Bill > HB269

This bill amends the Code of Criminal Procedure and Louisiana Revised Statutes to address the crime of simple escape while participating in a home incarceration program. Key provisions include: 1. Establishing that the venue for a violation of R.S. 14:110 (simple escape) can be either the parish of the court that ordered the home incarceration or the parish where any act or element of the violation occurred. 2. Adding the intentional alteration, destruction, removal, or disabling of electronic monitoring equipment while participating in a home incarceration program as an additional element of the crime of simple escape. 3. Increasing the potential sentence for a person participating in a home incarceration program who violates the provisions related to electronic monitoring equipment, specifying that the sentence shall be imprisonment with or without hard labor for not less than six months nor more than five years, and that the sentence shall not run concurrently with any other sentence. 4. Expanding the applicability of the simple escape statute to all penal, correctional, rehabilitational, and work release centers, as well as any and all prison facilities under the control of law enforcement of the respective parishes.