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HB 581 Engrossed 2019 Regular Session Garofalo
Abstract: Requires payment for flood control or flood protection projects that encompass multiple
levee districts be proportionate to the value of the property protected by the flood control or
flood protection project within each levee district. Requires payment for a drainage project
under the jurisdiction of multiple levee districts be proportionate to the value of the property
protected by the drainage protection project within each levee district.
Proposed law requires payment of the joint costs of management, planning, design, construction,
operation and maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation of any flood control or flood
protection project that impacts multiple levee districts be proportionate to the value of the property
protected by the flood control or flood protection project within each levee district.
Proposed law requires payments for a drainage project under the jurisdiction of multiple levee
districts be proportionate to the value of the property protected by the drainage protection project
within each levee district or proportionate to the volumetric flows contributed to the drainage
protection project by each levee district's jurisdiction. Proposed law further provides that payment
for the cost of any drainage project under the jurisdiction of an individual levee district will be borne
by the levee district within which the project is physically located.
Proposed law requires each levee district to establish individual accounts to deposit funds for the
joint costs of management, planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance, repair,
replacement, and rehabilitation for any flood control, flood protection, or drainage project, under the
jurisdiction of multiple levee districts, proportionate to the value of the property protected by the
flood control, flood protection, or drainage project within each levee district. Proposed law exempts levee districts proposing a flood control, flood protection, or drainage project
that provide their own mutually acceptable plan for payments in an agreement.
(Adds R.S. 38:292)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Transportation, Highways and
Public Works to the original bill:
1. Add another option for payment for a drainage project under the jurisdiction of multiple
levee districts by allowing the payments be proportionate to the volumetric flows
contributed to the drainage protection project by each levee district's jurisdiction.