Louisiana has become the most recent state to enact the 2010 Amendments to UCC Article 9. The Governor signed House Bill 369 on Sunday, June 3, 2012. Enacting the Alternative A “only if” approach for individual debtor name sufficiency in Section 9-503(a)(4) and adopts the uniform effective date of July 1, 2013. This new law will omit changes to the safe harbor forms in Section 9-521. Louisiana will instead retain its current non-uniform version of Section 9-521 that will require filing offices to accept forms approved by the Secretary of State.
Louisiana – Enacts 2010 UCC Article 9 amendments