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Committee approves bill letting notaries request death certificates for low‑value successions
Summary
House Bill 89 was reported favorably to permit certified notaries handling low-value family successions to obtain death certificates from state records when they certify they are processing a succession under the civil-code succession provision cited by the sponsor.
Representative Orgeron presented House Bill 89 to allow certified notaries to request death certificates from state records when they are assisting with low-value family successions handled under Code of Civil Procedure Article 3431 (as cited in the hearing). The sponsor said the change was intended to clean up a statutory gap created when notaries were previously authorized to perform certain low-value successions but not authorized to request the records needed to complete them.
Orgeron said the bill aims to help families after storms and other disasters where heirs cannot afford legal fees and small estates are held in the names of deceased relatives. Representative Egan thanked the sponsor and moved to report the bill favorably. The committee reported HB 89 favorably by voice vote with no objections recorded in the transcript.
