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HB 708 Engrossed 2021 Regular Session Fontenot
Abstract: Provides relative to the payment of the bail obligation when the arrest occurs in a
different jurisdiction from where the bail obligation originated.
Proposed law defines "originating jurisdiction" and "executing jurisdiction".
Proposed law allows a person who is arrested and booked in an executing jurisdiction pursuant to
a warrant for arrest issued by the originating jurisdiction to post bail in either the originating or
executing jurisdiction.
Proposed law provides the conditions by which proposed law may occur.
Proposed law specifies that proposed law is not applicable to warrants for sex offenses, homicides
and crimes resulting in a death or deaths, felony domestic violence offenses, and aggravated
offenses.
(Adds C.Cr.P. Arts. 311(8) and (9) and 330.1)