Champagne (HB 167) Act No. 133
Existing 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.
New 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.
Effective August 1, 2013.
(Amends R.S. 15:587.2(B))