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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:199.1

  • Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2

            Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an agency shall not be required to follow the procedures provided in this Part or the Louisiana Procurement Code for procurement of software and the hardware used to support the software if the alternative procedures to be used by the agency are approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity and the specific procurement is approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

            Acts 2020, No. 273, §1.