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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 60
BY SENATOR RISER
ASSESSORS. Provides relative to the payment of certain insurance premium costs for
certain retired assessors and assessors' employees in Caldwell and Lincoln parishes. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact 47:1923(D)(1), relative to tax assessors; to provide relative to the2
payment of certain insurance premiums for certain retired assessors and assessors'3
employees in the parishes of Caldwell and Lincoln; and to provide for related4
matters.5
Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 47:1923(D)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:8
ยง1923. Authority for assessors separately or jointly to contract for insurance;9
payment of premiums10
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D.(1) In the parishes of Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles,12
Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, Catahoula, Claiborne,13
Concordia, DeSoto, East Baton Rouge, Franklin, Iberia, Iberville, Jackson, Jefferson,14
Lafayette, Lafourche, LaSalle, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches,15
Orleans, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, St.16
Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin,17 SB NO. 60
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Tangipahoa, Tensas, Terrebonne, Union, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, Webster,1
West Baton Rouge, West Carroll, and West Feliciana, and any parish with a2
population of between ten thousand and eleven thousand according to the latest3
federal decennial census, the assessor shall pay the premium cost of group life,4
dental, group health, hospital, surgical, or other medical insurance for any assessor5
or assessor's employee who retires with at least twenty years of service who is at6
least fifty-five years of age or who retires with at least thirty years of service at any7
age. A uniform policy with respect to the payment of such premium shall be8
formulated and applied by the assessor of each parish listed in this Subsection.9
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Dawn Romero Watson.
DIGEST
Riser (SB 60)
Present law requires that the tax assessor of certain parishes pay the premium cost of group
life, dental, health, and other insurance for any assessor or assessor's employee who retires
with at least 30 years of service at any age or who retires with at least 20 years of service and
is at least 55 years of age. The parishes included are: Acadia, Allen, Ascension,
Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula, Claiborne,
Concordia, DeSoto, East Baton Rouge, Franklin, Iberia, Iberville, Jackson, Jefferson,
Lafayette, Lafourche, LaSalle, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Orleans, Ouachita,
Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St.
Helena, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Terrebonne, Union,
Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, Webster, West Baton Rouge, West Carroll, West Feliciana
and any parish with a population of between 10,000 and 11,000 according to the latest
federal decennial census (Caldwell and Catahoula from 2010 federal decennial census).
Proposed law adds Lincoln Parish to the present law list of parish tax assessors required to
pay such insurance premiums and includes Caldwell Parish as a named parish.
Proposed law deletes present law population reference for inclusion of certain parishes.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 47:1923(D)(1))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Local and Municipal
Affairs to the original bill.
1. Deletes present law inclusion of certain parishes by population.