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ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 1592 By: Treat of the Senate
and
McCall of the House
An Act relating to liability insurance; creating the
Educators' Professional Liability Insurance Program;
stating application of act ; requiring certain
liability coverage for employees; directing Office of
Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) to
administer program and promulgate rules; authorizin g
OMES to contract for private insurance or create a
self-insured risk pool or both; requiring competitive
process for selecting insurer; directing Legislature
to appropriate funds for the program annually;
requiring written notification of coverage;
prescribing contents of notice; construing
provisions; providing for codification; and declaring
an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5-140.1 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. The Educators’ Professional Liabilit y Insurance Program
shall be created for full-time and part-time personnel employed by a
public school district and a public charter school. The program
shall provide liability coverage for employees up t o One Million
Dollars ($1,000,000.00) in coverage per occurrence.
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B. The program shall be administered by the Office of
Management and Enterprise Services (OMES). OMES shall promulgate
rules to implement the provisions of t his act. OMES may contract
liability insurance from a licensed insurer, create a self-insured
risk pool, or use a combination of both. The insurance carrier
providing any portion of coverage provided under this act shall be
selected by a competitive process.
C. The Legislature shall provide an annual appropriation to
cover the costs and any associated premiums for the program.
D. The State Department of Edu cation shall provide to eligible
employees upon hiring and annually thereafter written notice of the
Educators' Professional Liability Insurance Program. The notice
shall specifically inform em ployees that coverage is provided
automatically as part of the ir employment.
E. Nothing in this section shall be constru ed to exempt a local
school district from an y current obligations or d uties nor amend or
alter The Governmental Tort Claims Act provided in S ections 151
through 172 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Stat utes.
SECTION 2. It being immediately nece ssary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an e mergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its pass age and approval.
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Passed the Senate the 23rd day of March, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Repre sentatives the ____ day of __________,
2022.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives