RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 387 (SB 73) 2023 Regular Session Robert Mills
Existing law authorizes the creation of the truancy and assessment and service centers
program to prevent truancy.
Existing law provides that truancy has long been demonstrated nationwide as a primary
indicator of a path to juvenile delinquency and that early intervention has been shown as the
key to correcting a propensity for destructive or criminal behavior.
New law retains existing law but changes the program title from "truancy and assessment and
service centers" to "truancy assessment service centers".
Existing law specifies that La. State University (LSU), office of social services research and
development, is responsible for developing and implementing a monitoring and evaluation
program.
New law retains existing law but changes the developer and implementor of the truancy
prevention program from the LSU office of social services research and development to the
La. Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice
(commission).
Existing law provides that the LSU office of social services research and development is to
report statistical data indicating the effectiveness of the truancy prevention program to the
appropriate standing committees of the legislature for use by the committees in consideration
of continuation or expansion of the program.
New law retains existing law but changes the agency that reports to the legislature from the
LSU office of social services research and development to the commission and new law
designates the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget as the legislative committee for
purposes of reporting statistical data.
New law provides that, subject to appropriation by the legislature, the commission may use
appropriated funds to provide for the reasonable costs of administering the truancy
prevention program and to provide funding for the local programs.
New law directs the La. State Law Institute to make technical changes to the program title
in the Children's Code and the Revised Statutes.
Effective June 14, 2023.
(Amends Ch.C. Title VII, Ch. 15 (chapter heading) and Arts. 791.4 and 791.5)