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Louisiana's Drug Courts: 2016

2016

ACT No. 67

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.

ACT No. 499

AN ACT To amend and reenact RS. 15:1087 and Children's Code Arts. 815, 898, 900(A), and 1509.1(A) and (C) and to enact Part V-A of Chapter 7 of Title 15 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be comprised of R.S. 15:931 through 945, relative to juvenile justice; to provide for data compilation and reporting; to provide for accountability and cost effectiveness; to provide for program evaluation and funding; to provide for certain periods of detention in juvenile facilities under certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters.

ACT No. 617

AN ACT To amend and reenact Children's Code Articles 412(C), 905, and 906, and R.S. 15:905(B), and to enact Children's Code Articles 412(D) (12) and 898(D) and (E), and Part III of Code Title XIV of Chapter 1 of Title 15 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be comprised of R.S. 15:186.1 through 186.6, relative to juvenile justice; to provide for the release of records; to provide for costs; to provide for presumptions of indigence; to provide for hearings; to provide for legal representation of certain juveniles; to create the Safe Return Program; to provide for data collection and reporting; to provide for standards of representation; to create the Safe Return Representation Program fund; to provide for access to counsel; to provide relative to the duration of a disposition based on a felony- grade adjudication; and to provide for related matters.