It appears that this punishment is not associated with the registry, but is a criminal penalty in addition to that prescribed by the statute of conviction. This means that it can’t be applied retroactively. So society will likely see no applications for at least 10 years. That is only when those convicted and punished under the new law are released. I also wonder how this would not violate equal protection requirements. That is unless female offenders are required to get a tubal ligation.

Note that a vasectomy does not reduce sex drives. So if the legislators had pontificated about protecting children, even any imaginary benefit could not be had. These legislators are simply nuts.

@RM

According to the registry Kings and Queens in charge, NOTHING is punishment on the registry, because they say so. With a wave of the hand, like royalty, they make it happen. Like Picard in Star Trek, they say, “Make it so number one”.
There is no such thing as a witch, but back in the day, they burned people at the stake for being one. They said if you live, you are a witch, if you die, you were innocent. Well, all of them died innocent of being a witch but they just kept on burning people.

[Moderator’s note: the bill text states that it is punishment].

Rep. Delisha Boyd must surely know that African-American men are forced to register as sexual offenders at a disproportionately high rate in Louisiana and that her bill, should it pass, would result in the forced sterilization of African-American men. Although the bill, should it become law, would almost certainly be declared unconstitutional as violative of the United States Constitution’s Eight Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment as forced sterilization is a form of mutilation, Representative Delisha Boyd should be absolutely ashamed at her sponsorship of this bill. She claims to fight for the rights of African-Americans when this bill would result in state-sanctioned eugenics to reduce the African-American population in Louisiana.