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===Anti-littering campaign===
===Anti-littering campaign===
In April 2017, the House Education Committee approved legislation introduced by Representative Bishop, to require public schools to add [[litter]] prevention and awareness instruction for pupils in [[kindergarten]] to the fifth grade. "I grew up on Bayou Teche, and it's filthy; I live half a mile from the Vermilion River, and it's filthy. It's a travesty what we are doing to our state. I'm tired of seeing cans and bottles floating down our bayous," Bishop said in plugging for his bill.<ref name=litterlaw/> A few weeks earlier, then state parks director Robert Jocelyn Barham, a former state senator from Morehouse Parish, in testimony before a House committee termed Louisiana "the trashiest state in the nation. We should hang our heads in shame when [[Arkansas]] and [[Mississippi]] are cleaner than Louisiana."<ref name=litterlaw>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2017/04/28/trashiest-state-lawmaker-believes-kids-can-change-las-litter-culture/101018884/|title=Trashiest state? Lawmaker believes kids can change La.'s litter culture|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|date=April 28, 2017|accessdate=May 1, 2017; no longer on-line}}</ref>
In April 2017, the House Education Committee approved legislation introduced by Representative Bishop, to require public schools to add litter prevention and awareness instruction for pupils in [[kindergarten]] to the fifth grade. "I grew up on Bayou Teche, and it's filthy; I live half a mile from the Vermilion River, and it's filthy. It's a travesty what we are doing to our state. I'm tired of seeing cans and bottles floating down our bayous," Bishop said in plugging for his bill.<ref name=litterlaw/> A few weeks earlier, then state parks director Robert Jocelyn Barham, a former state senator from Morehouse Parish, in testimony before a House committee termed Louisiana "the trashiest state in the nation. We should hang our heads in shame when [[Arkansas]] and [[Mississippi]] are cleaner than Louisiana."<ref name=litterlaw>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2017/04/28/trashiest-state-lawmaker-believes-kids-can-change-las-litter-culture/101018884/|title=Trashiest state? Lawmaker believes kids can change La.'s litter culture|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|date=April 28, 2017|accessdate=May 1, 2017; no longer on-line}}</ref>
===Fistfight with colleague===
===Fistfight with colleague===
On May 15, 2018, Bishop and then state Senator Norby Chabert, a Democrat-turned-Republican from Houma in Terrebonne Parish engaged in a fistfight over legislative disagreement at the River Room in Baton Rouge. The two apologized for attacking each other.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2018/05/16/lawmakers-come-blows-b-r-bar/615455002/|title=Lawmakers come to blows|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=May 16, 2018|accessdate=January 31, 2020}}</ref>
On May 15, 2018, Bishop and then state Senator Norby Chabert, a Democrat-turned-Republican from Houma in Terrebonne Parish engaged in a fistfight over legislative disagreement at the River Room in Baton Rouge. The two apologized for attacking each other.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2018/05/16/lawmakers-come-blows-b-r-bar/615455002/|title=Lawmakers come to blows|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=May 16, 2018|accessdate=January 31, 2020}}</ref>