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Regular Session, 2011
SENATE BILL NO. 272 (Substitute of Senate Bill No. 117 by Senator MORRELL)
BY SENATOR MORRELL
JUVENILE JUSTICE. Provides relative to delinquency of a juvenile. (8/15/11)
AN ACT1
To enact Children's Code Art. 884(D) relative to the delinquency of a juvenile; to provide2
for adjudication orders, and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. Children's Code Art. 884(D) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 5
Art. 884. Adjudication order6
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D. In addition to any other use provided for in this Code, a prior8
adjudication order of delinquency, whether felony grade or misdemeanor grade,9
may be used as a predicate offense for enhancement purposes in future juvenile10
delinquency proceedings only.11
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
Present law provides for the court to declare whether the evidence warrants an adjudication
that the child is delinquent.
Proposed law retains present law and provides for the court to use a prior adjudication order
of delinquency, whether a felony or misdemeanor to be used as a predicate offense for SB NO. 272
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enhancement purposes in future juvenile delinquency proceedings.
Effective August 15, 2011.
(Adds Ch.C. Art. 884(D))