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Regular Session, 2013
HOUSE BILL NO. 167
BY REPRESENTATIVE CHAMPAGNE
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the type of information provided to an
institution of postsecondary education requesting criminal history information for an
applicant or prospective employee
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 15:587.2(B), relative to criminal history information; to provide2
relative to the type of information provided to an institution of postsecondary3
education requesting criminal history information for an applicant or prospective4
employee; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 15:587.2(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 7
ยง587.2. Institutions of postsecondary education; criminal history information8
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B. When a criminal history records check is requested pursuant to10
Subsection A of this Section, the institution of postsecondary education shall be11
provided with state or national criminal history record information, or both, from the12
Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information and the Federal Bureau13
of Investigation relative to the applicant prospective employee whose fingerprints14
have been obtained by the institution pursuant to this Section. The Bureau of15
Criminal Identification and Information shall, upon request and after receipt of16
fingerprint cards and other identifying information as required by the bureau from17
the institution, make available to the institution all prior arrests for any felony18
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history record and identification files, which pertains to the applicant or prospective1
employee , including convictions dismissed pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure2
Article 893 or 894. In addition, when the institution of postsecondary education3
requests such criminal history record information, the bureau shall forward the4
fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history5
check and make such conviction information available to the institution, which6
pertains to the applicant or prospective employee.7
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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)]
Champagne HB No. 167
Abstract: Provides that information concerning arrests for felony offenses and convictions
for any offenses as well as convictions dismissed pursuant to C.Cr.P. Arts. 893 and
894 shall be provided to an institution of postsecondary education that requests the
criminal history information of an applicant or prospective employee.
Present law provides that each institution of postsecondary education may require any
applicant or prospective employee to submit to a criminal history records check conducted
by the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information which shall provide the institution
of postsecondary education with state or national criminal history information, including all
conviction information contained in the bureau's criminal history record and identification
files which pertain to the applicant or prospective employee.
Proposed law adds arrests for felony offenses and convictions for all offenses including
convictions dismissed pursuant to C.Cr.P. Art. 893 or 894 to the criminal history information
that the bureau is required to provide to the institution of postsecondary education.
(Amends R.S. 15:587.2(B))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal
Justice to the original bill.
1. Required the reporting of felony arrests to institutions of postsecondary
education.