Did Louisiana repeal its digital assets law? (RUFADAA, repealed 2024)

Yes. Louisiana's fiduciary-access-to-digital-assets chapter was repealed effective 1 July 2024, and most published fifty-state tables have not caught up.

This is general information about what a statute says. It is not legal advice, and Louisiana is a civil-law jurisdiction whose succession law does not map neatly onto the other forty-nine states. Talk to a Louisiana attorney about an actual estate.

What the law used to be

In 2016 Louisiana enacted House Bill 1118, which — in the enrolled bill's own words — was an act "To enact Chapter 44 of Title 51 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be comprised of R.S. 51:2701 through 2720, relative to fiduciaries and the digital property of decedents and other certain persons … to specify for a user's direction of disclosure to override certain contrary provisions; to provide for the rights of certain persons with respect to terms-of-service agreements". That is the shape of the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA), the model law we describe in Q7 and Q8, and it is the citation nearly every fifty-state comparison on the web still gives for Louisiana.

Source, fetched by us on 8 August 2026: the enrolled text of 2016 House Bill 1118 on the Louisiana State Legislature's own site, legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=999125 (PDF, 21 pages).

What it says now

Look up R.S. 51:2701 — the short-title section of that same chapter — in the Louisiana State Legislature's current statute lookup today, and the entire section reads:

§2701. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 312, §2, eff. July 1, 2024.

We fetched that ourselves on 8 August 2026. Sections 2708, 2712, 2716 and 2720 of the same range return no result at all.

There is no permanent link we can give you for that, and it is worth explaining why rather than handing you a URL that will not work. The Louisiana Legislature's statute lookup at legis.la.gov/legis/LawSearch.aspx is a form that posts back to itself; it does not put the citation in the address bar, so every section of the Louisiana Revised Statutes shares one URL. To reproduce what we saw: open that page, choose "Revised Statutes" as the law body, enter 51 and 2701 in the two number boxes, and press View.

Why this matters more than a citation change usually would

The repealed chapter was a full RUFADAA enactment. The best evidence of what replaced it points to something considerably narrower — and narrower in ways that change the practical answer to questions we answer elsewhere on this site.

Our research pass found the surviving Louisiana provision on this subject at La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3191, the article on a succession representative's general duties, which gives a succession representative "the power and authority to take control of, handle, conduct, continue, distribute, or terminate any digital account of the decedent" and puts a thirty-day turnover duty on custodians once letters have issued. We fetched that text once and could not reproduce the fetch on a second attempt, so we are reporting it as a single unconfirmed reading rather than as a verified citation.

If that reading is right, three things that are true elsewhere may not be true in Louisiana:

• The three-tier priority rule may not apply. RUFADAA's defining feature is that a direction given through a platform's own online tool — Google's Inactive Account Manager, Meta's Legacy Contact — overrides a contrary instruction in a will, which is the point of Q8. We found no online-tool tier in the surviving provision.
• It may reach fewer fiduciaries. The provision we found addresses succession representatives. RUFADAA covers agents under a power of attorney, trustees and guardians too — see Q40.
• The custodian-immunity framework is gone with the chapter. Immunity provisions are a large part of why custodians comply at all, and we could not find a replacement.

What we could not verify, stated plainly

• The text, bill number, author or full contents of Acts 2024, No. 312. We have the repeal citation because the statute's own annotation states it, and that annotation is primary-source evidence of the Act's effect. We could not retrieve the Act itself — the Legislature's act and bill-history pages are session-driven in a way we did not solve. One search result asserted that Act 312 of the 2024 Regular Session is a health-insurance bill, which conflicts with the repeal annotation and which we therefore do not repeat as fact. Do not cite an Act 312 bill number or sponsor on our say-so.
• Whether every section of the old 2701–2720 range was repealed by that one Act. We checked five sections, not all twenty. R.S. 51:2704 carries an unrelated 1999 repeal note, which suggests the 2016 chapter did not fill the number range contiguously.
• La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3191 as the current governing citation. One successful fetch, not reproduced. Treat it as a lead to check, not as a citation to rely on.

If you are a Louisiana attorney and can settle any of these, we would genuinely like to be told: open an issue and we will publish the correction with a date.

Not legal advice. Statutes change, and this one changed recently enough that most published summaries are still wrong.

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