2019 House Bill 5197

Senate Roll Call 503: Passed

To establish that a local government may use any electronic or digital file format to reproduce a construction document submitted to and retained by building officials under building permit and related ordinances. The bill revises a law authorizing and regulating electronic retention of government documents. This would allow officials to stop storing large volumes of physical records and instead just keep them in electronic format.

38 Yeas / 0 Nays
Republican (22 Yeas / 0 Nays)
Democrat (16 Yeas / 0 Nays)