The legislative instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Matt DeVille.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP ORT DIGEST
SB 104 2020 Regular Session Milligan
Keyword and summary of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
MUSEUMS. Provides for board membership and authority of certain state museums. (gov sig)
Report adopts House amendments to:
1. Provide that proposed law provisions relative to governance and operation of the
Military Hall of Fame and Museum will only become effective if HB 213 of the 2020
Regular Session, which removes the museum from the Department of State, is
enacted into law.
Report amends the bill to:
1. Make a technical change regarding the composition of the governing board of the
Mansfield Female College Museum.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Present law requires that the Advisory Board of the Old State Capitol (Old State Capitol
Museum), the Regional Museum Governing Board of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum
(State Exhibit Museum), the governing boards of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum (State
Cotton Museum), the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum (Oil & Gas Museum), the
Louisiana Delta Music Museum (Delta Music Museum), the Tioga Heritage Park and
Museum (Tioga Heritage Park Museum), the Mansfield Female College Museum (Mansfield
Female College Museum), the Louisiana Military Hall of Fame and Museum (Military Hall
of Fame Museum), and the Germantown Colony Museum (Germantown Colony Museum)
meet at least once each quarter.
Proposed law requires that board meetings be at least three times a year.
Present law authorizes each board to establish policies and rules setting and charging
admission and tour fees and user or rental fees.
Proposed law removes this individual board authority and authorizes the secretary of state to adopt policies, rules, and regulations for museum operations in accordance with the
Administrative Procedure Act.
As to the State Exhibit Museum, the State Cotton Museum, the Oil & Gas Museum, the
Delta Music Museum, the Tioga Heritage Park Museum, and the Mansfield Female College
Museum, proposed law removes authority for each to determine the term and compensation
of museum board advisors; removes authority to employ a museum chief administrative
officer and a museum director.
Proposed law removes specific authority for the Regional Museum Governing Board of the
Louisiana State Exhibit Museum to contract with appraisers, buying agents, designers,
engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction, and financial experts but provides authority
to contract with consulting experts for the conservation of painting, books, papers, and other
decorative arts for the accession and deaccession of artifacts and for the accreditation of
museum.
As to the State Cotton Museum and the Oil & Gas Museum, proposed law removes specific
authority to contract with appraisers, buying agents, designers, engineers, attorneys,
accountants, construction, and financial experts.
As to the Delta Music Museum, Tioga Heritage Park Museum, the Mansfield Female College
Museum, the Military Hall of Fame Museum, and the Germantown Colony Museum,
proposed law removes specific authority to contract with consulting experts in fields of
museum administration and conservation of artifacts, audio and video recordings, motion
picture films, books and papers and decorative arts, and with appraisers, buying agents,
designers, engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction, and financial experts.
Present law provides that nothing in the transfer of the State Exhibit Museum, State Cotton
Museum, the Oil & Gas Museum, the Delta Music Museum, Tioga Heritage Park Museum,
the Mansfield Female College Museum, the Military Hall of Fame Museum, and the
Germantown Colony Museum to the Dept. of State (department) under the Executive
Reorganization Act, is to authorize monies, property, or personnel budgeted or assigned to
each museum board to be transferred or used by the department without prior board approval.
Proposed law removes these provisions.
Proposed law provides that museum board members serving on a particular board on the
effective date of proposed law may serve the remainder of their unexpired term.
Proposed law provides that proposed law provisions relative to the Military Hall of Fame and
Museum will not become effective if HB 213 of the 2020 R.S., which removes the Military
Hall of Fame and Museum from the jurisdiction of the department, becomes effective.
Effective upon signature of governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action. (Amends R.S. 25: 374(A)(1), 379.2(B) and (C)(3), 379.3(C), 380.1(C)(2) and (D), 380.2(B)
and (C), 380.22(C) and (D), 380.23(B) and(C), 380.52(C) and (E), 380.53(B) and (C),
380.82(C) and (E), 380.83(B) and(C), 380.92(C) and (E), 380.93(B) and(C), 380.132(C),
380.133(B) and (C), 380.152(C) and (E), and 380.153(B) and (C), and R.S. 36:801.6, 801.7,
801.9, 801.12, 801.15, 801.16, 801.20, and 801.22; Adds R.S. 25:379.7, 380.6, 380.27,
380.57, 380.87, 380.97, 380.137, and 380.157; Repeals R.S. 25:379.2(C)(4))