Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:15.12

  • 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
  • Commission: means the Louisiana Cybersecurity Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:15.12

            As used in this Part, these terms shall have the following meanings:

            (1) “Commission” means the Louisiana Cybersecurity Commission.

            (2) “Critical infrastructure sectors” includes the following sectors which the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the federal Department of Homeland Security has identified as critical:

            (a) Chemical.

            (b) Commercial facilities.

            (c) Communications.

            (d) Critical manufacturing.

            (e) Dams.

            (f) Defense industrial base.

            (g) Emergency services.

            (h) Energy.

            (i) Financial services.

            (j) Food and agriculture.

            (k) Government facilities.

            (l) Healthcare and public health.

            (m) Information technology.

            (n) Nuclear reactors, materials, and waste.

            (o) Transportation systems.

            (p) Water and wastewater systems.

            (q) Any other sector which the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency deems to be critical in the future.

            Acts 2023, No. 245, §2.