The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Hanna Gettys.
DIGEST
SB 61 Engrossed 2024 Regular Session Foil
Present law (C.C. Arts. 354-362) provides for the continuing or permanent tutorship for certain
children with intellectual disabilities or mental deficiencies.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 354) provides for either a full or limited continuing tutorship for certain
children with disabilities.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 355) provides for the additional applicability of full or limited continuing
tutorship to unemancipated minors above the age of 15 who possess less than two-thirds of the
adaptive functioning of a person of the same age with average adaptive functioning.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 356) clarifies that full and limited continuing tutorship does not apply to
persons over the age of majority.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 357) specifies applicability of both full and limited continuing tutorships.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 358) provides for the authority, privileges, and duties of tutors and
undertutors for full continuing tutorship.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 358.1) provides for the authority, privileges, and duties of tutors and
undertutors for limited continuing tutorship in accordance with the decree of tutorship.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 358.2) provides for the termination of full and limited continuing tutorships.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 359) restricts the legal capacity of a person under full continuing tutorship
to that of an unemancipated minor or any lesser capacity as provided in the decree of tutorship.
Proposed law further provides for the restriction of legal capacity of a person under limited
continuing tutorship to that provided in the decree.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 360) makes technical conforming amendments.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 361) makes technical conforming amendments.
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 362) makes technical conforming amendments.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends C.C. Arts. 354-362)