HOUSE committee amendments technical

Requires local governing bodies to submit proposed precinct or redistricting changes to the parish registrar of voters and clerk of court before adoption. These officials must confirm the ability to conduct elections under the proposed boundaries. If a demographer or GIS is used, data must be shared in specified formats. Registrar must verify full and accurate geographic coverage using current precincts.

Implications:

This bill changes how much advance notice banks must get when someone requests customer financial records through a legal process.

Right now, the law requires 30 business days of notice. This bill changes that to 30 calendar days, making the waiting period shorter and more predictable.

This applies to two things:

1. The affidavit the requesting party must give the bank, showing they served notice to the customer or their lawyer.
2. The minimum notice banks must receive before having to turn over records.

The bill keeps current rules that require the requester to pay the bank for any reasonable costs, like making copies or doing research. If there’s a disagreement over those costs, the bank doesn’t have to provide the records until a court decides what’s fair.

In short, the bill speeds up the process slightly by switching from business days to calendar days, while keeping protections for banks in place.