RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 29 (HB 450) 2021 Regular Session Cox
Existing law requires the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Information (bureau) to provide certain agencies with requested criminal
history information.
New law adds the Louisiana Manufactured Housing Commission to the list of agencies when
the commission is reviewing applications for licensure.
New law requires the commission to submit necessary information about licensure applicants
to the bureau in order for the bureau to make the bureau's criminal history record pertaining
to the applicant available to the commission.
Existing law authorizes the La. Manufactured Housing Commission to obtain criminal
history record information from the bureau on applicants for any license issued by the
commission. Further, existing law authorizes the commission to charge and collect a fee
from an applicant to cover the cost of obtaining the applicant's criminal history record
information.
New law retains existing law and requires the applicant to submit fingerprints and necessary
information to the commission, who shall submit the information to the bureau, and requires
the bureau to provide the commission with the applicant's criminal history record
information.
New law defines "extraordinary circumstances".
Existing law requires the commission to set continuing education requirements and approve
providers and materials for continuing education courses.
New law retains existing law and authorizes the commission to suspend the continuing
education requirements under extraordinary circumstances.
Prior law defined a builder to mean a person or an entity that designs, manufactures, or
constructs homes, including dealers, developers, manufacturers, and installers, whether or
not the consumer purchased the underlying real estate with the home or the builder initially
occupied the home as his residence.
New law repeals prior law and defines a builder as the dealer who sold the home, the
manufacturer who constructed the home or any section of the home if it is a multi-section
home, the installer who installed the home, any person or an entity that designed,
manufactured, or constructed the home, whether or not the consumer purchased the
underlying real estate with the home or the builder initially occupied the home as his
residence, or any person or entity licensed by the commission.
Existing law requires the owner to give written notice of defects to the commission by
following certain procedures, and requires the commission to give the appropriate builder a
reasonable opportunity to comply with existing law.
New law adds that notice shall be required for each individual home that is defective.
New law defines "extraordinary circumstances".
Existing law requires installers to attend one continuing education course per year and
requires the commission to set continuing education requirements and approve providers and
materials for continuing education courses.
New law authorizes the commission to suspend the continuing education requirements under
extraordinary circumstances.
Effective August 1, 2021. (Amends R.S. 15:587(A)(1)(a), R.S. 51:911.24(I)(1), (2), and (J)(1), 912.3(1), 912.5(A), and
912.27(A)(3); Adds R.S. 15:587(A)(1)(k), R.S. 51:911.22(14), 911.24(I)(3), and 912.21(14))