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ACT No. 326
Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 259
BY REPRESENTATIVE CHAMPAGNE
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
in R.S. 15:541 or any crime of violence as defined enumerated in R.S. 14:2(B) and20
conviction information for any offense contained in the bureau's criminal history21
record and identification files, which pertains to the applicant or prospective22
employee, including convictions dismissed pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure23
Article 893 or 894. In addition, when the institution of postsecondary education24 ENROLLEDHB NO. 259
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requests such criminal history record information, the bureau shall forward the1
fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history2
check and make such conviction information available to the institution, which3
pertains to the applicant or prospective employee.4
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: