HLS 18RS-501 ENGROSSED
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 141
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEOPOLD
CORONERS: Provides relative to the qualifications for the office of coroner
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 13:5704(B), relative to coroners; to provide relative to
3 qualifications of coroners; to provide for residency requirements; and to provide for
4 related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 13:5704(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง5704. Qualifications
8 * * *
9 B. The coroner shall be a resident of the parish. However, a licensed
10 physician who is not a resident of the parish but who maintains a owns and practices
11 medicine full-time medical practice at a principal medical office facility in the parish
12 may qualify for and hold the office.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 141 Engrossed 2018 Regular Session Leopold
Abstract: Allows certain non-resident coroners to qualify for office or remain in office.
Present law requires the elected coroner to be a resident of the parish in which he is elected.
However, present law authorizes non-resident licensed physicians to run for office within
the parish if they maintain a full-time medical practice within the parish.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 18RS-501 ENGROSSED
HB NO. 141
Proposed law retains present law except it provides that a non-resident physician must own
and practice medicine full-time in the parish to qualify.
(Amends R.S. 13:5704(B))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Judiciary to the original
bill:
1. Authorize non-resident physicians to qualify and hold office as a coroner in a
parish in which they own a medical office facility and practice medicine full-
time.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.