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HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS
HB 396 2021 Regular Session Turner
COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to fees for services by constables and marshals
Synopsis of Senate Amendments
1.Adds an effective date contingent upon the Judicial Council's favorable
recommendation.
Digest of Bill as Finally Passed by Senate
Present law places the marshal of the city of Ruston under a separate fee schedule.
Proposed law changes the fees collected by the marshal of the city of Ruston by placing the
marshal within the general fee schedules of marshals and constables (R.S. 13:5807) and by
removing the authority of the city marshal of the city of Ruston to collect certain fees and
costs under a separate authority (R.S. 13:5807.5).
Proposed law provides that in accordance with present law, the increase in court costs or fees
as provided by proposed law only becomes effective if and when the Judicial Council
provides a favorable recommendation in the Judicial Council 2022 Report to the Louisiana
Legislature.
(Amends R.S. 13:5807.5(intro. para.))
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