SB 35 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0561
05/10
SENATE BILL 35
AN ACT relative to membership in risk pools.
SPONSORS: Sen. Cavanaugh, Dist 16; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20
COMMITTEE: Commerce
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ANALYSIS
This bill allows founding organizations of existing pooled risk management programs to obtain
certain coverage through the risk pool if the governing board approves their participation.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
 SB 35 - AS INTRODUCED
21-0561
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT relative to membership in risk pools.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 1 Pooled Risk Management Programs; Membership. Amend RSA 5-B:3, I to read as follows:
2 I.(a) A political subdivision, by resolution of its governing body, may establish and enter
3 into agreements for obtaining or implementing insurance by self-insurance; for obtaining insurance
4 from any insurer authorized to transact business in this state as an admitted or surplus lines
5 carrier; or for obtaining insurance secured in accordance with any method provided by law; or for
6 obtaining insurance by any combination of the provisions of this paragraph. Agreements made
7 pursuant to this paragraph may provide for pooling of self-insurance reserves, risks, claims and
8 losses, and of administrative services and expenses associated with them among political
9 subdivisions. To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, 2 or more political subdivisions may form
10 an association under the laws of this state or affirm an existing association so formed to develop and
11 administer a risk management program having as its purposes reducing the risk of its members;
12 safety engineering; distributing, sharing, and pooling risks; acquiring insurance, excess loss
13 insurance, or reinsurance; and processing, paying and defending claims against the members of such
14 association.
15 (b) Founding organizations of existing pooled risk management programs may
16 join the risk pool and obtain coverage allowed under subparagraphs III(f) and (g) upon
17 approval of the governing board of the risk management program.
18 2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 5-B:3
Ought to Pass: 5-B:3
latest version: 5-B:3