RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 212 (SB 104) 2020 Regular Session Milligan
Prior law required 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.
New law requires that board meetings be at least three times a year.
Prior law authorized each board to establish policies and rules setting and charging admission
and tour fees and user or rental fees.
New 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, new 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.
New 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 paintings, 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, new 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, new
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.
Prior law provided 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.
New law removes these provisions.
New law provides that museum board members serving on a particular board on the effective
date of new law may serve the remainder of their unexpired term.
New law provides that new law provisions relative to the Military Hall of Fame and Museum
will not become effective if the Act which originated as 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 See Act.
(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))