HLS 24RS-679 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 226
BY REPRESENTATIVE MANDIE LANDRY
CRIME: Increases the penalties for public bribery
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 14:118(C)(1), relative to offenses against organized government;
3 to provide relative to the penalties for public bribery; and to provide for related
4 matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 14:118(C)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง118. Public bribery
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9 C.(1) Whoever commits the crime of public bribery shall be fined not more
10 than one two thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not
11 more than five ten years, or both.
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DIGEST
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HB 226 Original 2024 Regular Session Mandie Landry
Abstract: Increases the penalties for public bribery.
Present law provides for the crime of public bribery.
Proposed law retains present law.
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are additions. HLS 24RS-679 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 226
Present law provides that whoever commits the crime of public bribery shall be fined not
more than $1,000, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years,
or both.
Proposed law changes the penalty to provide for a maximum fine of $2,000.
Proposed law further changes the penalty of imprisonment, to be served with or without hard
labor, from a maximum of five years to 10 years.
(Amends R.S. 14:118(C)(1))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
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