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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 employe e 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 sex offense18
as defined in R.S. 15:541 or any crime of violence as defined in R.S. 14:2 and19
conviction information for any offense contained in the bureau's criminal history20
record and identification files, which pertains to the applicant or prospective21 HLS 13RS-749 REENGROSSED
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employee , including convictions dismissed pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure1
Article 893 or 894. In addition, when the institution of postsecondary education2
requests such criminal history record information, the bureau shall forward the3
fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history4
check and make such conviction information available to the institution, which5
pertains to the applicant or prospective employee.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)]
Champagne HB No. 167
Abstract: Provides that information concerning prior arrests for sex offenses and crimes
of violence as well as convictions dismissed pursuant to C.C.P. Art. 893 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 prior arrests for sex offenses or crimes of violence and 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.
House Floor Amendments to the engrossed bill.
1. Changed reporting of felony arrests to arrests for sex offenses and crimes of
violence.