HLS 25RS-768 ORIGINAL
2025 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 141
BY REPRESENTATIVE HUGHES
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
BAIL: Provides relative to the discharge of bail obligations
1 AN ACT
2To enact Code of Criminal Procedure Article 331(M), relative to bail; to provide relative to
3 the discharge of bail obligations; and to provide for related matters.
4Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. Code of Criminal Procedure Article 331(M) is hereby enacted to read as
6follows:
7 Art. 331. Discharge of bail obligation
8 * * *
9 M. At any time prior to the defendant's failure to appear or within one
10 hundred eighty days after the notice of warrant for arrest is sent, the surety may file
11 proof of the defendant's deportation with the clerk of court. If the surety is unable
12 to obtain proof of deportation, the surety or the court may invoke a contradictory
13 hearing in order to establish proof of the defendant's deportation. If the court
14 determines that the defendant's deportation has occurred, the surety shall be fully and
15 finally discharged and relieved of any and all obligations under the bail undertaking.
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HB NO. 141
DIGEST
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part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 141 Original 2025 Regular Session Hughes
Abstract: Provides that the bail undertaking ceases and the surety is relieved of all bail
obligations when proof has been provided of the defendant's deportation.
Present law (C.Cr.P. Art. 331) provides for the discharge of bail obligations.
Proposed law retains present law.
Proposed law provides that at any time prior to the defendant's failure to appear or within
180 days after the notice of warrant for arrest is sent, the surety may file proof of the
defendant's deportation with the clerk of court.
Proposed law provides that if the surety is unable to obtain proof of deportation, the surety
or the court may invoke a contradictory hearing in order to establish proof of the defendant's
deportation.
Proposed law provides that if the court determines that the defendant's deportation has
occurred, the surety shall be fully and finally discharged and relieved of any and all
obligations under the bail undertaking.
(Adds C.Cr.P. Art. 331(M))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
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