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HB 931 Original 2016 Regular Session White
Abstract: Provides with respect to sentencing for the crime of domestic abuse battery.
Present law provides for the crime of domestic abuse battery, and provides for penalties which
include participation in a court-monitored domestic abuse intervention program.
Proposed law changes present law to require completion of this program rather than participation
in the program.
Proposed law provides for minimum mandatory sentences if the domestic abuse battery is a part of
a pattern of intentional and repeated acts of domestic abuse in which the offender has threatened to
use or actually used physical, sexual, verbal or emotional abuse committed for the purpose of
controlling a family member or household member of the offender.
Proposed law provides penalties of a minimum of 45 days without benefit of suspension of sentence
for a first conviction, a minimum of one year imprisonment upon a second conviction, a minimum
of two years with or without hard labor upon a third conviction, and a minimum of four years at hard
labor upon a fourth or subsequent conviction. All sentences must be served without benefit of
probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.
(Amends R.S. 14:35.3(C)(1) and (2), (D), and (H); Adds R.S. 14:35.3(N))