RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 697 (HB 773) 2018 Regular Session Lyons
Existing law provides that a court may grant a protective order or approve a consent
agreement to bring about the cessation of domestic abuse.
When the protective order is granted, prior law authorized the court order a medical opinion
regarding a medical evaluation of the defendant or the abused person, or both, to be
conducted by an independent court-appointed evaluator.
New law removes the court's authority to order a medical opinion regarding a medical
evaluation of the abused person. Instead, new law authorizes the court to order a mental
health evaluation, in lieu of or in addition to a medical evaluation, of the perpetrator subject
to the same provisions of existing law relative to the medical evaluation.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 46:2136(A)(4))