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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 229
BY SENATOR MARTINY
EVIDENCE. Provides relative to self-authentication. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact Code of Evidence Art. 902(1), relative to self-authentication; to2
provide relative to electronically generated documents under seal; and to provide for3
related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. Code of Evidence Art. 902(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read6
as follows: 7
Art. 902. Self-authentication8
Extrinsic evidence of authenticity as a condition precedent to admissibility9
is not required with respect to the following:10
(1) Domestic public documents under seal. A document bearing a seal,11
including electronically generated documents logically associated with12
electronically generated seals, purporting to be that of the United States, or of any13
state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession thereof, or the Panama14
Canal Zone, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or of a political subdivision,15
department, officer, or agency thereof, and a signature purporting to be an attestation16
or execution.17 SB NO. 229
SLS 10RS-767 ORIGINAL
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
Present law contains no provision relative to the self-authentication of electronically
generated documents.
Proposed law provides that electronically generated documents that are associated with
electronically generated seals are included in the provision relative to domestic public
documents under seal.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends Code of Evidence Art. 902(1))