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2022 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 161
BY SENATOR TALBOT
CRIME/PUNISHMENT. Increases penalty for crime of carjacking when committed with
a firearm or other dangerous weapon. (8/1/22)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 14:64.2(B), relative to the crime of carjacking; to increase the
3 penalty for carjacking when committed with a firearm or other dangerous weapon;
4 and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 14:64.2(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง64.2. Carjacking
8 * * *
9 B.(1) Whoever Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection,
10 whoever commits the crime of carjacking shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not
11 less than two years nor more than twenty years, without benefit of parole, probation,
12 or suspension of sentence.
13 (2) Whoever commits the crime of carjacking with a firearm or other
14 dangerous weapon shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than eleven
15 years nor more than twenty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or
16 suspension of sentence.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 161
SLS 22RS-289 ENGROSSED
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Whitney Kauffeld.
DIGEST
SB 161 Engrossed 2022 Regular Session Talbot
Present law provides that the crime of carjacking is punishable by imprisonment at hard
labor for between two and 20 years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of
sentence.
Proposed law retains present law and provides for increased penalty of not less than 11 nor
more than 20 years when the crime of carjacking is committed with a firearm or other
dangerous weapon.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 14:64.2(B))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.