Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 602-S.F.No. 2451 
           An act relating to claims against the state; 
          clarifying that a public defender appointed by the 
          state board of public defense or a court-appointed 
          guardian ad litem is an employee of the state; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
          3.732, subdivision 1. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
3.732, subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] As used in this section and 
section 3.736 the terms defined in this section have the 
meanings given them. 
    (1) "State" includes each of the departments, boards, 
agencies, commissions, courts, and officers in the executive, 
legislative, and judicial branches of the state of Minnesota and 
includes but is not limited to the Minnesota housing finance 
agency, the Minnesota higher education coordinating board, the 
Minnesota higher education facilities authority, the armory 
building commission, the Minnesota zoological board, the state 
agricultural society, the University of Minnesota, state 
universities, community colleges, state hospitals, and state 
penal institutions.  It does not include a city, town, county, 
school district, or other local governmental body corporate and 
politic. 
    (2) "Employee of the state" means all present or former 
officers, members, directors, or employees of the state, members 
of the Minnesota national guard, or persons acting on behalf of 
the state in an official capacity, temporarily or permanently, 
with or without compensation, but does not include either an 
independent contractor or members of the Minnesota national 
guard while engaged in training or duty under United States 
Code, title 10, or United States Code, title 32, section 316, 
502, 503, 504, or 505, as amended through December 31, 1983.  
"Employee of the state" includes a public defender appointed by 
the state board of public defense or a court-appointed guardian 
ad litem, whether paid by the state or by a political 
subdivision. 
    (3) "Scope of office or employment" means that the employee 
was acting on behalf of the state in the performance of duties 
or tasks lawfully assigned by competent authority. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
     This act is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Approved April 21, 1988