SB 1500 Summary

• Reduces minimum general liability insurance requirements for lead community-based foster care providers and subcontractors from $1 million per claim/$3 million aggregate to $500,000 per claim/$1.5 million aggregate.

• Decreases economic damages liability caps from $1 million per claim to $500,000 per claim, with a $1.5 million per incident limit and $2 million total across all involved lead agencies and subcontractors for a single occurrence.

• Adds noneconomic damages limits of $500,000 per incident and $1 million total across all involved parties per occurrence, in addition to existing $200,000 per claim limits.

• Provides immunity from tort liability for the Department of Children and Family Services for acts or omissions of community-based providers, subcontractors, and their employees or agents.

• Eliminates automatic annual 5 percent increase adjustments to damage limitation amounts and removes requirement that the department retain responsibility for quality of contracted services.