HLS 22RS-3439 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 1071 (Substitute for House Bill No. 840 by Representative Bagley)
BY REPRESENTATIVES BAGLEY, ECHOLS, PRESSLY, SEABAUGH, AND TURNER
AND SENATORS MILLIGAN AND PEACOCK
CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the funding of the criminalistics laboratory
commissions
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 40:2266.1(F), relative to criminalistics laboratory commissions;
3 to provide for additional funding for optional revenues for criminalistics laboratories;
4 and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:2266.1 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง2266.1. Optional revenues; collection, handling, and disbursement thereof
8 * * *
9 F. The sheriff of each parish, each municipality that operates a police
10 department, and each district attorney who represents one or more parishes within
11 the respective criminalistics laboratory commission area may make a direct
12 contribution to the respective criminalistics laboratory commission, the sheriff from
13 his salary fund, and the district attorney and municipality that operates a police
14 department, from any funds available to defray expenses of his their office, including
15 but not limited to pre-trial intervention or diversion, from time to time in order to
16 assist in alleviating any deficit that may be existing in the operating funds of the
17 laboratory commission.
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are additions. HLS 22RS-3439 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 1071
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 1071 Original 2022 Regular Session Bagley
Abstract: Provides additional funding for certain criminalistics laboratories.
Present law provides that sheriffs and district attorneys may make direct contributions to
their respective criminalistics laboratory commissions to defray expenses of their offices.
Proposed law retains present law and adds that municipalities that operate police
departments may make direct contributions to their respective criminalistics laboratory
commissions to defray expenses of their offices.
Proposed law provides that sheriffs, district attorneys, and municipalities may make
contributions from pre-trial intervention or diversion funds.
(Amends R.S. 40:2266.1(F))
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