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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.
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