State Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter deferred his call for voters to consider a constitutional amendment to increase property tax exemptions. (Photo by Avery White / LSU Manship School News Service) BATON ROUGE — An amendment that would allow parishes to increase the homestead exemption failed 9-5 in a House committee hearing Tuesday while a Senate committee heard but deferred two similar homestead-exemption amendments. The House Ways and Means Committee did not advance House Bill 440, which would...