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 Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 976, 977(C) (introductory paragraph) and (1), 978(B) (1) and (3), 979, 980(C) and (D), 984(C), 988, 989, and 992 and to enact Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 894.5, 977(C) (3), 984(D), 986(C), and 996, relative to expungement; to provide for a time limitation for an expungement for an arrest for operating a vehicle while intoxicated involving the use of a pretrial diversion program; to provide for the eligibility to expunge certain convictions; to prohibit the expungement of a record of arrest and conviction for misdemeanor stalking; to provide with respect to the expungement of arrest and conviction records of certain felony convictions of violations of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act; to provide for the service of expungement motions through United States mail; to provide with respect to time periods for objecting to a motion to expunge records; to amend procedures involving the expungement of records for violations of the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated; to provide with respect to the forms required for expungements; to provide for the amendment of forms to include names of the appropriate court ordering the expungement of records; to amend expungement forms to provide a fee waiver for juvenile drug court participants; to provide forms for expungement by redaction; to provide forms for submission of data to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles, regarding driving while intoxicated offenses; to provide for applicability; to provide for time limitations to make an objection to an expungement and the setting of a contradictory hearing regarding an objection; and to provide for related matters.
