HLS 24RS-4393 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 982 (Substitute for House Bill No. 820 by Representative Walters)
BY REPRESENTATIVE WALTERS
LAW ENFORCE/CRIM JUS COM: Provides relative to the composition of the La.
Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 15:1202(A)(introductory paragraph) and to enact R.S.
3 15:1202(A)(33), relative to the membership of the Louisiana Commission on Law
4 Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice; to add members to the
5 commission; and to provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 15:1202(A)(introductory paragraph) is hereby amended and
8reenacted and R.S. 15:1202(A)(33) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 ยง1202. Composition of commission
10 A. The commission shall consist of fifty-nine sixty-three members as
11 follows:
12 * * *
13 (33) Four members, one member from Caddo Parish, one member from East
14 Baton Rouge Parish, and two members from Orleans Parish, each of whom shall be
15 a community leader with prior law enforcement experience or study within the law
16 enforcement discipline from a university or law school or an academic expert with
17 prior law enforcement experience or study within the law enforcement discipline
18 from a university or law school.
19 * * *
Page 1 of 2
CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 24RS-4393 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 982
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 982 Original 2024 Regular Session Walters
Abstract: Provides relative to the composition of the La. Commission on Law Enforcement
and Administration of Criminal Justice.
Present law provides for the composition of the La. Commission on Law Enforcement and
Administration of Criminal Justice, and provides for 59 members of the commission.
Proposed law increases the membership to 63 by adding four members, one member from
Caddo Parish, one member from East Baton Rouge Parish, and two members from Orleans
Parish, each of whom shall be a community leader with prior law enforcement experience
or study within the law enforcement discipline from a university or law school or an
academic expert with prior law enforcement experience or study within the law enforcement
discipline from a university or law school.
(Amends R.S. 15:1202(A)(intro. para.); Adds R.S. 15:1202(A)(33))
Page 2 of 2
CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.