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2025 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 158
BY SENATOR CATHEY
FUNDS/FUNDING. Dedicates certain revenue for juvenile rehabilitation programs and
establishes the Communities Aligned to Help Educate Youth Fund. (7/1/25)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 39:100.254, relative to the dedication of revenue; to create the Communities
3 Aligned to Help Educate Youth Fund as a special fund in the state treasury; to
4 dedicate certain revenues in the fund to parish sheriffs for juvenile rehabilitation
5 programs; to provide for the deposit, investment, and use of monies in the fund; to
6 provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 39:100.254 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 ยง100.254. Communities Aligned to Help Educate Youth Fund
10 A. There is hereby established in the state treasury, as a special fund, the
11 Communities Aligned to Help Educate Youth Fund, hereinafter referred to in
12 this Section as the "CATHEY fund" or "fund".
13 B.(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, after
14 compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the
15 Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund,
16 and after a sufficient amount is allocated from that fund to pay all of the
17 obligations secured by the full faith and credit of the state which become due
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1 and payable within any fiscal year, all revenues collected by local, municipal,
2 or parish governments derived from speeding fines generated by electronic
3 enforcement devices during a fiscal year shall be remitted at the end of each
4 month to the state treasury and deposited into the fund.
5 (2) Monies in the fund shall be invested by the treasurer in the same
6 manner as monies in the state general fund, and interest earned on investment
7 of the monies shall be credited to the fund.
8 C.(1) Beginning in Fiscal Year 2026-2027 and each fiscal year thereafter,
9 the legislature shall appropriate all monies in the fund remitted from the prior
10 fiscal year to each parish sheriff's office based on the percentage the population
11 each parish contributes to the whole population of the state as of the latest
12 federal decennial census.
13 (2) Each parish sheriff's office shall use monies received from the fund
14 for juvenile rehabilitation programs in the parish.
15 D. For the purposes of this Section, "electronic enforcement devices"
16 shall mean automated speed enforcement devices, red light traffic cameras, and
17 mobile speed cameras used for the purpose of regulating and enforcing traffic
18 violations in which citations are issued by mail.
19 E. No local ordinance shall supersede the provisions of this Section.
20 Section 2. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2025.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Senate Legislative Services.
The keyword, summary, 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)]
DIGEST
SB 158 Original 2025 Regular Session Cathey
Proposed law creates the Communities Aligned to Help Educate Youth Fund, hereinafter
referred to as the "CATHEY fund" or "fund", as a special fund in the state treasury.
Proposed law dedicates all revenues collected by local, municipal, or parish governments
derived from speeding fines generated by electronic enforcement devices during a fiscal year
into the fund.
Proposed law provides that beginning in Fiscal Year 2026-2027 and each fiscal year
thereafter, the legislature shall appropriate all monies in the fund remitted from the prior
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fiscal year to each parish sheriff's office based on the percentage the population each parish
contributes to the whole population of the state as of the latest federal decennial census.
Proposed law requires each parish sheriff's office to use monies received from the fund for
juvenile rehabilitation programs in the parish.
Proposed law defines "electronic enforcement devices" as automated speed enforcement
devices, red light traffic cameras, and mobile speed cameras used for the purpose of
regulating and enforcing traffic violations in which citations are issued by mail.
Proposed law provides that no local ordinance shall supersede the provisions of proposed
law.
Effective July 1, 2025.
(Adds R.S. 39:100.254)
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