HLS 22RS-1500 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 871
BY REPRESENTATIVE MARCELLE
MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC: Provides relative to reinstatement fees for an arrested
person's failure to honor a written promise to appear
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 32:57.1(B) and enact R.S. 32:57.1(D), relative to a failure to
3 honor a written promise to appear; to provide for reinstatement fees or fines relative
4 to an arrested person's failure to honor a written promise to appear; to waive
5 reinstatement fees or fines under certain circumstances; and to provide for related
6 matters.
7Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 32:57.1(B) is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S. 32:57.1(D) is
9hereby enacted to read as follows:
10 ยง57.1. Failure to honor written promise to appear; penalty; disposition of fines
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12 B. Whenever the arrested person makes an appearance as required by
13 Subsection A hereof of this Section or pays an appropriate fine for the offense
14 committed, as determined by the court, the prosecuting authority shall immediately
15 notify the Department of Public Safety and Corrections thereof of such appearance
16 or payment of a fine. Upon such notification and payment of an additional fifty
17 dollars to the department, the operator's license of the arrested person shall be
18 renewed or reissued for the purpose of this Section. Twelve dollars and fifty cents
19 of the additional fine imposed by this Section shall be paid to the court exercising
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1 jurisdiction, to be deposited in that court's criminal court fund and to be used in the
2 same manner as the other sums deposited in said fund.
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4 D. Anyone who resolves a suspension for a failure to honor a written
5 promise to appear pursuant to Subsections A and B of this Section with the court
6 exercising jurisdiction and provides proof to the Department of Public Safety and
7 Corrections that the matter has been disposed of shall not be required to pay any
8 previously imposed reinstatement fees or fines provided for in this Section.
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 871 Original 2022 Regular Session Marcelle
Abstract: Waives reinstatement fees and fines upon resolution of a suspension for a failure
to honor a written promise to appear.
Present law authorizes the magistrate or judge of the court exercising jurisdiction to
immediately forward to the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections (DPSC) the notice of the
failure to appear, with information necessary for identification of the arrested person,
whenever an arrested person released on his written promise to appear before a magistrate
as specified in a summons fails to appear.
Present law requires the DPSC to immediately notify the arrested person of the suspension
of his operator's license and impose a $50 fee, regardless of the disposition of the original
charge. Present law requires the DPSC to inform the arrested person that his operator's
license cannot be renewed or reissued until the forwarding court exercising jurisdiction
certifies he honored the appearance or paid an appropriate fine for the offense as determined
by the forwarding court exercising jurisdiction.
Present law requires the prosecuting authority to immediately notify the DPSC whenever the
arrested person makes an appearance as required by present law or pays the appropriate fine
for the offense committed. Present law requires the operator's license of the arrested person
to be renewed or reissued upon notification and payment of an additional $50 to the
department.
Proposed law waives the payment of any previously imposed reinstatement fees or fines
provided in present law for anyone who resolves a previous suspension for a failure to honor
a written promise to appear under the provisions of present law with the court exercising
jurisdiction and provides corresponding proof to the DPSC.
(Amends R.S. 32:57.1(B); Adds R.S. 32:57.1(D))
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