RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 17 (HB 470) 2015 Regular Session Miguez
Prior law required the clerk for the 16th JDC to collect additional fees as determined by the
judges sitting en banc, not to exceed $15 from every person filing any type of civil suit or
proceeding and a fee not to exceed $5 against every defendant who is convicted after trial or
after he pleads guilty or who forfeits bond.
New law retains prior law but increases the fee limits from $15 to $35 in the civil cases and
from $5 to $25 in all criminal cases.
Effective August 1, 2015.
(Amends R.S. 13:996.37(A))