Louisiana HB1246 mandates that individuals arrested for operating while impaired must be held for at least eight hours if their blood alcohol.
Louisiana HB1246, known as "Jada's Law," requires custodial law enforcement agencies to detain individuals arrested for operating while impaired for a minimum of eight hours if their blood alcohol concentration is above the legal limit. The legal limit is defined as 0.08 percent for offenses under R.S. 14:98 and 0.02 percent for offenses under R.S. 14:98.6. The law allows for holding individuals for longer if a safe release is not feasible. It does not affect the entitlement to bail or the court's authority to impose additional release conditions.
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