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HB 328 Original 2024 Regular Session McFarland
Abstract: Permits district attorneys to fix the salaries of assistant district attorneys.
Present law provides for a minimum number of assistant district attorneys in each judicial district
and in the parish of Orleans, and further provides for a fixed total salary amount per assistant district
attorney which the state treasurer may pay upon the warrant of each assistant district attorney.
Present law provides that, notwithstanding the minimum number of assistant district attorneys
permitted under present law in Orleans Parish and in the 19th Judicial District, the district attorney
for the parish of Orleans and the 19th Judicial District may reallocate by combining or dividing the
fixed total amount of annual salary permitted to be paid to all assistant district attorneys in that
jurisdiction in any lawful manner the district attorney deems appropriate. Present law further
provides that the district attorney in Orleans Parish and the 19th Judicial District shall certify to the
state treasurer the amount of annual salary payable upon warrant for each of his assistant district
attorneys.
Proposed law permits all judicial districts to reallocate by combining or dividing the fixed total
amount of annual salaries permitted to be paid to all assistant district attorneys in any lawful manner
the district attorney deems appropriate.
(Amends R.S. 16:11(A)(2))