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HB 447 Original 2016 Regular Session Gregory Miller
Abstract: Adds permissible evidence in continuing tutorship hearings and eliminates requirement
of concurrence of coroners.
Present law provides that to establish that a person above the age of fifteen possesses less than two-
thirds of the average mental ability of a normal person of the same age, there must be standard
testing procedures administered by competent persons.
Proposed law expands present law to allow the court to consider other relevant evidence in addition
to standard testing procedures.
Present law requires that in order to continue the tutorship of a person above the age of fifteen, there
must be concurrence of the coroner of the parish of the mentally deficient person's domicile.
Proposed law eliminates the requirement of concurrence of the coroner to continue the tutorship of
a person above the age of fifteen.
(Amends C.C. Art. 355)