Whenever a plea of guilty to a felony or misdemeanor charge is accepted from any defendant who is sentenced upon said plea, the judge shall cause the entire proceeding in connection with such plea and sentencing, including questions, answers, statements made by the defendant and his attorney, if any, the prosecuting attorney and the judge to be recorded by an electronic recording device. The court may in its discretion also require the entire proceeding be recorded by the court reporter in shorthand or by stenographic notation.

If a transcription of the recorded matters has not been prepared, certified and filed in the criminal proceeding, the electronic recording of all oral matters, together with a log denoting the individuals recorded and the meter location of crucial events, shall be maintained as a court record for ten years in all misdemeanors or fifty-five years in all felony cases.

Whenever the record of the proceeding is transcribed it shall be prepared in a form similar to that in general use as a transcript of evidence in a trial. When so transcribed, the same shall be submitted to the judge who shall certify that it is a true and complete transcript of such proceedings and shall order the same filed as a part of the record and cause an order book entry of the filing thereof to be made by the clerk.

In any proceeding questioning the validity of such plea of guilty or judgment rendered thereon, such transcription shall be taken and considered as the record of the proceedings transcribed therein and upon appeal the original may be incorporated without copying as a part of the record in such appeal over the certificate of the clerk.