Jindal backing cycle helmet repeal law

Louisiana should get rid of its law requiring adult motorcyclists to wear helmets, a House committee voted Tuesday, after hearing that Gov. Bobby Jindal supports the repeal.

The House Transportation Committee passed without objection Rep. Jim Morris' bill after hearing testimony from the governor's top lawyer, executive counsel Jimmy Faircloth, that the Jindal administration considers helmet use a choice that adults should be allowed to make for themselves.

Earlier Tuesday, Jindal told reporters that government should let people make such decisions.

"I would certainly recommend people wear a helmet. If I rode a motorcycle, I would certainly wear a helmet. I also feel it's important that people have a right, that adults have a right to make choices for themselves," Jindal said.

"I think we want to be very careful about the slippery slope to a nanny state."

No one spoke in opposition to the measure by Morris, R-Shreveport, which moves next to the House floor. Morris said he expects other lawmakers to propose floor amendments that would require bikers to have a minimum level of health insurance if they chose to forego helmets.

The Senate's health committee blocked a similar proposal last year.

On the Internet: House Bill 639 can be viewed at http://legis.state.la.us/

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Deaths reported in Terrebonne boating accident

HOUMA, La. (AP) - Authorities in Terrebonne Parish are investigating a fatal boating accident.


The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries say its agents have confirmed three deaths and are investigating reports that a fourth person is unaccounted for.


The accident happened Thursday morning on the Falgout canal. Thomas Gresham, a spokesman for Wildlife and Fisheries, says the type of boat involved has not been confirmed.

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3 Baton Rouge men killed in boating accident

NEW ROADS — State and parish authorities today are searching for the bodies of three Baton Rouge men in a boating accident late Saturday on False River.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officials said Sterling Forbes, 22, Christopher W. Austin, 20, and Brian Doherty, 21, were killed in the collision.

A fourth man in the boat with the men, Brian Lummen, 21, also of Baton Rouge, survived, said Col. Winton Vidrine of the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Four people in the second boat, Jerry Jordan, 53, and his wife, Brenda, 50, of Lafayette, and Tommy Doucet, 52 and his wife, Marlene, 52 of Oakdale, also survived, authorities said.

Tommy Doucet was critically injured in the accident and taken to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, said Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Capt. Steve Juge.Family members of the victims were on the scene.

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