2019 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 57
BY SENATOR WALSWORTH
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 44:415, relative to the records management program at the
3 division of archives, records management, and history within the Department of
4 State; to provide for the centralized document conversion center for the state; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 44:415 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง415. Centralized microfilm service imaging and preservation services
9 The microfilm imaging and preservation services section of the records
10 management program of the division shall be the centralized microfilm document
11 conversion center for the state. All state agencies lacking existing internally
12 established microfilming paper conversion systems of their own, and those state
13 agencies whose equipment or facilities are no longer adequate to meet the agency's
14 need, shall contract with the division for microfilming conversion services or shall
15 obtain division approval for any such a conversion contract with any other vendor
16 or purchase of any other conversion system. All microfilming records produced
17 by state agency microfilming conversion systems shall comply with standards
18 established by the division in accordance with R.S. 44:405(A)(3). This provision
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1 shall not be applicable to any state agency where it can be demonstrated to be more
2 economically feasible to continue the microfilming within the agency.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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