SF 2160

1st Engrossment - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to claims against the state; providing for
settlement of various claims; increasing amount of
allowable reimbursement for certain damage by inmates;
appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004,
section 3.755.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.
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new text begin The following amounts are appropriated from the general
fund to the commissioner of corrections in fiscal year 2006 as
full and final payment of accrued medical bills under Minnesota
Statutes, section 3.739, of claims against the state for
injuries suffered by and medical services provided to persons
injured while performing community service or
sentence-to-service work for correctional purposes or while
incarcerated in a correctional facility and for reimbursement to
a corrections officer for property damaged by an inmate:
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new text begin (1) for claims already paid by the department, $4,938.44;
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new text begin (2) for payment to James DeNoyer for permanent injuries
suffered while performing work at MCF-Lino Lakes, $8,000;
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new text begin (3) for payment to Brian Dziubak for permanent injuries
suffered while performing work at MCF-Stillwater, $1,875;
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new text begin (4) for payment of medical costs related to the injury
suffered by Donna Gregory while performing sentence-to-service
work in Martin County, $3,509;
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new text begin (5) for payment of medical costs related to the injury
suffered by Brenden Larsen while performing sentence-to-service
work in Dakota County, to the extent those costs are not
reimbursed by insurance, $7,083.29;
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new text begin (6) for payment of medical costs related to the injury
suffered by Diane Pierre while performing sentence-to-service
work in Beltrami County, $6,619.96;
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new text begin (7) for payment to Stephen Schweiss for permanent injuries
suffered while performing sentence-to-service work in Lyon
County, $3,750; and for payment of medical costs related to that
injury; $4,602.23;
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new text begin (8) for payment of medical costs related to the injury
suffered by Merlin Volker while performing community work
service in Itasca County, $4,343.10; and
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new text begin (9) for payment to David Gustafson as reimbursement for
property damaged by an inmate, $421.21.
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Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 3.755, is amended
to read:

3.755 DAMAGE BY ESCAPING INMATES.

The Department of Corrections and the Department of Human
Services shall pay all claims involving property damage, not
covered by insurance, resulting from actions of escaping inmates
or runaway patients occurring while making their escape. The
departments must verify the reasonableness of the amounts
claimed. Upon the approval of the commissioner of human
services or the commissioner of corrections as to the
institutions under their respective control, the superintendent
or chief executive officer of an institution may pay out of the
current expense appropriation of the institution to an employee
of the institution the amount of any property damage sustained
by the employee, not in excess of deleted text begin $250 deleted text end new text begin $500 new text end , because of action
of a patient or inmate of the institution.