1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to claims against the state; providing for 
  1.3             payment of various claims; authorizing a payment; 
  1.4             confirming a decision; appropriating money. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [ATTORNEY GENERAL.] 
  1.7      The attorney general shall pay $33,190 to Kristin King 
  1.8   Stapleton for losses not recovered from the client security 
  1.9   board.  This payment must come from the attorney general's 
  1.10  existing appropriation. 
  1.11     Sec. 2.  [DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.] 
  1.12     Subdivision 1.  [COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SENTENCING TO 
  1.13  SERVICE WORK.] The amounts in this subdivision are appropriated 
  1.14  from the general fund to the commissioner of corrections in 
  1.15  fiscal year 2004 as full and final payment under Minnesota 
  1.16  Statutes, section 3.739, of claims against the state for 
  1.17  injuries suffered by and medical services provided to 
  1.18  individuals who were injured while performing community service 
  1.19  or sentencing to service work for correctional purposes.  
  1.20     (a) For claims under $500 each and other claims already 
  1.21  paid by the department, $23,352.42. 
  1.22     (b) For medical services provided to Jeffrey Ferraro, who 
  1.23  was injured while performing sentencing to service work in Polk 
  1.24  county, $2,894.39. 
  1.25     (c) For payment to Vernon Mizer for a permanent partial 
  2.1   disability suffered while performing sentencing to service work 
  2.2   in Goodhue county, $7,432. 
  2.3      (d) For payment to Michael Pierce for a permanent partial 
  2.4   disability suffered while performing sentencing to service work 
  2.5   ordered by the Itasca county district court, $7,200, and for 
  2.6   medical services provided as a result of that injury, $506.16. 
  2.7      Subd. 2.  [INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.] $3,150 is 
  2.8   appropriated to the commissioner of corrections in fiscal year 
  2.9   2004 as reimbursement for the costs of independent medical 
  2.10  examinations provided to injured persons making legislative 
  2.11  claims. 
  2.12     Subd. 3.  [INMATE INJURIES.] The amounts in this 
  2.13  subdivision are appropriated from the general fund to the 
  2.14  commissioner of corrections in fiscal year 2004 as full and 
  2.15  final payment of claims against the state for permanent partial 
  2.16  disabilities suffered while performing assigned duties in the 
  2.17  Minnesota correctional facility-Faribault. 
  2.18     (a) To Andrew McNaney, $4,880. 
  2.19     (b) To Roberto Ramos, $5,144. 
  2.20     Sec. 3.  [DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.] 
  2.21     Subdivision 1.  [BODE CLAIM.] (a) The department of natural 
  2.22  resources shall pay from its existing appropriation the amount 
  2.23  required to restore tiling on the farm of Linda and Judy Bode in 
  2.24  Nicollet, Minnesota, that was destroyed by the department in 
  2.25  1992 and 1993, as a full and final settlement of their claim 
  2.26  against the state.  The payment must be no more than $26,000. 
  2.27     (b) As determined by the Nicollet county hearings unit in 
  2.28  1980, the wetlands on the Bode farm is separate from the 
  2.29  wetlands on the neighboring farm and is less than ten acres in 
  2.30  size. 
  2.31     Subd. 2.  [WADDELL CLAIM.] $33,858.25 is appropriated from 
  2.32  the general fund to the commissioner of natural resources in 
  2.33  fiscal year 2004 for payment to Craig Waddell, of Remer, 
  2.34  Minnesota, as a full and final settlement of his claim against 
  2.35  the state for losses suffered because of a moratorium imposed on 
  2.36  raising logs from Minnesota lake bottoms. 
  3.1      Sec. 4.  [DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.] 
  3.2      $38,843 is appropriated from the health care access fund to 
  3.3   the commissioner of revenue in fiscal year 2004 for payment to 
  3.4   Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of St. Louis, Missouri, as a full 
  3.5   and final settlement of its claim against the department for 
  3.6   overpayment of MinnesotaCare taxes. 
  3.7      Sec. 5.  [DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.] 
  3.8      The payment by the department of transportation of $2,500 
  3.9   from the trunk highway fund to Daniel and Florence Piekarski of 
  3.10  Little Falls, Minnesota, as a full and final settlement of their 
  3.11  claim against the department for costs of conversion to 
  3.12  municipal water because of groundwater contamination, is 
  3.13  authorized. 
  3.14     Sec. 6.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  3.15     Sections 1 to 5 are effective the day following final 
  3.16  enactment.