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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 489
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEGER
PROBATION: Limits the number of active probation cases of a probation officer in Orleans
Parish
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 15:571.20, relative to probation officers; to limit the number of active2
probation cases assigned to a probation officer in Orleans Parish; and to provide for3
related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 15:571.20 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง571.20. Limitation on active probation cases; Orleans Parish7
Each probation officer in Orleans Parish shall be assigned no more than8
eighty-five active cases at any point in time.9
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)]
Leger HB No. 489
Abstract: Limits the number of active probation cases which can be assigned to a probation
officer in Orleans Parish.
Proposed law limits the number of active probation cases which can be assigned to a
probation officer in Orleans Parish to 85.
(Adds R.S. 15:571.20)