ENROLLED
ACT No. 355
2019 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 184
BY REPRESENTATIVE HENRY
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 14:38.4 and 63.5, relative to school athletic and recreational athletic contests;
3 to create the crime of harassment of a school or recreation athletic contest official;
4 to create the crime of entry or remaining on site of a school athletic or recreation
5 athletic contest after being forbidden; to provide for definitions; to provide for
6 penalties; and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 14:38.4 and 63.5 are hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 §38.4. Harassment of a school or recreation athletic contest official
10 A.(1) No person shall engage in the harassment of a school athletic or
11 recreation athletic contest official that occurs under either of the following
12 circumstances:
13 (a) While the school athletic or recreation athletic contest official is actively
14 engaged in the conducting, supervising, refereeing, or officiating of a school-
15 sanctioned interscholastic athletic contest or a sanctioned recreation athletic contest.
16 (b) In the immediate vicinity of a school-sanctioned interscholastic athletic
17 contest or a sanctioned recreation athletic contest and is based on the official's
18 performance in the conducting, supervising, refereeing, or officiating of a school-
19 sanctioned interscholastic athletic contest or a sanctioned recreation athletic contest.
20 (2) For purposes of this Paragraph, "harassment" shall include verbal or non-
21 verbal behavior by the offender that would cause a reasonable person to be placed
22 in fear of receiving bodily harm.
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1 B. For purposes of this Section:
2 (1) "Recreation athletic contest official" means any referee, umpire, coach,
3 instructor, administrator, staff person, or recreation employee of any public or quasi
4 public recreation program.
5 (2) "School athletic contest official" means any referee, umpire, coach,
6 instructor, administrator, staff person, or school or school board employee of any
7 public or private elementary and secondary school.
8 C.(1) Whoever commits the crime of harassment of a school or recreation
9 athletic contest official shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned
10 without hard labor for not more than ninety days, or both.
11 (2)(a) In addition to any other penalty imposed, the court shall order the
12 offender to perform forty hours of court-approved community service work.
13 (b) In addition to any other penalty imposed, the court shall order the
14 offender to participate in a court-approved counseling program which may include
15 anger management, abusive behavior intervention groups, or any other type of
16 counseling deemed appropriate by the court. Any costs associated with the
17 counseling program shall be borne by the offender.
18 (c) Participation in the community service and counseling program required
19 by the provisions of Subparagraphs (a) and (b) of this Paragraph shall not be
20 suspended.
21 (d) Failure to successfully complete the community service work and
22 counseling program, as determined by the supervisor of the program to which he is
23 assigned, may result in revocation of probation.
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25 §63.5. Entry or remaining on site of a school or recreation athletic contest after
26 being forbidden
27 A. No person shall without authority go into or upon or remain in or upon,
28 or attempt to go into or upon or remain in or upon, any immovable property or other
29 site or location that belongs to another and that is used for any school athletic contest
30 or recreation athletic contest, including any area in the immediate vicinity of the site
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1 or location of the athletic contest, after having been forbidden to do so, either orally
2 or in writing, by any owner, lessee, or custodian of the property or by any other
3 authorized person.
4 B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more
5 than five hundred dollars, imprisoned without hard labor for not more than six
6 months, or both.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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