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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 685
BY SENATOR MURRAY
CRIME/PUNISHMENT. Creates the crime of out-of-state bail jumping. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 14:110.1.1, relative to jumping bail; to create the crime of out of state bail2
jumping; to provide for certain criteria; to provide for penalties; and to provide for3
related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 14:110.1.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง110.1.1. Out-of-state bail jumping7
A. Out-of-state bail jumping is the intentional failure to appear, by8
leaving the state to avoid appearing in court, at the date, time, and place as9
ordered by the court before which the defendant's case is pending. If the state10
proves notice has been given to the defendant as set forth in Code of Criminal11
Procedure Articles 322 and 344, a rebuttable presumption of notice shall apply,12
and the burden of proof shifts to the defendant to show that he did not receive13
notice.14
B. Whoever commits the crime of out of state bail jumping, when the bail15
is to assure the presence of the defendant for those cases defined as16
misdemeanors and felonies in this Title and in the Uniform Controlled17 SB NO. 685
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Dangerous Substances Law shall be fined two thousand dollars and imprisoned1
at hard labor for not less than one year nor more than three years. 2
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
Proposed law creates the crime of out-of-state bail jumping.
Proposed law defines out of state bail jumping as the intentional failure to appear, by leaving
the state to avoid appearing in court, at the date, time, and place as ordered by the court
before which the defendant's case is pending.
Proposed law provides that whoever commits the crime of jumping bail, by leaving the state
to avoid appearing in court at such time, when the bail is to assure the presence of the
defendant in court will be fined $2,000 and imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one
year nor more than three years.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 14:110.1.1)