Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: HF2187

HF 2187

CHAPTER 125
EFFECTIVE DATE: Various

Hennepin County Medical Center
governance provided, and county subsidiary corporation providing healthcare and
related services created.

ARTICLE 1--HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Section 1:
Creation of a county subsidiary corporation provided.
Sec. 2: Related term
definitions provided.
Sec. 3: Board established and details specified.
Sec. 4:
Officers regulated.
Sec. 5: Officer authority and duties specified.
Sec. 6:
Bylaws detailed.
Sec. 7: Corporate powers specified.
Sec. 8: Corporate power
limitations established.
Sec. 9: Corporate seal prohibited.
Sec. 10: Board
meeting requirements provided.
Sec. 11: Public depository jurisdiction
provided.
Sec. 12: Rights transfer procedures established.
Sec. 13: Asset
lease or transfer requirements provided.
Sec. 14: Present employee status,
bargaining units, and retirement coverage provided.
Sec. 15: Corporate bonding
authority provided.
Sec. 16: County financing provided.
Sec. 17: Open meeting
law and government data practices act relativity specified.
Sec. 18: Health
services plan provided.
Sec. 19: Tort liability specified.
Sec. 20: Revenue
recapture act provided.
Sec. 21: Purchasing provided.
Sec. 22: Legal counsel
provided.
Sec. 23: Self-insurance provisions established.
Sec. 24: Hospital
authorities regulated.
Sec. 25: Tax-exempt status provided.
Sec. 26: Prepaid
health plan relativity detailed.
Sec. 27: Intergovernmental transfers
provided.
Sec. 28: Indigent care provided.
Sec. 29: Effective dates.

ARTICLE
2--LABOR RELATIONS; RELATED ISSUES

Section 1: Essential employee definition
modified.
Sec. 2: Public employee definition modified.
Sec. 3: Public employer
definition modified.
Sec. 4: Right to organize provided.
Sec. 5: Hennepin
healthcare system, inc., established.
Sec. 6: Capitol notes and equipment
acquisition provisions established.
Sec. 7: Purchasing, contracting, meetings,
and data provisions modified.
Sec. 8: Transition provided.
Sec. 9:
Repealer.
Sec. 10: Effective date.

ARTICLE 3--CONFORMING RETIREMENT
CHANGES

Section 1: Excluded employees specified.
Sec. 2: Optional membership
provisions modified.
Sec. 3: Governmental subdivision definition modified.
Sec.
4: Hennepin healthcare system, inc., added to pension coverage provisions.
Sec.
5: Medical center protection officer definition modified for purposes of
conformity.
Sec. 6: Supplementary retirement account provisions modified.
Sec.
7: Effective date.

AME
8-23-05