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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 248
BY REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD
CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides with respect to the Lafourche Parish Pretrial Home
Incarceration Program
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 15:571.35.1(C)(2)(e), relative to the Lafourche Parish Pretrial2
Home Incarceration Program; to authorize the earning of credit for time served3
participating in the program under certain conditions; and to provide for related4
matters. 5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 15:571.35.1(C)(2)(e) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as7
follows:8
ยง571.35.1. Pilot program; Lafourche Parish Pretrial Home Incarceration Program;9
electronic monitoring10
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C.12
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(2) Such rules and regulations shall include but not be limited to the14
following:15
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(e) The defendant shall not receive credit for time served while participating17
in the pilot program. Notwithstanding the provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure18
Article 880, the defendant may receive credit for time served while participating in19
the pilot program only with the approval of the sentencing court.20
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
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)]
Richard HB No. 248
Abstract: Provides that a defendant may receive credit for participation in the Lafourche
Parish Pretrial Home Incarceration Program only with approval of the sentencing
court.
Present law authorizes the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office to implement a pilot program
using, as an alternative mode of incarceration to traditional imprisonment, active electronic
monitoring of certain offenders who have not been convicted of crimes of violence or sex
offenses.
Present law further provides that the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office shall develop criteria
for participation in the program.
Proposed law retains these provisions of present law.
Present law provides that the defendant shall not receive credit for time served while
participating in the pilot program.
Proposed law changes present law to provide that the defendant may receive credit for time
served while participating in the pilot program only with the approval of the sentencing
court.
(Amends R.S. 15:571.35.1(C)(2)(e))