From 2012 until 2020, Morris was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 14, which encompasses Ouachita and Morehouse parishes in the northeastern portion of his state.
[4] Morris won the state representative position in the general election held on November 19, 2011, when he unseated fellow Republican Sam Little, a retired farmer, originally from Bastrop in Morehouse Parish.
Four individual bills were combined into one on the advice of Shadoin's Democratic ally, Major Thibaut of New Roads.
[7] Morris said that the opponents of Shadoin's bill managed to stop the legislation on the premise that the measure "would not help the state's fiscal situation and would in fact make it worse.
The committee didn't see the benefit from a set of bills that made the state fiscal situation worse in the name of purported tax reform.