HLS 12RS-239 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 313
BY REPRESENTATIVE JAMES
LEGISLATIVE AGCY/LAW INST: Provides relative to the council of the La. State Law
Institute
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 24:202(A)(23), relative to the council of the Louisiana State Law Institute; to2
provide for the membership of the council; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 24:202(A)(23) is hereby enacted to read as follows:5
ยง202. Council; membership; terms; vacancies6
A. The governing body of the Louisiana State Law Institute shall be a7
council composed of ex officio members and elected members. The ex officio8
members shall be:9
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(23) Two judges who are members of the Louisiana Council of Juvenile and11
Family Court Judges appointed by the president of the Louisiana Council of Juvenile12
and Family Court Judges or their designees. One of the judges shall be a judge of13
a court having exclusive family or family and juvenile jurisdiction, and the other14
shall be a judge of a court having exclusive juvenile or family and juvenile15
jurisdiction.16
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HB NO. 313
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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)]
James HB No. 313
Abstract: Provides that the president of the La. Council of Juvenile and Family Court
Judges appoints two judges from that council to the council of the La. State Law
Institute.
Present law provides for the La. State Law Institute as an official advisory law revision
commission, law reform agency, and legal research agency of the state of La. Provides that
the governing body of the La. State Law Institute is a council composed of elected members
and members who hold certain offices and who are appointed by certain persons. Proposed
law retains present law.
Proposed law adds two judges to the council. Provides that the additional judges shall be
members of the La. Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges appointed by the La.
Judicial Council of the National Bar Association, one of whom shall be a judge of a court
having exclusive family or family and juvenile jurisdiction, and the other a judge of a court
having exclusive juvenile or juvenile and family jurisdiction.
(Adds R.S. 24:202(A)(23))