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