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FY 2024 Per Diem Rates for Louisiana

Daily lodging rates (excluding taxes) | october 2023 - september 2024.

Cities not appearing below may be located within a county for which rates are listed. To determine the county a destination is located in, visit the Census Geocoder .

Meals & Incidentals (M&IE) rates and breakdown Footnotes

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Breakfast, lunch, dinner, incidentals - Separate amounts for meals and incidentals. M&IE Total = Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner + Incidentals. Sometimes meal amounts must be deducted from trip voucher. See More Information

First & last day of travel - amount received on the first and last day of travel and equals 75% of total M&IE.

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Traveler reimbursement is based on the location of the work activities and not the accommodations, unless lodging is not available at the work activity, then the agency may authorize the rate where lodging is obtained.

Unless otherwise specified, the per diem locality is defined as "all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city, including independent entities located within those boundaries."

Per diem localities with county definitions shall include "all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city as well as the boundaries of the listed counties, including independent entities located within the boundaries of the key city and the listed counties (unless otherwise listed separately)."

When a military installation or Government-related facility (whether or not specifically named) is located partially within more than one city or county boundary, the applicable per diem rate for the entire installation or facility is the higher of the rates which apply to the cities and/or counties, even though part(s) of such activities may be located outside the defined per diem locality.

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The separate amounts for breakfast, lunch and dinner listed in the chart are provided should you need to deduct any of those meals from your trip voucher. For example, if your trip includes meals that are already paid for by the government (such as through a registration fee for a conference), you will need to deduct those meals from your voucher. Refer to Section 301-11.18 of the Federal Travel Regulation for specific guidance on deducting these amounts from your per diem reimbursement claims for meals furnished to you by the government. Other organizations may have different rules that apply for their employees; please check with your organization for more assistance.

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This column lists the amount federal employees receive for the first and last calendar day of travel. The first and last calendar day of travel is calculated at 75 percent.

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Louisiana ranked No. 2 in US for STI rate, No. 1 for chlamidyia rate

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - New research shows that sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in Louisiana.

The CDC ranks Louisiana seventh in the U.S. for cases of congenital syphilis , number three for gonorrhea and No. 1 for chlamydia cases.

Overall, the Bayou State sits at No. 2 for the highest STI rate in the country.

To put it in perspective, per 100,000 people, more than 1,200 have been diagnosed with one or more sexually transmitted infections.

“At Access, we see gonorrhea, chlamydia testing every single day. It’s actually way more frequent than most people actually realize,” Access Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Samantha Marceaux said.

Marceaux and her team have treated thousands of patients for these infections.

“Two to five per day, we’re open seven days a week. I mean, it’s a pretty significant number, especially for how small Southwest Louisiana is,” Marceaux said.

Marceaux believes one of the main reasons Louisiana has continued to climb the ranks is due to the lack of education like in other states such as Vermont, which has the lowest rate of STIs.

“I think you know some people just truly understand STDs. I think we take maybe the lack of education for granted. I think, you know, that education should start in school-age kids because kids are having sex at a very young age right now, and I don’t think they’re mature enough to do so,” Marceaux said.

Some of the symptoms aligned with these infections are visible or physical, but that’s not always the case.

“You can be completely asymptomatic and not necessarily know that you have it,” Marceaux said.

Medical professionals said don’t let the stigma around these issues prevent you from treating them.

“You can get very serious, very serious infections, you know, women or men, from sexually transmitted diseases, so it’s definitely something that you want to treat as soon as you have those initial symptoms or as soon as you know about the exposure,” Marceaux said.

These infections are mostly preventable with the appropriate measures. Untreated STIs can lead to complications that may be deadly.

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Louisiana House passes budget with uncertainty on how much pay teachers will receive

The Louisiana House of Representatives approved a cut to public school teacher compensation in the state's overall budget plan Thursday. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

The Louisiana House of Representatives voted to approve a nearly $48 billion state budget plan Thursday that cuts public school teacher compensation, even after several legislators vowed to make the educators’ previous pay hike permanent this year . The plan also does not specify that the teacher stipend funding needs to be distributed evenly to all public school teachers, as it has been in the past. School districts would have the flexibility to decide whether to give some teachers more money than others within their own systems, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jack McFarland, R-Jonesboro, said. McFarland, who oversees the House budget-writing process, said Gov. Jeff Landry did not want the school districts to be locked into a system where the teacher stipend had to be given out evenly. 

House budget leaders also aid they have to try to control costs, including teacher compensation, in light of a $558 million budget shortfall expected next year. An automatic sales tax cut is scheduled for 2025, which will leave the state permanently short on money. 

Outside of teacher pay, the House budget plan also takes away 2,000 early childhood education slots after July 1 and does not raise reimbursement rates for Medicaid childbirths or offer more doula funding , even though experts suggested those measures might bring down Louisiana’s high rate of maternal mortality.

Instead, the budget plan expands funding for public safety, giving $52 million more to the prison system and $22 million more to the state agency that oversees Louisiana State Police. Some of this money would go toward creating a new state police troop in New Orleans.

Anti-abortion pregnancy resource centers would also see a sharp increase in public funding, from $1 million in federal funding this year to $3 million in state funding next year.

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Lawmakers have also prioritized a targeted tutoring program for elementary school students ($30 million) and publicly funded roof fortification grants ($15 million). The latter initiative is aimed at easing Louisiana’s homeowners property insurance crisis.  

The House version of the budget also includes over $40 million in pet projects , which are state grants to local parks, sheriffs, religious institutions and nonprofits legislators pick in secret. These programs are funded, even though they don’t reflect the state’s budget priorities. Funding for domestic violence shelters ($7 million) and a federal summer food program for low-income children ($3.7 million) was also restored in the House after being dropped by the governor.

But Landry’s rejection of the summer food program earlier this year might mean families won’t see the summer food relief during the actual summer. Department of Children and Family Services Secretary David Matlock said Louisiana’s delay in participating in the program will mean that food assistance might not reach families until next year.  News of a potential delay to the summer food program for several months angered legislators. McFarland called it “hogwash” and said he would make every effort to get the program up and running for this year’s summer instead.

In response to criticism over the past three days, the House also lessened an initial teacher pay reduction proposed in a budget plan released earlier this week . Representatives shifted $39 million more into a teacher stipend to backfill their original cut, though they did not fully restore the amount originally proposed.

If money for teacher and school support staff stipends was distributed evenly to teachers across the board, it would mean teachers would get an almost $1,700 stipend next academic year – less than the $2,000 they received this year. Public K-12 school support staff, who received a $1,000 stipend this year, would also receive less money as a result of the cut.

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But the House budget proposal doesn’t call for the $166 million for teacher and school support staff stipends to be distributed evenly. Its members voted for a plan that would allow school districts to give different teachers in their systems different amounts of money, McFarland said. Unlike the current academic year, teachers would receive next school year’s stipends by Dec. 15, 2024. Some teachers are still waiting on their $2,000 stipend for the 2023-24 school year because school districts were given until May 1 to give out the extra money. On top of the $166 million in stipend funding, lawmakers voted to put an extra $25 million toward differential pay for teachers. This money is supposed to go toward higher pay for educators in hard-to-fill positions such as high school science and math courses, K-12 special education classes and those in low-income schools. 

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