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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 220
BY REPRESENTATIVE WESLEY BISHOP
WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Amends penalty provisions for reckless discharge of a firearm
at a parade
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 14:95.2.2(D), relative to reckless discharge of a firearm at a2
parade; to increase the minimum mandatory penalties; and to provide for related3
matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 14:95.2.2(D) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:6
ยง95.2.2. Reckless discharge of a firearm at a parade or demonstration7
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D. Whoever commits the crime of reckless or negligent discharge of a9
firearm at a parade or demonstration shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard10
labor for not less than five nor more than ten years, at least three five years of the11
sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension12
of sentence and shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars.13
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DIGEST
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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)]
Wesley Bishop HB No. 220
Abstract: Increases the penalty provisions for discharging a firearm at a parade.
Present law provides for the crime of discharging a firearm at a parade.
Present law provides penalty provisions of imprisonment at hard labor for not less than five
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without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, and a fine of not more than
$5,000.
Proposed law increases the minimum mandatory sentence from three years to five years and
otherwise retains the provisions of present law.
(Amends R.S. 14:95.2.2(D))