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HB 157 Original 2025 Regular Session Muscarello
Abstract: Provides for an updated fee schedule for private contract security companies.
Present law provides that the La. State Board of Private Security Examiners (board) may assess the
following schedule of nonrefundable fees:
(1) Company licensee:
(a) Application fee - $20.00.
(b) Examination fee - $50.00.
(c) Reexamination fee - $20.00.
(d) Initial license fee - $400.00.
(e) Renewal license fee - $400.00.
(f) Replacement fee for a lost, destroyed, or mutilated license - $10.00.
(2) Registrant:
(a) Application fee - $30.00.
(b) Renewal fee - $30.00.
(c) Transfer fee - $10.00.
(d) Replacement fee for a lost, destroyed, or mutilated card - $10.00.
(e) Reinstatement fee - $10.00.
(f) Status change fee - $10.00.
(3) Instructor licensee:
(a) Application fee - $20.00. (b) In-house/outside classroom license fee - $100.00.
(c) In-house/outside firearms license fee - $150.00.
(d) Transfer application fee - $20.00.
(e) In-house/outside classroom renewal license fee - $100.00.
(f) In-house/outside firearms renewal license fee - $150.00.
(g) Examination fee - $25.00.
(h) Reexamination fee - $15.00.
(i) Replacement fee for a lost, destroyed, or mutilated license - $10.00.
(j) In-house/outside baton instructor fee - $100.00.
(k) In-house/outside baton instructor renewal license fee - $100.00.
Proposed law changes the fees to the following:
(1) Company license fees:
(a) Initial company license - $500.00.
(b) Company license renewal - $410.00.
(2) Guard registration fees:
(a) Initial guard registration - $75.00.
(b) Guard registration renewal - $65.00.
(3) Instructor license fees:
(a) Classroom instructor license/renewal - $110.00.
(b) Baton instructor license/renewal - $130.00.
(c) Firearms instructor license/renewal - $160.00.
(4) Miscellaneous fees:
(a) Company/instructor examination - $60.00. (b) Status change, transfer, or reinstatement - $30.00.
Present law requires all fees to be paid by check or money order to the board.
Proposed law instead requires the fees to be paid by check or electronic payment.
Proposed law requires, beginning July 1, 2027, and biennially thereafter, all fees provided for in
proposed law (R.S. 37:3286(A)) to be increased by 4%.
Proposed law requires the board to display the fee schedule on its website, that includes every fee
it charges, including administrative fees, and the statutory or regulatory authority for those fees.
Proposed law further requires the board to regularly update the fee schedule of any additional
regulatory or statutory changes.
Proposed law provides that the fees provided for in proposed law (R.S. 37:3286(A)) shall supersede
and replace all administrative fees provided for in Part LIX of Title 46 of the Louisiana
Administrative Code. Proposed law further provides that the fees shall not supersede or replace any
administrative fees imposed after passage of proposed law, until otherwise provided by law.
(Amends R.S. 37:3286(A)(1)(a) and (b), (2)(a) and (b), (3)(a)-(c), and (B); Adds R.S. 37:3286(A)(4),
(E), and (F); Repeals R.S. 37:3286(A)(1)(c)-(f), (2)(c)-(f), and (3)(d)-(k))