1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to workers' compensation; providing for disability payments to an 
1.3 	employee of a bomb squad.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY BENEFITS FOR BOMB 
1.6 	SQUAD EMPLOYEES.
 1.7 	Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the employer or former employer of a 
1.8 	public employee who was injured in February 2005 while working on a bomb squad 
1.9 	must pay the person permanent total disability benefits under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 
1.10 	176, equal to the difference between: (1) the salary the person received from the public 
1.11 	employer at the time of the injury; and (2) the disability benefit the person receives from 
1.12 	the Public Employees Retirement Association. The salary used as the basis for calculating 
1.13 	the payment under this section must be deemed to increase by the same percentage as the 
1.14 	annual increase in Social Security benefits. The weekly payments required under this 
1.15 	section must continue until the employee who was injured attains age 67.

1.16 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment. 
1.17 	The obligation to make payments under this section applies retroactively from February 
1.18 	1, 2007.