HLS 18RS-286 ORIGINAL
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 66
BY REPRESENTATIVE BAGLEY
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Provides relative to fees for pretrial programs in DeSoto Parish
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 16:17(E) and to enact R.S. 16:18, relative to pretrial diversion
3 or intervention programs in DeSoto Parish; to provide relative to the assessment of
4 a reasonable fee; to provide for the disbursement of the proceeds of such fee; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published
7 as provided by Article III, Section 13 of the Constitution of
8 Louisiana.
9Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 16:17(E) is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S. 16:18 is hereby
11enacted to read as follows:
12 §17. Victims assistance program; creation
13 * * *
14 E. Except in DeSoto Parish, the The district attorney may assess and collect
15 a reasonable fee from participants in pretrial diversion or pretrial intervention
16 programs to support and maintain victims assistance and/or diversionary programs.
17 §18. Pretrial diversion in DeSoto Parish; disbursement of fees
18 A district attorney may assess a reasonable fee to a participant in a pretrial
19 diversion or pretrial intervention program operated in DeSoto Parish. This fee shall
20 be paid to the sheriff and shall be disbursed as follows:
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HB NO. 66
1 (1) Thirty-two percent to the criminal court fund.
2 (2) Twenty percent to the office of the district public defender.
3 (3) Twelve percent to the office of the district attorney.
4 (4) Fourteen percent to the criminalistics laboratory which performs the
5 majority of crime lab services for the district.
6 (5) Eight percent to the juror and witness fee fund.
7 (6) Five percent to the clerk of court.
8 (7) Four percent to the juvenile detention fund.
9 (8) Four percent to the judicial expense fund.
10 (9) One percent to the state treasury to be deposited into the Traumatic Head
11 and Spinal Cord Injury Fund.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 66 Original 2018 Regular Session Bagley
Abstract: In DeSoto Parish, requires the disbursement of a reasonable fee for participation
in pretrial programs to specific entities.
Present law authorizes a district attorney to assess and collect a reasonable fee from
participants in pretrial diversion or pretrial intervention programs. Provides that such fees
are to be used to support and maintain victims assistance programs, diversionary programs,
or both.
Proposed law retains present law, but requires, in DeSoto Parish, that the fees be disbursed
in various percentages to the criminal court fund, the office of the district public defender,
the office of the district attorney, the criminalistics laboratory which performs the majority
of crime lab services for the district, the juror and witness fee fund, the clerk of court, the
juvenile detention fund, the judicial expense fund, and the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord
Injury Fund.
(Amends R.S. 16:17(E); Adds R.S. 16:18)
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