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HB 5 Original 2019 Regular Session Dwight
Abstract: Creates a crime that prohibits a convicted sex offender from volunteering for, providing
services to, or being employed by a home study program or from being physically present in
a home used by a home study program.
Proposed law creates a crime that prohibits any person convicted of a sex offense as defined by
present law from all of the following:
(1)Volunteering for, providing services to, or being employed by a home study program.
(2)Being physically present in a residential home used for home study purposes during the time
in which the home study program is conducted. Provides an exception to this prohibition for
a student of the home study program who was convicted of a sex offense.
(3)Being physically present in a home education center or facility that offers space for use by
a home study program during the time in which the home study program is being conducted.
Provides an exception to this prohibition for a student of the home study program who was
convicted of a sex offense.
Proposed law defines "home study program" as an educational program in which the curriculum is
implemented by a parent or tutor and includes but is not limited to a home study program approved
by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education pursuant to present law.
Proposed law provides that any person convicted of the offense shall be fined not more than $1,000,
imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than one year, or both.
(Adds R.S. 14:91.10)