The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SB 232 Original 2021 Regular Session Barrow
Proposed law creates the Louisiana Power-Based Violence Review Panel. Provides that a majority
of the members of each panel constitute a quorum. Provides that all official actions of the panel shall
require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the panel. Requires that the panel meet
at least four times each year, and may meet at other times at the call of the chairman or as provided
by panel rule. Authorizes the panel may adopt rules of procedure for its operation.
Requires that the panel:
(1) Evaluate policies and practices of institutions of secondary education, their systems, and the
Board of Regents regarding reporting, investigating, and adjudicating power-based violence
by and against students and recommend revisions to improve such policies and practices.
(2) Advise and assist institutions of secondary education, their systems, and the Board of
Regents in coordinating procedures to provide power-based violence prevention programs.
(3) Serve as an advisory agency to the legislature, the governor, the Board of Regents, the board
of supervisors of each postsecondary education system regarding power-based violence.
Requires that to the extent permitted by and in accordance with the Public Records Law, the Board
of Regents, each postsecondary education system, each institution of a postsecondary education
system, and each local law enforcement or criminal justice agency located within a parish with an
institution campus shall make available all facts, records, information, and data required by the panel
and in all ways cooperate with the panel in carrying out the functions and duties imposed by
proposed law.
Defines "power-based violence" means any form of interpersonal violence intended to control or
intimidate another person through the assertion of power over them including
sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
Effective August 1, 2021.
(Adds R.S. 17:3399.41-3399.45)