RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 418 (HB 85) 2019 Regular Session Billiot
Existing law requires the Crime Victims Reparations Board to order the payment of
reparations to a crime victim or other claimant for any pecuniary loss sustained by the victim
or claimant that was proximately caused by the commission of certain crimes.
With regard to the awarding of reparations in this regard, existing law provides for the
following:
(1)No award of reparations shall be made if the board finds that:
(a)The crime was not timely reported as specified by existing law.
(b)The claimant failed or refused to cooperate substantially with the reasonable
requests of appropriate law enforcement officials.
(c)Reparations may substantially enrich the offender.
(d)The claimant was the offender or an accessory, or that an award to the
claimant would unjustly benefit any of them.
(e)The claim was not filed timely as required in existing law.
(2)The board may deny or reduce an award if it finds that the behavior of the victim at
the time of the crime giving rise to the claim was such that the victim bears some
measure of responsibility for the crime that caused the physical injury, death, or
catastrophic property loss or for the physical injury, death, or catastrophic property
loss.
New law retains existing law and provides that no victim or claimant shall be denied or
otherwise deemed ineligible for reparations, nor shall any award for reparations be reduced,
on the basis that the victim or claimant has a conviction or adjudication of delinquency, on
the basis that the victim or claimant is currently on probation or parole, or on the basis that
the victim or claimant has previously served any sentence of incarceration, probation, or
parole unrelated to the offense for which reparations would otherwise be awarded pursuant
to existing law.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Adds R.S. 46:1809(E))