The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Margaret M. Corley.
DIGEST
SB 57 Original 2019 Regular Session Walsworth
Present law provides that the microfilm section of the records management program of the division
of archives, records management, and history (division) within the Department of State will be the
centralized microfilm center for the state.
Proposed law provides for the removal of the term microfilming to reflect other document
preservation systems provided by the imaging and preservation services section of the records
management program of the division.
Present law requires all state agencies to obtain division approval for a conversion contract with any
other conversion vendor.
Proposed law retains present law and further requires all state agencies to obtain division approval
for the purchase of any conversion system.
Present law provides that the requirements of present law will not be applicable to any state agency
where it can be demonstrated to be more economically feasible to continue the microfilming within
the agency.
Proposed law removes the exemption.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 44:415)