SCASB259 539 2098 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS Regular Session ENROLLEDAmendmentsproposedbySenateCommitteeonJudiciaryBtoOriginalSenateBillNo.259 SENATEby BILLSenator Barrow AMENDMENT NO.

2591 BYOn SENATORSpage BARROW,1, ABRAHAM,line BARTHELEMY,10, CARTER,after DUPLESSIS,"office" HENRY,delete JACKSON-ANDREWS,"is JENKINS,authorized LUNEAU,to" MIZELL,and PRICE,insert SELDERS"may" ANDAMENDMENT WHEATNO. AN ACT To enactR.S.

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to authorize the creation of a statewide portal to allow an online application for a protective order;

to provide relative to a petition for a temporary restraining order;

and to provide for related matters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:

Section 1.

R.S.

46:2136.2(H) is hereby enacted to read as follows:

§2136.2.

Louisiana Protective Order Registry;

statewide portal * * * H.

The judicial administrator's office may develop and implement a statewide portalthatallows petitioners to file an online petition requestingany protectiveorderauthorizedbythisPart.NotwithstandinganyprovisionsofR.S.

46:2134(D),any petition for a protectiveorder filed through a statewide portal shall require an affirmation signed and dated by electronic means by the petitioner that the facts and circumstances contained in the petition are true and correct to the best knowledge, information, and belief of the petitioner, under penalty of perjury pursuant to R.S.

14:123.

The affirmation shall be made before a witness who shall sign his name electronically.

PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA APPROVED:

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Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;

words in boldface type and underscored are additions.