Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 161-H.F.No. 1027 
           An act relating to state employees; authorizing the 
          donation of accrued vacation time by state employees 
          in 1989 to pay unreimbursed medical costs incurred by 
          other state employees. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
     Section 1.  [UNREIMBURSED MEDICAL COSTS VACATION DONATION 
PROGRAM.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [DONATION OF VACATION TIME.] A state 
employee may donate up to eight hours of accrued vacation time 
in calendar year 1989 to the account established by subdivision 
2 for the benefit of another state employee.  The employee must 
notify the employee's agency head of the amount of accrued 
vacation time the employee wishes to donate and the name of the 
other state employee who is to benefit from the donation.  The 
agency head shall determine the monetary value of the donated 
time, using the gross salary of the employee making the 
donation.  The agency head shall transfer that amount, less 
deductions for applicable taxes and retirement contributions, to 
the account established by subdivision 2.  A donation of accrued 
vacation time is irrevocable once its monetary value has been 
transferred to the account. 
    Subd. 2.  [BENEFIT ACCOUNT.] The vacation benefit account, 
consisting of money transferred under subdivision 1, is 
administered by the commissioner of employee relations.  Money 
in the account is appropriated to the commissioner for purposes 
of this section until January 1, 1991.  Any appropriation 
remaining in the account on that date is transferred to the 
commissioner of commerce to cover costs of the study required by 
subdivision 4. 
    Subd. 3.  [USE OF ACCOUNT ASSETS.] Expenditures from the 
account may be made only to pay unreimbursed medical expenses 
when the total of those expenses is at least $10,000 and the 
expenses are incurred because of the illness of or injury to a 
state employee or the employee's spouse or dependent.  An 
expenditure on behalf of an employee may not exceed the total 
transferred into the account established by subdivision 2 
because of a donation or donations of vacation time for the 
benefit of that employee. 
    Subd.  4.  [STUDY; TRANSPLANT SURGERY.] The commissioner of 
commerce shall study the feasibility of: 
    (1) requiring all policies or plans of health, medical, 
hospitalization, or accident and sickness insurance, and all 
health maintenance organizations providing coverage of or 
reimbursement for inpatient hospital and medical expenses to 
cover the costs of nonexperimental transplant surgery; and 
    (2) defining experimental and nonexperimental transplant 
surgery for purposes of this subdivision. 
The commissioner shall report the results of the study and any 
recommendations resulting from the study to the legislature by 
January 15, 1991. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 16, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 19, 1989, 4:40 p.m.