2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 381
BY SENATOR REESE
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 29:291, relative to military, naval, and veterans' affairs; to
3 provide relative to recordation of birth certificates of children born to armed forces
4 members; to provide relative to the fee for recordation of birth certificates; to provide
5 relative to remittance of birth certificates to the Louisiana Bureau of Vital Records
6 and Statistics; and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 29:291 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง291. Recordation of birth certificates of children born to armed forces members
10 The clerks of court of the several parishes and the register of conveyances of
11 the parish of Orleans shall maintain a special book to be provided by the parish in
12 which they shall record and alphabetically index, upon request, the birth certificate
13 of a child born outside the continental United States to any member of the armed
14 services of the United States of America whose parents were residents of Louisiana
15 at the time the child was born. The fee for recording shall not exceed one dollar. It
16 shall not be necessary to retain the original certificate tendered for registration in the
17 archives of the office. The clerks of court shall remit birth certificates filed
18 pursuant to this Section to the Louisiana Bureau of Vital Records and Statistics.
ACT No. 239
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1 A certified copy of the original birth record issued by proper registration
2 authority in the city or country of birth, containing the name of the parents, name of
3 child, race, place and date of birth and sex, shall be accepted in order to effect
4 registry.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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