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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 470
BY SENATOR LONG
ETHICS. Provides relative to conflicts of interest. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 42:1123(18)(d), relative to conflicts of interest; to provide that certain children2
of members of boards of commissioners of certain hospitals may contract with such3
hospitals under certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 42:1123(18)(d) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1123. Exceptions7
This Part shall not preclude:8
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(18)(a) * * *10
(d) Any child of a member of a board of commissioners, which child is11
a licensed physician, for any hospital service district authorized by Chapter 1012
of Title 46 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, located within a parish13
that has a population of fifty thousand or less or for a hospital that is specified14
as rural, from contracting with the hospital over which the board exercises15
jurisdiction, from subcontracting with another provider who contracts with16
such hospital, or from owning an interest in any entity that contracts with such17 SB NO. 470
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hospital; except that such board member shall recuse himself from participating1
in any transaction before the board relating to any contracts entered into by the2
child, or by any provider with which the child contracts, or any entity in which3
the child owns an interest and permitted by this Paragraph.4
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alden A. Clement, Jr.
DIGEST
Present law provides exemptions from present law relative to conflicts of interest for certain
persons under certain circumstances.
Proposed law retains present law and further provides that any child of a member of a board
of commissioners, which child is a licensed physician, for any hospital service district
authorized by present law and located within a parish that has a population of 50,000 or less
or for a hospital that is specified as rural, from contracting with the hospital over which the
board exercises jurisdiction, from subcontracting with another provider who contracts with
such hospital, or from owning an interest in any entity that contracts with such hospital.
Proposed law provides, however, that such board member must recuse himself from
participating in any transaction before the board relating to any contracts entered into by the
child, or by any provider with which the child contracts, or any entity in which the child
owns an interest permitted by present law.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 42:1123(18)(d))