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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Benefits for the families of Louisiana National Guard soldiers who died while on active duty will be made retroactive to Sept. 11, 2001, to pick up 32 families who aren't able to get the lump sum payments under current law.

Existing law provides $250,000 checks for relatives of guard members who die while on active duty and $100,000 for permanently disabled guard members. To qualify, the death or disability must have occurred between July 2007 and the present.

Lawmakers say they left out families they had intended to include, so the compensation clock will be shifted back to 2001 under the bill (House Bill 143) given final legislative passage with a 91-1 House vote.

The proposal will cost the state $8 million. Gov. Bobby Jindal supports the spending plan.

The benefits apply only to Louisiana National Guard members and their relatives, not to members of the U.S. Army or other military branches.

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An annual budget to finance the operations of many state courts, including the Louisiana Supreme Court, has won final legislative approval.

The judicial budget for the new year that begins July 1 will grow by nearly $5 million to $159 million, an increase about half of what the Supreme Court justices requested of lawmakers to cover mandated increases in retirement and health care costs, to pay for annual "merit raises" that have been scrapped in other agencies and to expand drug courts.

While House members balked at any increase, senators added the new money into the bill. The courts received $154 million in the current fiscal year.

The House gave final passage to the spending plan with a 98-0 vote Tuesday, sending it to Gov. Bobby Jindal. The bill (House Bill 608) will pay for the Louisiana Supreme Court, appellate courts, drug courts and some district court expenses. State district courts mainly get their financing through fines, fees and other self-generated money.

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In other legislative action:

State prisoners will be barred from establishing a Facebook account or using any other social networking sites, under a measure that received final passage with a unanimous Senate vote Tuesday. The bill (Senate Bill 182) by Sen. Francis Thompson, D-Delhi, heads to the governor's desk. Those who violate the law will face up to 30 additional days in prison and a fine up to $500.

The Department of Education will be reorganized in a structure created by former Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek, under legislation given final passage Tuesday by the Senate. The measure (Senate Bill 80) heads next to the governor's desk. It will create a greater focus on literacy, science and technology training, and college and career readiness.

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I have gone through the procedure and trust me it is easier than filling out your own tax return or for that matter I-765. All it needs is very basic information about the employer. Moreover when the DOL audits the employer on the basis of a complaint they don't give out the name of the person filing the complaint. They go to the employer's place of employment and tell him to show all the records for all the employees for the last five (I guess) years and if they determine abuse then everybody who was not paid gets his wages. I was on L2 here and went to India for H1 stamping. I have EAD and AP thru my spouse AOS sponsorship. Since I want to retain my H1 status I went for H1 stamping. No questions related to job..more about my spouse AOS..officer told me visa is granted and it is almost 1 week and no change in passport status on vfs site. I am bit worried..i will call consulate tonight.. If all the articles about reverse brain drain we are reading about is true they would do something to solve this GC situation. Otherwise the anti-immigrants will come to see us off while we depart this country and never to return back as H1B's trying to get GC's and live here. This will go into history, 30yrs from now and our grandchildren will read about it. And may be we will get some special pension at our home countries for returning back and helping it to do better. I don't want to discourage you... but sorry i have to say this :D... I really hope you set an example by going back, but your blatantly obvious lack of intellectual acuity will not result in any brain drain... so the net result of you going back would be a simple one i.e one less in the line for GC ;) (not sure if you have dependents - actually not sure if you are waiting for GC) As Pappu mentioned, the $ 64,000 figure is not a typo. That indeed is the money that was spent by him individually. Logiclife and others made trips to DC,air travel, hotel etc.. does add up real fast. All the expenses on these travels have been borne by the individuals and have not been reimbursed. More than 99 % of the IV funds has been used for advocacy efforts and getting council.

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