Louisiana 2015 2015 Regular Session

Louisiana House Bill HB34 Introduced / Bill

                    HLS 15RS-437	ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 34
BY REPRESENTATIVE DOVE
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS/ASST:  Provides relative to the annual salary of certain assistant
district attorneys
1	AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 16:11(A)(2), relative to the annual salary of certain assistant
3 district attorneys; to allow for reallocation by certain district attorneys of salary
4 amounts paid to assistant district attorneys; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1.  R.S. 16:11(A)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง11.  Annual salary of assistant district attorneys payable by state
8	A.
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10	(2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 16:51(A)(19), (23), (32), and (38)
11 to the contrary, the district attorney for the parish of Orleans and the Nineteenth, and
12 Twenty-Third, and the Thirty-Second Judicial Districts may reallocate by combining
13 or dividing the total amount fixed in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection to pay the
14 salaries of any of his other assistant district attorneys in any lawful manner he deems
15 appropriate. The district attorney shall certify to the state treasurer the amount of the
16 annual salary payable upon warrant for each of his assistant district attorneys
17 provided for in R.S. 16:51(A)(19), (23), (32), and (38).
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are additions. HLS 15RS-437	ORIGINAL
HB NO. 34
DIGEST
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part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent.  [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 34 Original 2015 Regular Session	Dove
Abstract:  Adds the 32nd Judicial District to the list of judicial districts where the district
attorney may combine assistant district attorney salary warrants.
Present law provides for a minimum number of assistant district attorneys in each judicial
district and in the parish of Orleans, and further provides for a fixed total salary amount per
assistant district attorney.
Present law provides that, notwithstanding the minimum number of assistant district
attorneys permitted under present law in Orleans Parish, the 19th Judicial District, and the
23rd Judicial District, the district attorney for those districts may reallocate by combining
or dividing the fixed total amount of annual salary permitted to be paid to all assistant
district attorneys in that jurisdiction in any lawful manner the district attorney deems
appropriate.
Proposed law retains present law and adds the 32nd Judicial District to that list of judicial
districts authorized to group the salary warrants.
(Amends R.S. 16:11(A)(2))
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