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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 462
BY SENATORS AMEDEE AND BROWN
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Delays licensure requirement for juvenile dentention
facilities. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 15:1110(E), relative to juvenile detention centers; to provide2
relative to the effective date for required license; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 15:1110(E) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 5
ยง1110. Detention standards; licensing6
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E. On or before January July 1, 2013, all juvenile detention facilities,8
including facilities owned or operated by any governmental, profit, nonprofit,9
private, or public agency, shall be licensed pursuant to the provisions of Subsection10
C of this Section.11
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Dawn Romero Watson.
DIGEST
Amedee (SB 462)
Present law requires that, on or before January 1, 2013, all juvenile detention facilities are
to be licensed pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Department of Children and
Family Services. SB NO. 462
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Present emergency rules provide extensive licensure requirements and penalties for persons
who operate a juvenile detention facility without a valid license after January 1, 2013.
Proposed law changes the date on which licensure is required from January 1, 2013 to July
1, 2013.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 15:1110(E))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary B to the
original bill.
1. Changes from making an exception to the licensure deadline for the St.
James Parish Youth Center to moving the licensure deadline for all facilities
to July 1, 2013.