ENROLLED
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
1 AN ACT
2 To 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.
5 Be 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.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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