RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 516 (SB 76) 2018 Regular Session Boudreaux
Prior law prohibited taking certain contraband into state-owned and administered hospitals.
New law makes prior law and new law applicable to all hospitals by removing "state-owned
and administered".
Prior law identified one form of contraband prohibited in hospitals as narcotic or hypnotic
drugs that create a hypnotic effect if taken internally. New law modernizes this definition to
include any controlled dangerous substance that has not been prescribed or recommended in
accordance with the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law.
Prior law identified one form of contraband prohibited in hospitals as any firearm or other
instrumentality customarily considered a dangerous weapon.
New law provides that in order to be considered prohibited contraband the firearm or other
instrumentality must be possessed by a person who is prohibited from possessing the firearm
or instrumentality pursuant to state or federal law.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 14:402.1(A))