoed a bill that would have established four new state funds, even though he had signed legislation into law last week that allowed those funds to be created.
The funds were created June 30, though without money allocated to them, when Jindal signed financing legislation. If they ever get a source of cash, the funds are intended to help fight autism and childhood obesity, and pay for public school repairs and higher education technology research.
Jindal said in a written statement that he vetoed the bill by Rep. Patrick Williams, D-Shreveport, because provisions in the measure were dependent on bills that didn't get through the Legislature-a reference to a proposed cigarette tax increase that failed in the House.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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