Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5109.1 – A. No settlement agreement of a claim against the state, a state agency, a political subdivision, or any employee or officer of the state, a state agency, or a political subdivision
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5109.1
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- political subdivision: means :
(1) Any parish, municipality, special district, school board, sheriff, public board, institution, department, commission, district, corporation, agency, authority, or an agency or subdivision of any of these, and other public or governmental body of any kind which is not a state agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- state agency: means any board, commission, department, agency, special district, authority, or other entity of the state and, as used in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102
A. No settlement agreement of a claim against the state, a state agency, a political subdivision, or any employee or officer of the state, a state agency, or a political subdivision shall contain a provision prohibiting the disclosure by the claimant of the terms of or the facts associated with the underlying claim of the settlement agreement when the underlying claim is based on an allegation of sexual harassment or sexual assault of the claimant and public funds are paid, in whole or in part, as satisfaction of the terms of the settlement agreement.
B.(1) “Sexual assault” means any nonconsensual sexual contact including but not limited to any act provided in La. Rev. Stat. 15:541(24) or obscenity as provided by La. Rev. Stat. 14:106.
(2) “Sexual harassment” means unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, physical, or inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature when the conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment or the holding of office, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.
Acts 2019, No. 35, §1.