ENROLLED
ACT No. 134
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 203
BY REPRESENTATIVE MAGEE
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 40:50(D), relative to the state registrar of vital records; to require the issuance
3 of a death certificate within a certain time; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 40:50(D) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
6 ยง50. Issuance of death certificates; duties of state registrar
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8 D. After preparation by the funeral director or other person required by law
9 to initiate a death certificate and issuance from the local registrar, the state registrar
10 shall provide the official death certificate to any applicant who meets the
11 requirements of R.S. 40:41 within ten business days after the state registrar has
12 received the applicant's request for the death certificate. The state registrar's
13 provision of the death certificate, to the applicant, shall be deemed timely when it
14 has been mailed via the United States Postal Service, or with a commercial mail
15 service, with a timely commercial mail meter stamp or commercial mail service
16 certificate that is within the ten-business-day period. Any death certificate provided
17 to an applicant outside of the ten business days that is unable to be meter-stamped
18 for United States Postal Service mail delivery or certified for commercial mail
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1 service delivery during the ten-business-day period due to events outside of the state
2 registrar's control, shall be considered timely provided.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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