RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 484 (HB 583) 2021 Regular Session Fontenot
Existing law provides for a definition of "crime of violence", which means an offense that
has, as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the
person or property of another and that, by its very nature, involves a substantial risk that
physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of
committing the offense or an offense that involves the possession or use of a dangerous
weapon.
Existing law further provides for a list of certain enumerated existing law offenses that are
included as crimes of violence.
New law adds the existing law (R.S. 14:46.1) crime of false imprisonment while armed with
a dangerous weapon to the list of enumerated crimes of violence.
Existing law provides for the crime of second-degree kidnapping.
New law adds the forcible seizing of a corrections officer and certain other persons for any
period of time in the definition of kidnapping, and further provides that using such a
kidnapped person to facilitate the commission of simple or aggravated escape constitutes
second degree kidnapping.
Effective August 1, 2021.
(Amends R.S. 14:44.1(A) and (B); Adds R.S. 14:2(B)(25))