After numerous arguments arose in response to House Bill 195, which outlawed cash transactions by secondhand goods dealers for resale, the legislation’s co-author Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, said the bill was “broader than it was month.”
The bill also defines “junk” as “any property or material commonly known as tightened.”
The primary goal of the bill was to curtail scrap metal theft and sale, he said.
Seabaugh explained that the bill was “an attempt to curb theft and make it harder for the thieves to make money off of what they