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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 997
BY REPRESENTATIVE PUGH
PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS: Changes membership of the La. State Board of Private
Investigator Examiners
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 37:3504(B), relative to the Louisiana State Board of Private2
Investigator Examiners; to provide for membership; and to provide for related3
matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:3504(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง3504. Louisiana State Board of Private Investigator Examiners; creation;7
qualifications; domicile; terms of office; confirmation; oath of office;8
compensation 9
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B. The board shall be composed of seven six members appointed by the11
governor. One member shall be appointed from each of the five public service12
commission districts as established by law and shall be a resident of the district from13
which he is appointed. The governor shall appoint one licensed attorney to serve on14
the board from the state at large and one member from the state at large appointed15
from a list of names submitted by the board of directors of the Louisiana Private16
Investigators Association. Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United17
States of America, a resident of Louisiana, at least twenty-one years of age and,18
except for the attorney appointed from the state at large, shall have been actively19
engaged in the private investigator business for the previous five years, earning at20 HLS 12RS-1559 ORIGINAL
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least ninety percent of his gross income for the year preceding his appointment from1
the private investigator business. No more than two board members may be2
employed by or affiliated with the same agency. The initial board members shall not3
be required to be licensed but shall obtain a license within one hundred eighty days4
after appointment to the board. Each subsequent member shall be a licensed private5
investigator.6
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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)]
Pugh HB No. 997
Abstract: Reduces the membership of the La. State Board of Private Investigator
Examiners by removing a member at large.
Present law creates the La. State Board of Private Investigator Examiners composed of seven
members appointed by the governor as follows:
(1)One from each of the five public service commission districts.
(2)One attorney from the state at large.
(3)One from the state at large appointed from a list of names submitted by the board of
directors of the La. Private Investigators Association.
Proposed law reduces the membership of the board from seven to six by deleting the
member from the state at large appointed from a list of names submitted by the La. Private
Investigators Association.
(Amends R.S. 37:3504(B))