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Champagne (HB 259) Act No. 326
Existing 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.
New law adds arrests for any aggravated offense or any sexual offense against a victim who
is a minor as defined by existing law (R.S. 15:541) to the types of criminal history records
that must be made available to institutions of postsecondary education.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 15:587.2(B))