HLS 16RS-1731 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 939
BY REPRESENTATIVE HOFFMANN
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS/ASST: Provides with respect to salaries of assistant district
attorneys in the 4
th
JDC
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)(4), (19), (23), (32), and
11 (38) to the contrary, the district attorney for the parish of Orleans and the Fourth,
12 Nineteenth, Twenty-Third, and the Thirty-Second Judicial Districts may reallocate
13 by combining or dividing the total amount fixed in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection
14 to pay the salaries of any of his other assistant district attorneys in any lawful manner
15 he deems appropriate. The district attorney shall certify to the state treasurer the
16 amount of the annual salary payable upon warrant for each of his assistant district
17 attorneys provided for in R.S. 16:51(A)(4), (19), (23), (32), and (38).
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are additions. HLS 16RS-1731 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 939
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HB 939 Original 2016 Regular Session Hoffmann
Abstract: Adds the 4
th
JDC to the list of judicial districts where the district attorney may
combine or divide assistant district attorney salary warrants.
Present law provides for a fixed total salary amount of $45,000 per assistant district attorney
for each judicial district court throughout the state of Louisiana, including the parish of
Orleans.
Present law provides that, notwithstanding the minimum number of assistant district
attorneys permitted under present law in Orleans Parish, the 19
th
JDC, the 23
rd
JDC, and the
32
nd
JDC, 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
those jurisdictions in any lawful manner the district attorney deems appropriate.
Proposed law retains present law and adds the 4
th
JDC to that list of judicial districts
authorized to reallocate the salary warrants to pay assistant district attorneys.
(Amends R.S. 16:11(A)(2))
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