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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 35
BY REPRESENTATIVE PATRICIA SMITH
CORRECTIONS/PRISONERS: Provides with respect to eligibility for parole consideration
for certain elderly inmates
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 15:574.4(A)(4), relative to parole; to provide for eligibility for parole2
consideration for certain inmates who are at least sixty years of age and have been3
incarcerated for at least ten years; to provide for exceptions; and to provide for4
related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 15:574.4(A)(4) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง574.4. Parole; eligibility; consideration and hearings; decisions of board; nature,8
order, and conditions; rules of conduct; offenders convicted of crimes of9
violence; infectious disease testing10
A.11
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(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, unless13
eligible for parole at an earlier date, a person committed to the Department of Public14
Safety and Corrections for a term or terms of imprisonment with or without benefit15
of parole who has served at least ten years of the term or terms of imprisonment in16
actual custody shall be eligible for parole consideration upon reaching the age of17
sixty years. The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply to any inmate who has18
been convicted of a crime of violence as defined in R.S. 14:2(B) or a sex offense as19 HLS 10RS-362 ORIGINAL
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defined in R.S. 15:541, or an inmate who has been sentenced as an habitual offender1
pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 15:529.1.2
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Patricia Smith HB No. 35
Abstract: Provides for parole consideration for those inmates who have served 10 years in
prison and have reached the age of 60 years.
Proposed law provides that any person sentenced to the custody of DPS&C who has served
at least 10 years of a term of imprisonment shall be eligible for parole consideration upon
reaching the age of 60.
Proposed law shall not apply to any inmate convicted of a crime of violence or a sex offense,
or an inmate sentenced as an habitual offender.
(Adds R.S. 15:574.4(A)(4))