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2020 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 364
BY SENATOR BERNARD
PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT. Requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification and
Information to provide criminal history information regarding employees or potential
employees to juvenile detention facilities. (gov sig)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 15:587(A)(1)(j), relative to the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification
3 and Information; to provide relative to the duty of the bureau to provide information
4 to certain entities; to provide that the bureau is to provide certain information
5 regarding employees and potential employees upon request to juvenile detention
6 facilities; and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 15:587(A)(1)(j) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 ยง587. Duty to provide information; processing fees; Louisiana Bureau of Criminal
10 Identification and Information
11 A.(1)(a) * * *
12 * * *
13 (j) Any juvenile detention facility, including facilities owned or operated
14 by any governmental, profit, nonprofit, private, or public agency or authority,
15 may submit fingerprint cards or other identifying information of a person
16 employed by, or seeking employment with, the facility or the governing
17 authority of the facility and whose duties include, or may include, supervisory
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1 or disciplinary authority over children, direct care of a child, or directly or
2 indirectly providing, or with the potential of providing, daily care or
3 supervision to any child or youth in the custody of or under the supervision of
4 any Louisiana state government agency or facility or agency licensed by the
5 state. The bureau shall, upon request, and after receipt of fingerprint cards or
6 other identifying information from the facility or the governing authority of the
7 facility, make available to the facility or the governing authority of the facility
8 all arrest and conviction information contained in the bureau's criminal history
9 record and identification files that pertain to the employee or potential
10 employee. In addition, in order to determine an employee or potential
11 employee's eligibility or suitability, the fingerprints shall be forwarded by the
12 bureau to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history
13 record check.
14 * * *
15 Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
16 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
17 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
18 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
19 effective on the day following such approval.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alden A. Clement Jr.
DIGEST
SB 364 Original 2020 Regular Session Bernard
Present law creates and provides relative to the powers and duties of the La. Bureau of
Criminal Identification and Information. Present law further provides that, among other
functions, the bureau is to establish and maintain a central repository of criminal history
record information and to adopt regulations and procedures to prescribe the terms and
conditions under which eligible individuals or agencies may gain access to such information.
Proposed law retains present law.
Proposed law provides that any juvenile detention facility, including facilities owned or
operated by any governmental, profit, nonprofit, private, or public agency or authority, may
submit fingerprint cards or other identifying information of a person employed by, or
seeking employment with, the facility or the governing authority of the facility and whose
duties include, or may include, supervisory or disciplinary authority over children, direct
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care of a child, or directly or indirectly providing, or with the potential of providing, daily
care or supervision to any child or youth in the custody of or under the supervision of any
state government agency or facility or agency licensed by the state. Proposed law further
provides that the bureau must, upon request and after receipt of fingerprint cards or other
identifying information from the facility or the governing authority of the facility, make
available to the facility or the governing authority of the facility all arrest and conviction
information contained in the bureau's criminal history record and identification files that
pertain to the employee or potential employee. Proposed law further provides that, in order
to determine an employee or potential employee's eligibility or suitability, the fingerprints
are to be forwarded by the bureau to the FBI for a national criminal history record check.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 15:587(A)(1)(j))
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