130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2021
Legislative Document No. 794
S.P. 57 In Senate, March 5, 2021
An Act To Maintain Maine's System of Therapeutic Foster Care for
Children through the Creation of a Nonprofit Risk Indemnification
Trust
(EMERGENCY)
Reference to the Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services
suggested and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator SANBORN of Cumberland.
Printed on recycled paper
 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2 CONCEPT DRAFT
3 SUMMARY
4 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208.
5 This emergency bill proposes to direct the Department of Professional and Financial
6 Regulation, Bureau of Insurance and the Department of Health and Human Services to
7 develop a state nonprofit risk indemnification trust to provide liability insurance coverage
8 for entities such as state-contracted providers of therapeutic foster care that are unable to
9 obtain affordable coverage through ordinary means and when coverage is required by law
10 or is necessary for the conduct of a public purpose. The bill proposes to indemnify
11 nonprofit beneficiary organizations and their officers, directors and agents for financial loss
12 due to the imposition of legal liability.
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