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HB 256 Engrossed 2015 Regular Session Pope
Abstract: Authorizes the La. School Board Assoc., on behalf of local public school systems, to
serve as an administrator of an agency formed by local school boards to administer a local
risk management program to insure and protect against certain risks, and to join as a member
beneficiary of such program.
Proposed law authorizes multiple local governmental subdivisions to form an "interlocal risk
management agency" to develop and administer risk management programs to insure and defend
against certain legal claims and to establish group self-insurance funds to self-insure or purchase
joint insurance policies for accident and health protection or to insure against public liability or
worker's compensation risks. Proposed law retains present law and also authorizes city, parish, or
local public school systems to form and participate in interlocal risk management agencies.
Present law authorizes municipalities to designate the La. Municipal Assoc. and parishes to designate
the Police Jury Assoc. of La. to administer the risk management agency and any group self-insurance
fund and, if so designated, the boards of these associations serve as trustees of each interlocal risk
management agency. Proposed law also authorizes school boards, by adoption of a resolution, to so
designate the La. School Board Assoc. as an administrator and its board of directors will serve as a
board of trustees.
Present law specifically authorizes the La. Municipal Assoc. and the Police Jury Assoc. of La. to
become members of an interlocal risk management agency in order to provide accident and health
protection to its own employees, insure against public liability and worker's compensation, and to
provide coverage for motor vehicle liability, burglary and forgery, and fire loss. Proposed law
authorizes the La. School Board Assoc. to also become a member beneficiary of such agency.
Proposed law provides technical corrections to cross-references of various laws.
(Amends R.S. 33:1342(1), 1343(B) and (F), and 1344)