APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2009-2010
AN ACT Making appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the executive branch of state government, pensions, public schools, public roads, public charities, and state institutions and providing with respect to the expenditure of said appropriations.
AN ACT To appropriate funds to defray the expenses of the Louisiana Judiciary, including the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, District Courts, Criminal District Court of Orleans Parish, and other courts; and to provide for related matters.
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 13:5304(B) (3) (f), R.S. 15:574.4.1(B) and Code of Criminal Procedure Article 900 (A) (6) (a) and (b) and to enact R.S. 15:574.4.1 (A) (6) and (J) and Code of Criminal Procedure Article 900(A) (6) (c), relative to the drug division probation program; to authorize the court to order that a defendant who has been placed on probation by the drug division probation program, and who has had his probation revoked for a technical violation, be committed to the custody of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and be required to serve in the intensive incarceration program; to provide for the period of time the defendant may be sentenced to intensive incarceration; to provide that upon successful completion of intensive incarceration the defendant shall return to active, supervised probation with the drug division probation program; to provide for applicability; to provide for resentencing when a defendant is denied entry into the intensive incarceration program; and to provide for related matters.
AN ACT To enact R.S. 13:587.4 and 1344, relative to specialized divisions or sections of state district courts; to authorize any district court by vote of the judges to adopt specialized divisions or sections having specified subject matter jurisdiction; to authorize a division or section to provide for an expedited docket for violent crimes involving a dangerous weapon or homicides; to create a homicide section in the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans; to authorize the district attorney's office to request an expedited docket for cases involving crimes of violence committed with a dangerous weapon and homicides; to provide for assignment of a judge to a Homicide Section of the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans; to provide for cases to be assigned to a homicide section; to authorize the judges en banc to assign other crimes committed using a firearm to the homicide section; to provide for transfer of cases; to provide for expedited handling of pretrial writs and appeals from the homicide section; and to provide for related matters.
