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ACT No. 7
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 58
BY REPRESENTATIVE RISER
1 AN ACT
2 To enact 13:5554(LL), relative to the Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office; to provide for the
3 payment of insurance premium costs; to provide for eligibility requirements for the
4 payment of insurance premium costs for retired sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the
5 Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 13:5554(LL) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง5554. Group insurance; kinds; amounts; subrogation
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10 LL. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection D of this Section, the
11 sheriff of Catahoula Parish shall pay out of the sheriff's general fund the premium
12 costs of group insurance for any retired sheriff and any retired deputy sheriff who
13 retired from the Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office as follows:
14 (1) One hundred percent of the premium costs of group hospital, surgical,
15 medical expense, and dental insurance, and the first ten thousand dollars of life
16 insurance contracted for under the provisions of this Section if the sheriff or deputy
17 sheriff retired with thirty years or more of creditable service with the sheriff's office
18 of Catahoula Parish.
19 (2) Seventy-five percent of the premium costs of group hospital, surgical,
20 medical expense, and dental insurance, and the first ten thousand dollars of life
21 insurance contracted for under the provisions of this Section if the sheriff or deputy
22 sheriff retired with twenty-five years of creditable service with the sheriff's office of
23 Catahoula Parish.
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1 (3) Fifty percent of the premium costs of group hospital, surgical, medical
2 expense, and dental insurance, and the first ten thousand dollars of life insurance
3 contracted for under the provisions of this Section if the sheriff or deputy sheriff
4 retired with twenty years of creditable service with the sheriff's office of Catahoula
5 Parish.
6 (4) The provisions of this Subsection shall apply only to persons hired by the
7 Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office on or after July 1, 2020, and who subsequently
8 retire from the Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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