GREEN SHEET REDIGEST
HB 150 2016 Regular Session Talbot
(KEYWORD, SUMMARY, AND DIGEST as amended by Senate committee
amendments)
SUCCESSION/FORCED HEIRS: Provides relative to children conceived through
gamete donation
DIGEST
Present law provides that as a juridical person, an embryo or child born as a result of in vitro
fertilization and in vitro fertilization ovum donation does not retain any inheritance rights
from the in vitro fertilization patients.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that a child conceived by gametes donated
shall not be a forced heir of or inherit from the individual donors of the gametes used in the
in vitro fertilization process, unless the donor would be a person from whom the child could
inherit under existing law notwithstanding the in vitro fertilization process.
(Amends R.S. 9:133; adds C.C. Art. 1493.1)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Civil Law and
Procedure to the original bill:
1. Provides an exception to proposed law when the donor is a person from whom
the child could inherit under present law.
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to the engrossed
bill
1. Adds an exception to proposed law when the donor is a person of the second
degree from whom the child could inherit under present law.
2. Makes technical changes.
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Prepared by Benjamin A. Huxen, II.