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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 95
BY SENATOR MORRELL
PROBATION/PAROLE. Authorizes the division of probation and parole to access certain
information maintained by pawnbrokers. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact the introductory paragraph of R.S. 37:1798(A)(1), relative to2
information furnished to police or sheriff; requires a pawnbroker to provide all3
transactional information obtained to the Department of Public Safety and4
Corrections, division of probation and parole; to provide relative to the means for5
providing transactional information; to provide with respect to time delays for6
delivery of certain information; and to provide for related matters.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. The introductory paragraph of R.S. 37:1798(A)(1) is hereby amended and9
reenacted to read as follows:10
ยง1798. Information furnished to police or sheriff11
A. (1) Every pawnbroker shall provide all transactional information obtained12
pursuant to R.S. 37:1796 to the chief of police of the city or town in which he is13
doing business or to the sheriff of the parish in which he is doing business, and, if14
requested, to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, division of15
probation and parole, on a daily basis by the end of the next business day or on16
such less frequent basis as is required by the chief of police or sheriff. The means for17 SB NO. 95
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providing the transactional information required under this Section shall be selected1
by the chief of police or sheriff and shall be one of the following:2
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Angela L. De Jean.
DIGEST
Present law requires every pawnbroker to provide all transactional information obtained
pursuant to present law to the chief of police of the city or town in which he is doing
business or the to the sheriff of the parish in which he is doing business, on a daily basis by
the end of the next business day or on such less frequent basis as is required by the chief of
police or sheriff.
Present law provides that means for providing the transactional information required
pursuant to present law shall be selected by the chief of police or sheriff and shall be one of
the following:
(a) By electronic transmission if the pawnbroker has the means available to make
transmissions in electronic form.
(b) By placing in the United States mail.
(c) By sending a facsimile.
Present law provides that in the event transactional information is transmitted electronically
pursuant to present law, the appropriate law enforcement official may, for purposes of an
investigation of a crime relating to a particular pawn transaction, request the pawnbroker to
mail or fax such official the personally identifiable information relating to such transaction
under investigation.
Present law provides that the pawnbroker shall deliver the personally identifiable
information relating to the identified transaction to the appropriate law enforcement official
within 24 hours of the request.
Present law provides that in the event the pawnbroker transfers information in printed form
pursuant to present law, the pawnbroker shall not also be required to transmit such
information in electronic form.
Proposed law retains present law and requires a pawnbroker to provide also transactional
information obtained pursuant to present law to the Department of Public Safety and
Corrections, division of probation and parole.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 37:1798(A)(1)(intro para))