BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law six bills aimed at helping domestic violence victims in a state that leads the nation in domestic abuse deaths.
The bills:
-Make domestic abuse one of the grounds for immediate divorce in Louisiana.
-Ban an abuser under a protective order from possessing a firearm and those convicted of domestic abuse battery from possessing a gun for a decade.
-Classifies a conviction on the charge of domestic abuse-aggravated assault as a crime of violence, reducing eligibility for parole or probation.
-Expedites protective order filings.
-Allows additional damage awards in lawsuits filed by domestic abuse victims.
-Adds new restrictions to bail authorizations in domestic abuse situations.
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Senate Bills 291 and 292 and House Bills 747, 750, 753 and 1142 can be found at www.legis.la.gov
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