Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0002

E Relating to year 2000 computer problems; expanding the authority of the
governor to declare peacetime emergencies to technological failures or
malfunctions and terrorist incidents; authorizing local government units to
address the year 2000 computer problem; providing immunity against actions for
trade, professional or governmental associations, state agencies or governmental
units for damages or harm resulting from the collection or publication of year
2000 solution information, exception, no implied liability provision; requiring
electric utilities and telephone companies to file periodic status reports on
year 2000 computer problems with the public utilities commission and the
department of public service, requiring copies to the division of emergency
management in the department of public safety and specifying certain report
content requirements; providing a temporary exception from the uniform municipal
contracting law for the purchase or rental of supplies, materials and equipment
and the construction, alteration, repair and maintenance of real or personal
property to correct public infrastructure or municipal service failures or
malfunctions due to year 2000 problems; granting local government units
temporary authority to borrow money and incur debt for year 2000 problem
remediation; requiring the department of health to survey hospitals, nursing
homes and certain water supply systems for best practices information relating
to year 2000 problems and authorizing dissemination of the information to the
hospitals, nursing homes and water supply system operators, requiring entity
periodic status reports to the department with copies to the emergency
management division; prohibiting the use of required status reports as evidence
in damage or relief actions; requiring the commissioner of human services to
continue to pay health care providers paid under state government programs or
counties by manual warrant or other measures under certain infrastructure or
systems failure or malfunction conditions; appropriating money from the state
employee insurance reserve account in the special revenue fund to the
commissioner of finance for temporary loans to the metropolitan council or
agencies, school districts, counties, cities and towns to meet incurred year
2000 problem costs, specifying certain proposed use certification and loan
repayment requirements, providing for an insufficiency appropriation of a
certain amount from the budget reserve account in the general fund to the
commissioner for transfer to the state employee insurance reserve account (mk,
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