RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 5 (HB 111) 2019 Regular Session Stefanski
Existing law provides that the crime of disarming of a peace officer is committed when an
offender, through use of force or threat of force, and without the consent of the peace officer,
takes possession of any law enforcement equipment from the person of a peace officer or
from an area within the peace officer's immediate control when the offender has reasonable
grounds to believe that the victim is a peace officer acting in the performance of his duty.
For these purposes, prior law defined "law enforcement equipment" as any firearms,
weapons, restraints, ballistics shields, forced entry tools, defense technology equipment, self-
defense batons, self-defense sprays, chemical weapons, or electro shock weapons issued to
a peace officer and used in the course and scope of his law enforcement duties.
New law amends prior law to remove the requirement that the law enforcement equipment
be issued to the peace officer by his law enforcement agency for the crime of disarming of
a peace officer to apply. New law also adds an element of the crime that the equipment be
approved by the peace officer's law enforcement agency for use by the peace officer in the
course and scope of his duties.
New law otherwise retains existing law.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 14:34.6(B)(1))