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SENATE BILL 6011
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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/22/95.
Referred to Committee on Education.
Changing
provisions relating to the purchase of liability insurance by school districts.
AN ACT Relating to the
purchase of liability insurance by school districts; and amending RCW
28A.400.350.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28A.400.350 and 1993
c 492 s 226 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The board of
directors of any of the state's school districts may make available liability,
life, health, health care, accident, disability and salary protection or
insurance or any one of, or a combination of the enumerated types of insurance,
or any other type of insurance or protection, for the members of the boards of
directors, the students, and employees of the school district, and their
dependents. Such coverage may be provided by contracts with private carriers,
with the state health care authority after July 1, 1990, pursuant to the
approval of the authority administrator, or through self-insurance or
self-funding pursuant to chapter 48.62 RCW, or in any other manner authorized
by law. Except for health benefits purchased with nonstate funds as provided
in RCW 28A.400.200, effective on and after October 1, 1995, health care
coverage, life insurance, ((liability insurance,)) accidental death and
dismemberment insurance, and disability income insurance shall be provided only
by contracts with the state health care authority.
(2) Whenever funds are
available for these purposes the board of directors of the school district may
contribute all or a part of the cost of such protection or insurance for the
employees of their respective school districts and their dependents. The
premiums on such liability insurance shall be borne by the school district.
After October 1, 1990,
school districts may not contribute to any employee protection or insurance
other than liability insurance unless the district's employee benefit plan
conforms to RCW 28A.400.275 and 28A.400.280.
(3) For school board
members and students, the premiums due on such protection or insurance shall be
borne by the assenting school board member or student. The school district may
contribute all or part of the costs, including the premiums, of life, health,
health care, accident or disability insurance which shall be offered to all
students participating in interschool activities on the behalf of or as
representative of their school or school district. The school district board
of directors may require any student participating in extracurricular
interschool activities to, as a condition of participation, document evidence
of insurance or purchase insurance that will provide adequate coverage, as
determined by the school district board of directors, for medical expenses
incurred as a result of injury sustained while participating in the
extracurricular activity. In establishing such a requirement, the district shall
adopt regulations for waiving or reducing the premiums of such coverage as may
be offered through the school district to students participating in
extracurricular activities, for those students whose families, by reason of
their low income, would have difficulty paying the entire amount of such
insurance premiums. The district board shall adopt regulations for waiving or
reducing the insurance coverage requirements for low-income students in order
to assure such students are not prohibited from participating in
extracurricular interschool activities.
(4) All contracts for
insurance or protection written to take advantage of the provisions of this
section shall provide that the beneficiaries of such contracts may utilize on
an equal participation basis the services of those practitioners licensed
pursuant to chapters 18.22, 18.25, 18.53, 18.57, and 18.71 RCW.
Passed
the Senate March 10, 1995.
Passed
the House April 10, 1995.
Approved by the Governor April 20, 1995.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 20, 1995.
