RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 233 (HB 79) 2016 Regular Session Terry Brown
Existing law requires the collection of court costs from certain criminal defendants to fund
the compensation of jurors.
New law authorizes the parish governing authority within the 39
th
JDC to adopt an ordinance,
which authorizes the use of surplus funds that exceeds $50,000 in the juror compensation
fund at the end of each calendar year to be used to defray the expenses of its criminal court
system.
New law prohibits the use of any monies within the fund obligated for the payment of jurors
from being considered surplus monies and further prohibits the balance in the fund to be
reduced below $50,000 for any expenditures as provided for in new law.
Existing law requires all fines and forfeitures (except criminal bail bonds) imposed by a
district court and a district attorney, to be paid upon collection into the parish treasury for
deposit into a special "Criminal Court Fund" account for the purposes of defraying the court's
expenses relative to indigent persons or other expenses relative to the judges of the criminal
courts and the office of the district attorney.
New law requires the monies in the criminal court fund of the 39
th
JDC to be used to defray
the expenses of the criminal court system.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 15:571.11(A)(1)(a); Adds R.S. 13:3049(B)(1)(e)(vi))