RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 46 (SB 57) 2019 Regular Session Walsworth
Prior law provided 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.
New 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.
Prior law required all state agencies to obtain division approval for a conversion contract
with any other conversion vendor.
New law retains prior law and further requires all state agencies to obtain division approval
for the purchase of any conversion system.
Prior law provided that the requirements of prior 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.
New law removes the exemption.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 44:415)