ENROLLED
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Regular Session, 2013
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 107
BY REPRESENTATIVE JAY MORRIS
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To authorize and direct the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make
recommendations relative to the feasibility of creating a central database for
testaments and to report its findings and recommendations to the Louisiana
Legislature no later than January 1, 2015.
WHEREAS, executing a testament is one of the most important aspects of estate
planning; and
WHEREAS, a testament is crucial to the orderly handling of a person's estate, not
only for financial matters, but also for personal matters such as tutorship and the caring for
the family of the testator; and
WHEREAS, properly executed testaments are occasionally misplaced or even
improperly concealed or destroyed in order to subvert the decisions of the testator as to his
estate; and
WHEREAS, in order to alert interested parties that a testament has been executed and
to deter the improper concealment or destruction of a testament, it may be beneficial to
establish a voluntary central database to store testaments, the contents of a testament, or
information noting the existence of a testament; and
WHEREAS, a central database could be created within the office of the secretary of
state or the clerk of court for the parish in which the testator is domiciled.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
authorize and direct the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations
relative to the feasibility of creating a central database for testaments and that it report its
findings and recommendations to the Louisiana Legislature no later than January 1, 2015. ENROLLEDHCR NO. 107
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to the director of the Louisiana State Law Institute.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE