SLS 24RS-479 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 184
BY SENATOR KLEINPETER
CRIME/PUNISHMENT. Increases the maximum time of incarceration for aggravated flight
from an officer. (8/1/24)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 14:108.1(E), relative to offenses affecting law enforcement; to
3 provide relative to the crime of aggravated flight from an officer; to increase the
4 penalties for aggravated flight from an officer; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 14:108.1(E) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง108.1. Flight from an officer; aggravated flight from an officer
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9 E.(1) Whoever Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection,
10 whoever commits aggravated flight from an officer shall be imprisoned at hard labor
11 for not more than five ten years and may be fined not more than two thousand
12 dollars.
13 (2)(a) Whoever commits the crime of aggravated flight from an officer that
14 results in serious bodily injury shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than
15 ten fifteen years and may be fined not more than two thousand dollars.
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SLS 24RS-479 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alden A. Clement Jr.
DIGEST
SB 184 Original 2024 Regular Session Kleinpeter
Present law defines aggravated flight from an officer as the intentional refusal of a driver to
bring a vehicle to a stop or of an operator to bring a watercraft to a stop, under circumstances
wherein human life is endangered, knowing that he has been given a visual and audible
signal to stop by a police officer when the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the
driver or operator has committed an offense.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law provides that aggravated flight from an officer is punishable by imprisonment
at hard labor for up to five years and in addition a possible fine of up to $2,000.
Proposed law increases the maximum period of imprisonment from five years to ten years
and otherwise retains present law.
Present law provides that aggravated flight from an officer when the offense results in
serious bodily injury is punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for up to ten years and in
addition a possible fine of up to $2,000.
Proposed law increases the maximum period of imprisonment when serious bodily injury
occurs from ten years to 15 years and otherwise retains present law.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 14:108.1(E))
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words in boldface type and underscored are additions.