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Moore files bill to repeal old slave law called “Vagrancy”

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Free PressBreaking News

Rep. Pat Moore has pre-filed a bill that will repeal the last of the state’s “slave” laws, the crime of vagrancy. Moore filed HB 137 which seeks to entirely repeal the law. The vagrancy law in Louisiana was passed after…

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