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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 214
BY SENATORS RISER AND MORRELL
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. Provides for the omnibus new assistant district attorney
positions for various judicial districts in the state. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 16:51(A)(5), (7), (14), (16), (19), (20), (21), (24), (29), (36), and2
(37), relative to assistant district attorneys; to provide for additional assistant district3
attorneys for certain judicial districts; to provide for an effective date; and to provide4
for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 16:51(A)(5), (7), (14), (16), (19), (20), (21), (24), (29), (36), and (37)7
are hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:8
ยง51. Assistant district attorneys9
A. The district attorney of each judicial district and of the parish of Orleans10
shall appoint a first assistant district attorney and such other assistant district11
attorneys for his respective judicial district or for the parish of Orleans as may be12
necessary, the total number of assistant district attorneys in each judicial district and13
in the parish of Orleans to be not less than as hereinafter set forth:14
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(5) In the Fifth Judicial District, six seven assistant district attorneys;16
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(7) In the Seventh Judicial District, five six assistant district attorneys;1
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(14) In the Fourteenth Judicial District, twenty-three twenty-five assistant3
district attorneys;4
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(16) In the Sixteenth Judicial District, twenty-one twenty-three assistant6
district attorneys;7
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(19) In the Nineteenth Judicial District, forty-eight fifty-three assistant9
district attorneys;10
(20) In the Twentieth Judicial District, five six assistant district attorneys;11
(21) In the Twenty-First Judicial District, eighteen twenty assistant district12
attorneys;13
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(24) In the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District, fifty-two fifty-six assistant15
district attorneys;16
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(29) In the Twenty-Ninth Judicial District, nine eleven assistant district18
attorneys;19
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(36) In the Thirty-Sixth Judicial District, four five assistant district attorneys;21
(37) In the Thirty-Seventh Judicial District, two three assistant district22
attorneys;23
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Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall become effective on August 1, 2014,25
provided that funding for the additional twenty-two assistant district attorney positions is26
appropriated and payable out of the state general fund in the general appropriations bill for27
the state of Louisiana.28 SB NO. 214
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cathy R. Wells.
DIGEST
Riser (SB 214)
Present law provides for the number of assistant district attorneys for the various judicial
districts.
Proposed law increases the number of assistant district attorneys in particular judicial
districts as follows:
(1)5
th
JDC from 6 to 7.
(2)7
th
JDC from 5 to 6.
(3)14
th
JDC from 23 to 25.
(4)16
th
JDC from 21 to 23.
(5)19
th
JDC from 48 to 53.
(6)20
th
JDC from 5 to 6.
(7)21
st
JDC from 18 to 20.
(8)24
th
JDC from 52 to 56.
(9)29
th
JDC from 9 to 11.
(10)36
th
JDC from 4 to 5.
(11)37
th
JDC from 2 to 3.
Effective on August 1, 2014, provided that funding for the additional twenty-two assistant
district attorney positions is appropriated and payable out of the state general fund in the
general appropriations bill for the state.
(Amends R.S. 16:51(A)(5), (7), (14), (16), (19), (20), (21), (24), (29), (36), and (37))