HLS 16RS-402 ENGROSSED
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 42
BY REPRESENTATIVES DWIGHT AND NORTON
CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for time limitations for prosecution of video
voyeurism
1 AN ACT
2To enact Code of Criminal Procedure Article 573.2, relative to time limitations for initiating
3 prosecutions; to provide relative to time limitations in which to institute prosecution
4 for the crime of video voyeurism; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. Code of Criminal Procedure Article 573.2 is hereby enacted to read as
7follows:
8 Art. 573.2. Running of time limitations; exception; video voyeurism
9 The time limitations established by Article 572 of this Code shall not
10 commence to run as to the crime of video voyeurism (R.S. 14:283) until the crime
11 is discovered by the victim.
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 42 Engrossed 2016 Regular Session Dwight
Abstract: Provides that the time limitations for prosecution of video voyeurism shall not
begin to run until the crime is discovered by the victim.
Present law provides that no person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for an offense not
punishable by death or life imprisonment, unless the prosecution is instituted within the
following periods of time after the offense has been committed:
(1)Six years, for a felony necessarily punishable by imprisonment at hard labor.
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(2)Four years, for a felony not necessarily punishable by imprisonment at hard labor.
(3)Two years, for a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or both.
(4)Six months, for a misdemeanor punishable only by a fine or forfeiture.
Proposed law provides for an exception to these present law time limitations for the crime
of video voyeurism, which shall not commence to run until the crime is discovered by the
victim.
(Adds C.Cr.P. Art. 573.2)
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