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HB 841 Original 2020 Regular Session Duplessis
Abstract: Authorizes service of pleadings or orders setting a court date to be made by email.
Present law provides that service of a pleading or order that sets a court date shall be made by
registered or certified mail, by the sheriff, or by actual delivery by a commercial courier.
Proposed law further authorizes service by email when the counsel of record or, if there is no counsel
of record, the adverse party files an email address into the record expressly designated in a pleading
or other writing for receipt of electronic service. Requires that email service be made by the clerk
of court.
(Amends C.C.P. Art. 1313(C))