SLS 18RS-789 ORIGINAL
2018 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 464
BY SENATOR RISER
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Provides relative to death certificates. (8/1/18)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 40:34(C), relative to death certificates; to provide for electronic registration
3 of death certificate data; to provide for enrollment; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 40:34(C) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
6 ยง34. Vital records forms
7 * * *
8 C. Each coroner or physician who signs a death certificate shall register
9 and use the Louisiana Electronic Event Registration System (LEERS), with the
10 Louisiana Department of Health, state registrar of vital records, on or before
11 January 1, 2019.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 464 Original 2018 Regular Session Riser
Proposed law requires coroners and physicians who sign death certificates to register with
DHH on or before January 1, 2019, and enter death records into LEERS.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 464
SLS 18RS-789 ORIGINAL
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Adds R.S. 40:34(C))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.