Repeals and amends existing law regarding retention and storage of historical municipal records using photographic and digital media.

This legislation makes the following changes to city records retention laws. (1) Provides a definition for "historical records" and requires such records to be retained in perpetuity by the city or transferred to the State Archives. (2) Repeals Idaho Code 50-909 and incorporates the provisions of that section concerning retention of records using photographic or digital media into Idaho Code 50-907. (3) Cities are authorized to retain permanent records using photographic or digital media, and to destroy paper originals of non-historical records preserved on photographic or digital media. (4)Provisionsconcerningdestructionofrecordsthathavemettheirrequiredretentionperiodmatch the current law, except for language clarifying that historical records cannot be destroyed.