RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 115 (HB 17) 2017 Regular Session Terry Brown
New law, with respect to securities law, authorizes the disclosure of certain account
information of a decedent by a dealer to a representative of, or attorney for, the decedent's
estate upon receipt of written notice of the decedent's death and satisfactory evidence of the
representative's authority to represent the estate.
New law clarifies that satisfactory evidence of such a representative's authority to represent
the estate may include an affidavit executed by that representative.
Effective August 1, 2017.
(Adds R.S. 51:703(K))