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ACT No. 133
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.
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 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
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Article 893 or 894. In addition, when the institution of postsecondary education1
requests such criminal history record information, the bureau shall forward the2
fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history3
check and make such conviction information available to the institution, which4
pertains to the applicant or prospective employee.5
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: