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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 259
BY REPRESENTATIVE CHAMPAGNE
CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to arrest records provided to institutions of
postsecondary education requesting criminal history information on a prospective
employee
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 15:587.2(B), relative to criminal history information; to provide2
relative to criminal history records requested by institutions of postsecondary3
education; to provide relative to the type of arrest records provided to institutions of4
postsecondary education; 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 offense,18
aggravated offense, or any sexual offense against a victim who is a minor as defined19 HLS 14RS-993 ORIGINAL
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in R.S. 15:541 or any crime of violence as defined enumerated in R.S. 14:2(B) and1
conviction information for any offense contained in the bureau's criminal history2
record and identification files, which pertains to the applicant or prospective3
employee, including convictions dismissed pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure4
Article 893 or 894. In addition, when the institution of postsecondary education5
requests such criminal history record information, the bureau shall forward the6
fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history7
check and make such conviction information available to the institution, which8
pertains to the applicant or prospective employee.9
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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. 259
Abstract: Provides relative to the types of arrest records provided to institutions of
postsecondary education requesting criminal history information on an applicant or
prospective employee.
Present law provides that when an institution of postsecondary education requests a criminal
history records check on an applicant prospective employee, the Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Information shall make available to the institution all prior arrests for any
sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541 or any crime of violence as defined in R.S. 14:2.
Proposed law adds arrests for any aggravated offense or any sexual offense against a victim
who is a minor as defined by present law (R.S. 15:541) to the types of criminal history
records that are to be provided to institutions of postsecondary education.
(Amends R.S. 15:587.2(B))