DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 519 Original 2022 Regular Session Garofalo
Abstract: Requires payment for flood control, flood protection, or drainage projects that impact
multiple levee districts be paid proportionately as determined by mutual agreement of the
districts and parishes impacted.
Present law authorizes two or more contiguous levee districts to make agreements for the purpose
of engaging jointly in the construction, acquisition, or improvement of any public flood control or
drainage project or improvement, the promotion and maintenance or the exercise of any power
related to such projects provided that at least one of the districts is authorized by law to undertake
such projects. Present law makes this authority retroactive to Jan. 1, 1997.
Proposed law maintains present law.
Proposed law requires payment of the joint costs of any flood control, flood protection, or drainage
project that impacts multiple parishes to be shared by the levee districts impacted and apportioned
equitably among the districts, as determined by mutual agreement between the districts and parishes
impacted.
Proposed law requires the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Bd. (CPRA Bd.), in the
absence of timely mutual agreement between the parishes and districts, to develop a formula to
apportion the costs of the project among the districts impacted.
Proposed law requires the CPRA Bd. to use, at a minimum, the value of the property being protected
as criteria for developing the formula for any flood control or protection project; or to use the
proportionate volumetric flows contributed to each levee district's jurisdiction as a criteria in
developing the formula for any drainage project.
Proposed law further provides that payment for the costs 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 authorizes 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 methods created by proposed law.
(Amends R.S. 38:330)