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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 44
BY SENATOR MURRAY
EMPLOYMENT. Provides elements of conspiracy to violate the Louisiana Employment
Discrimination Law. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 23:304, relative to employment discrimination; to provide for elements of2
conspiracy to violate the Louisiana Employment Discrimination Law; to provide for3
retroactive effect; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 23:304 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง304. Conspiracy to violate Louisiana Employment Discrimination Law7
No person shall conspire to accomplish any of the following:8
(1) Retaliation or discrimination in any manner against a person9
because he has opposed a practice declared unlawful by this Chapter, or10
because he has made a charge, filed a complaint, testified, assisted, or11
participated in any manner in any investigation, proceeding, or hearing under12
this Chapter.13
(2) Aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce a person to engage in any of the14
acts or practices declared unlawful by this Chapter.15
(3) Obstruction or prevention of a person from complying with the16
provisions of this Chapter or any order issued thereunder.17 SB NO. 44
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Section 2. This Act shall have retroactive effect, as well as prospective effect,1
beginning on its effective date.2
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
Present law provides no prohibition regarding conspiracy to violate the Louisiana
Employment Discrimination Law.
Proposed law provides that no person shall conspire to do any of the following:
(1)Retaliate or discriminate against any person because he has participated in any
manner in any investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this Chapter.
(2)Aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce a person to violate this Chapter.
(3)Obstruct or prevent anyone from complying with the provisions of this Chapter.
Provides that the provisions of the Act are to have retroactive effect and prospective effect
from the effective date.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 23:304)