DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute part of the law
or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 500 Original 2020 Regular Session Bagley
Abstract: Requires the disbursement of a reasonable fee for participation in pretrial programs to
specific entities in DeSoto Parish.
Present law authorizes a district attorney to assess and collect a reasonable fee from participants in
pretrial diversion or pretrial intervention programs. Provides that such fees are to be used to support
and maintain victims assistance programs, diversionary programs, or both.
Proposed law retains present law, but requires, in DeSoto Parish, that the fees be disbursed in various
percentages to the criminal court fund, the office of the district public defender, the office of the
district attorney, the criminalistics laboratory which performs the majority of crime lab services for
the district, the sheriff's general fund, the juror and witness fee fund, the clerk of court, the juvenile
detention fund, the judicial expense fund, and the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Fund.
(Amends R.S. 16:17(E); Adds R.S. 16:18)