HLS 18RS-166 ENGROSSED
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 16
BY REPRESENTATIVES DANAHAY AND DW IGHT
EVIDENCE: Provides relative to taking judicial notice of statutes
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact Code of Civil Procedure Article 1392, relative to proof of statutes; to
3 provide for the taking of judicial notice of statutes; and to provide for related matters.
4Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. Code of Civil Procedure Article 1392 is hereby amended and reenacted
6to read as follows:
7 Art. 1392. Proof of statutes
8 Printed books or pamphlets purporting on their face to be the session or other
9 statutes of any of the United States, or the territories thereof, or of any foreign
10 jurisdiction, and to have been printed and published by the authority of any such
11 state, territory or foreign jurisdiction, or proved to be commonly recognized in its
12 courts, shall be received in the courts of this state as prima facie evidence of such
13 statutes. The court shall take judicial notice of the laws of the United States, of every
14 other state, territory, and other jurisdiction of the United States as provided by Code
15 of Evidence Article 202.
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are additions. HLS 18RS-166 ENGROSSED
HB NO. 16
DIGEST
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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 16 Engrossed 2018 Regular Session Danahay
Abstract: Provides that the court shall take judicial notice of the laws of the United States,
of every other state, territory, and other jurisdiction of the United States.
Present law (C.E. Art. 202(A)) provides that a court shall take judicial notice of the laws of
the United States, of every state, territory, and other jurisdiction of the United States, and of
the ordinances enacted by any political subdivision within the court's territorial jurisdiction
whenever certified copies of the ordinances have been filed with the clerk of that court.
Present law (C.C.P. Art. 1392) provides that printed books or pamphlets purporting on their
face to be the statutes of any of the United States, or the territories thereof, or of any foreign
jurisdiction, and either printed and published by the authority of any such state, territory or
foreign jurisdiction, or proved to be commonly recognized in its courts, shall be received in
the courts of this state as prima facie evidence of such statutes.
Proposed law (C.C.P. Art. 1392) deletes the requirement of submitting printed books or
pamphlets in order for the court to recognize such statutes, and provides that the court shall
take judicial notice of the laws of the United States, of every other state, territory, and other
jurisdiction of the United States pursuant to existing law C.E. Art. 202.
(Amends C.C.P. Art. 1392)
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