On January 28, Executive Director Michael Sanderson testified before the Environment and Transportation Committee in support of HB 100 – Insurance Pooling – Public Entity – Definition.
This bill makes helpful changes to state law authorizing cooperative purchasing of insurance coverage by local government entities, modernizing those references to include a locally-created resilience authority.
“State law already allows lots of cooperative purchasing, but insurance is different,” said Mr. Sanderson. “We need this bill to allow joint insurance programs – but these authorities are a best practice, and there’s every reason to include them in the law that you already have on the books.”
Even on a smaller scale, combining a county with another entity (such as a town, library system, or water district) may offer savings especially for the smaller entity. Insurance is one such area specifically so authorized. HB 100 takes this sensible policy, and extends it to resilience authorities – a newly-evolving model for delivering sustainability-based, erosion-related, and comparable offerings to residents.
HB 100’s cross-file, SB 102, was heard on January 29 in the Finance Committee. Karrington Anderson testified in support of this bill.
SB 102 was heard in the opposite chamber, the Environment and Transportation Committee, on March 25. MACo submitted written testimony in support of this bill.
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