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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 621
BY SENATOR MARTINY
PROBATION/PAROLE. Provides for parole eligibility. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 15:574.4(A)(4), relative to parole eligibility; to provide for eligibility for2
parole consideration for certain offenders sentenced as a habitual offender; and to3
provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 15:574.4(A)(4) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง574.4. Parole; eligibility; consideration and hearings; decisions of board; nature,7
order, and conditions; rules of conduct; offenders convicted of crimes8
of violence; infectious disease testing9
A. * * *10
(4) A person who is imprisoned for the remainder of his natural life,11
without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence pursuant to R.S.12
15:529.1 shall be eligible for parole consideration upon serving at least fifteen13
years of the life sentence in actual custody and upon reaching the age of forty-14
five.15
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michelle Ducharme.
DIGEST
Present law provides for eligibility for parole consideration for certain offenders.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that a person who is imprisoned for the
remainder of his natural life, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence
pursuant to the Habitual Offender Law shall be eligible for parole consideration upon
serving at least 15 years of the life sentence in actual custody and upon reaching the age of
45.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 15:574.4(A)(4))