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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))