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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 1031
BY REPRESENTATIVE WHITE
SUITS AGAINST ST/CLAIMS: Provides with respect to prescriptive period
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 49:112, relative to claims against the state; to prohibit division2
of administration from allowing certain claims; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 49:112 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 5
ยง112. Claims against state prescribe in ten years6
No claim or debt against the state shall be allowed by the state auditor7
division of administration or paid by the state treasurer after the lapse of ten years8
from the happening of the event or of the facts upon which any suit is founded or9
judgment rendered or of the execution of the contract under which the claim is made.10
No interruption or suspension whatsoever of this prescription shall be allowed. The11
provisions of this Section shall not apply to the claims, or the judgment rendered12
thereon, listed in Section 2 of Act No. 110 of 1946.13
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
White HB No. 1031
Abstract: The division of administration, rather than the state auditor, is prohibited from
allowing certain claims against the state.
Present law prohibits the state auditor from allowing certain claims against the state after the
lapse of ten years following certain events.
Proposed law prohibits the division of administration, rather than the state auditor, from
allowing certain claims against the state after the lapse of ten years following certain events.
(Amends R.S. 49:112)