RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 143 (HB 99) 2019 Regular Session Falconer
Existing law provides that a religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or youth-
serving institution or organization may require any person who applies to work with children
as a volunteer or as a paid employee to do the following:
(1)Agree to release all investigative records for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of
criminal violation information.
(2)Supply fingerprints and submit to a criminal history records check.
(3)Attend a comprehensive youth protection training program.
New law provides that any head coach of youth athletes in an organized sports or recreational
athletic contest, not as part of a religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or
youth-serving institution, and who is not a parent of the child, legal guardian of the child, or
is otherwise not a family member of the child, is required to do the following:
(1)Agree to release all investigative records for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of
criminal violation information.
(2)Supply fingerprints and submit to a criminal history records check.
(3)Make available criminal history record information.
New law provides that when a criminal history records check is requested, the La. Bureau
of Criminal Identification and Information shall provide the requestor with the state criminal
history record information of the individual subject to the inquiry. New law further requires
the bureau to forward the fingerprints to the FBI for a national criminal history records check
and provide the requestor with the national criminal history record information of the
individual subject to the inquiry.
New law requires the bureau to charge the individual subject to the background check for
furnishing information contained in the criminal history and identification files, including
any additional costs. For paid employees of a youth-serving institution or organization, new
law requires the bureau to charge the institution or organization for the criminal history
records check.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 15:587.3)