{
 "citation": "14:87.3",
 "heading": "Prohibited cutting, resection, excision, harvesting, removal, sale, receipt, research,",
 "doc_id": "78691",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78691",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "2022",
 "last_amended_year": "2022",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "E",
   "text": "Any person who violates this Section shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than fifty years, at least ten years of which shall be served without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence, and may, in addition, be required to pay a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars.",
   "los_min": "10Y",
   "los_max": "50Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "W/O BENEFITS (probation or suspension of sentence)",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:87.3\n\n\u00a787.3. Prohibited cutting, resection, excision, harvesting, removal, sale, receipt, research,\ncommerce, or transport of fetal organs, tissues, and body parts; whistleblower\naccount\n\nA. No person may knowingly and for money, including but not limited to fees for\nstorage or handling, any payments for reimbursement, repayments, or compensation, or any\nother consideration:\n\n(1) Buy, sell, receive, or otherwise transfer or acquire a fetal organ or body part\nresulting from an induced abortion.\n\n(2) Transport with the intent to sell or otherwise transfer a fetal organ or body part\nresulting from an induced abortion.\n\n(3) Transport a fetal organ or body part resulting from an induced abortion that has\nbeen acquired by any person via any transaction prohibited by this Section.\n\nB. Repealed by Acts 2022, No. 545, \u00a74.\n\nC. After an induced abortion has been completed, no person shall intentionally cut,\nresection, excise, harvest, or remove any body part, organ, or tissue of the aborted unborn\nchild for any purpose prohibited by this Section, or for sale, commerce, transport, research,\nor profit.\n\nD.(1) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit any transaction related\nto the final disposition of the bodily remains of the aborted human being in accordance with\nstate law, or to prohibit any conduct permitted under state law that is undertaken with any\nof the following purposes:\n\n(a) The purpose of providing knowledge solely to the mother, such as for\npathological or diagnostic purposes.\n\n(b) The purpose of providing knowledge solely to law enforcement officers, such as\nthe case of an autopsy following a feticide.\n\n(2) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit the donation of bodily\nremains from a human embryo or fetus whose death was caused by a natural miscarriage or\nstillbirth, in accordance with the guidelines and prohibitions provided in applicable state and\nfederal law.\n\n(3) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to affect existing federal or state law\nregarding the practice of abortion, or to create or recognize a right to abortion.\n\nE. Any person who violates this Section shall be sentenced to a term of\nimprisonment at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than fifty years, at least ten years\nof which shall be served without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence, and may,\nin addition, be required to pay a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars.\n\nF.(1) The Fetal Organ Whistleblower Account, hereinafter referred to as \"the\naccount\", is hereby created in the state treasury.\n\n(2) The account shall be composed of any monies derived from appropriations by the\nlegislature and any gift, grant, devise, donation, or bequest of monies or properties of any\nnature or description.\n\n(3) An award of one thousand dollars shall be paid out of the account to any person\nwho provides evidence that results in the arrest and indictment of any other person for a\nviolation of this Section. Eligibility for an award pursuant to this Subsection shall be\ndetermined by the district attorney or the attorney general, as appropriate.\n\n(4) All monies deposited in the account shall be used solely to pay awards to persons\nas provided by Paragraph (3) of this Subsection and shall be paid by the state treasurer upon\nwritten order signed by the district attorney or the attorney general, as appropriate, except\nthat monies deposited in the account may be used to pay reasonable costs of administering\nthe account.\n\n(5) The name and other identifying information of any person who is paid an award\npursuant to this Subsection shall remain confidential.\n\nActs 2016, No. 196, \u00a71; Acts 2017, No. 243, \u00a71, eff. June 14, 2017; Acts 2018, No.\n645, \u00a71, eff. June 1, 2018; Acts 2022, No. 545, \u00a74."
}