RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 65 (HB 441) 2023 Regular Session Bryant
Existing law provides for the crime of aggravated assault upon a utility service employee
with a firearm and provides for penalties.
Existing law provides for the following definitions:
(1)"Utility service" means any electricity, gas, water, broadband, cable television, or
telecommunications service.
(2)"Utility service employee" means any uniformed, readily identified employee of any
utility service.
New law amends the existing law definition of "utility service" to include heat, steam, and
sewer services. Further amends the existing law definition of "utility service employee" to
include any person employed under contract, or an employee of any utility service that
provides electricity, gas, water, broadband, cable television, heat, steam, telecommunications
services, or sewer services, whether privately, municipally, cooperatively, or investor-owned.
Effective August 1, 2023.
(Amends R.S. 14:37.5(B)(2) and (3))