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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 371
BY REPRESENTATIVE TEMPLET
CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides with respect to postsecondary education facilities' access
to criminal records
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 15:587.2(B), relative criminal records; to provide with respect2
to access of criminal history information by postsecondary education facilities; to3
provide for the information required; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 15:587.2(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง587.2. Institutions of postsecondary education; criminal history information7
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B. When a criminal history records check is requested pursuant to9
Subsection A of this Section, the institution of postsecondary education shall be10
provided with state or national criminal history record information, or both, from the11
Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information and the Federal Bureau12
of Investigation relative to the applicant prospective employe e whose fingerprints13
have been obtained by the institution pursuant to this Section. The Bureau of14
Criminal Identification and Information shall, upon request and after receipt of15
fingerprint cards and other identifying information as required by the bureau from16
the institution, make available to the institution all prior conviction information17
contained in the bureau's criminal history record and identification files, which18
pertains to the applicant or prospective employee. any information necessary to19
specify whether or not the applicant or prospective employee has been arrested for20 HLS 10RS-582 ORIGINAL
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or convicted of, or pled nolo contendere to any criminal offense. This information1
shall include the criminal offense or offenses which he has been arrested for or2
convicted of, or to which he has pled nolo contendere, and the date or dates on which3
they occurred. In addition, when the institution of postsecondary education requests4
such criminal history record information, the bureau shall forward the fingerprints5
to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history check and make6
such arrest and conviction information available to the institution, which pertains to7
the applicant or prospective employee.8
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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)]
Templet HB No. 371
Abstract: Provides for postsecondary education facilities' access to a prospective
employee's arrest and conviction records.
Present law provides that a postsecondary education facility shall have access to a
prospective employee's conviction records.
Proposed law retains present law and provides for postsecondary education facilities' access
to any information necessary to specify whether or not the applicant or prospective employee
has been arrested for or convicted of, or pled nolo contendere to, any criminal offense.
Requires this information to include the criminal offense or offenses for which he has been
arrested or convicted, or to which he has pled nolo contendere, and the date or dates on
which they occurred.
(Amends R.S. 15:587.2(B))