SLS 201ES-185 ENGROSSED
2020 First Extraordinary Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 14
BY SENATOR ROBERT MILLS
LIABILITY. Suspends certain provisions of law relative to safety belt evidence. (Item #40)
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To suspend until sixty days after final adjournment of the 2021 Regular Session of the
3 Legislature of Louisiana R.S. 32:295.1(E) relative to the exclusion of evidence of
4 failure to wear a safety belt.
5 WHEREAS, Article III, Section 20 of the Constitution of Louisiana provides that
6 only the legislature may suspend a law; and
7 WHEREAS, R.S. 32:295.1(E) provides that in actions to recover damages arising out
8 of the ownership, common maintenance, or operation of a motor vehicle, failure to wear a
9 safety belt is not admissible evidence of comparative negligence or to mitigate damages; and
10 WHEREAS, substantial revisions to R.S. 32:295.1(E) are required in order to achieve
11 the goals of the Legislature of Louisiana concerning tort reform and lowering motor vehicle
12 insurance premiums; and
13 WHEREAS, the purpose of this Resolution is to allow the Legislature of Louisiana
14 additional opportunity to make necessary revisions to R.S. 32:295.1(E).
15 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana hereby suspends
16 the provisions of R.S. 32:295.1(E).
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this suspension shall become effective upon
18 adoption of this Resolution and shall extend through the sixtieth day after final adjournment
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SLS 201ES-185 ENGROSSED
1 of the 2021 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Carla S. Roberts.
DIGEST
SCR 14 Engrossed 2020 First Extraordinary Session Robert Mills
Effective through the 60th day following the 2021 Regular Session, suspends R.S.
32:295.1(E), which provides that the failure to wear a safety belt in violation of present law
shall not be admitted to mitigate damages in any action to recover damages arising out of
the ownership, common maintenance, or operation of a motor vehicle, and the failure to
wear a safety belt in violation of present law shall not be considered evidence of comparative
negligence or to mitigate damages.
(Suspends R.S. 32:295.1(E))
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