ENROLLED
ACT No. 174
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 150
BY REPRESENTATIVES BACALA, ADAMS, AMEDEE, BEAULLIEU, BISHOP,
BOURRIAQUE, BUTLER, CARRIER, COUSSAN, CREWS, DEVILLIER,
DUBUISSON, EDMONDS, EDMONSTON, EMERSON, FARNUM, FIRMENT,
FONTENOT, GADBERRY, GAROFALO, GOUDEAU, HARRIS, HODGES,
HORTON, ILLG, IVEY, MIKE JOHNSON, MCFARLAND, MCKNIGHT,
MCMAHEN, MIGUEZ, GREGORY MILLER, MINCEY, NELSON, CHARLES
OWEN, ROBERT OWEN, PRESSLY, RISER, ROMERO, SCHAMERHORN,
SCHEXNAYDER, SEABAUGH, SELDERS, STEFANSKI, THOMAS,
THOMPSON, WHEAT, AND KERNER
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 14:34.2(A)(3), relative to battery of a police officer; to provide
3 relative to the elements of the crime of battery of a police officer; to specify that the
4 crime includes the throwing of water and other liquids; to remove the requirement
5 that the offender be incarcerated or detained at the time of the throwing; and to
6 provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 14:34.2(A)(3) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง34.2. Battery of a police officer
10 A.
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12 (3) For purposes of this Section, "battery of a police officer" includes the use
13 of force or violence upon the person of the police officer by throwing water or any
14 other liquid, feces, urine, blood, saliva, or any form of human waste by an offender
15 while the offender is incarcerated by a court of law and is being detained in any jail,
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1 prison, correctional facility, juvenile institution, temporary holding center, halfway
2 house, or detention facility.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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