Judiciary B Committee, Louisiana State Senate

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Function

Legislative instruments and other matter referred to this committee shall encompass the following subject matter:

Administration of criminal justice, generally
Attorney General, District Attorneys, and prosecutors in general, including compensation, expenses, personnel, facilities, and the like, except retirement matters
Civil Code and Civil Code Ancillaries, generally, including without limitation, matters affecting persons generally, marriage, divorce, and matters of family law, tutorship, and curatorship, things generally, use and usufruct, servitudes, successions, donations, obligations generally, extinction of obligations, delicts and quasi delicts, matrimonial agreements, sales and leases, and prescriptions
Civil defense and disaster programs
Clerks of court and records of the courts
Code of Civil Procedure, and civil procedure generally
Code of Criminal Procedure and criminal procedure
Controlled dangerous substance law and procedure
Criminal law
Department of Corrections
Holidays and celebrations
Juvenile Code
Law enforcement generally, including the Department of Public Safety and state police
Miscellaneous matters not covered by other standing committees
Municipal and Parish Courts, Mayor's Courts and Justice of the Peace Court's
National Guard, Code of Military Justice, and the Adjutant General
Notaries public and their record
Penal and Correctional institutions, except for agribusiness programs, and juvenile and adult rehabilitation
Proposed amendments to the state constitution not specificially vested, as to subject matter, in another committee
Questions of constitutional rights
Regulations and sale of intoxicating liquors
Rules of civil law evidence
Rules of criminal evidence
Sheriffs generally,except matters affecting sheriffs as ex officio tax collectors
State boundary lines
Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, District Courts, Family Courts, and Juvenile Courts, jurisdiction of said courts, and judges generally, including compensation, expenses, personnel, facilities, and the like, except retirement matters
Traffic offenses and procedure
Trust Code
Weapons and explosives