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LA SB158

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/4/2025

Primary Sponsor

Stewart Cathey

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates the Communities Aligned to Help Educate Youth Fund (CATHEY fund) as a special fund in the state treasury, effective July 1, 2025

  • Requires all revenues from speeding fines generated by electronic enforcement devices (automated speed cameras, red light cameras, mobile speed cameras) collected by local, municipal, or parish governments to be remitted monthly to the state treasury

  • Beginning in Fiscal Year 2026-2027, the legislature shall appropriate all fund monies to parish sheriff's offices based on each parish's share of the state population per the latest federal decennial census

  • Parish sheriff's offices must use fund monies exclusively for juvenile rehabilitation programs in their parish

  • No local ordinance may supersede these provisions

Legislative Description

Dedicates certain revenue for juvenile rehabilitation programs and establishes the Communities Aligned to Help Educate Youth Fund. (7/1/25) (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

FUNDS/FUNDING

Last Action

Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

4/15/2025

Committee Referrals

Finance4/15/2025
Revenue & Fiscal Affairs4/4/2025

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