Minnesota Session Laws - 2003, 1st Special Session

                             CHAPTER 15-H.F.No. 57 
                  An act relating to claims against the state; providing 
                  for payment of various claims; authorizing a payment; 
                  appropriating money. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  [ATTORNEY GENERAL.] 
           The attorney general shall pay $33,190 to Kristin King 
        Stapleton for losses not recovered from the client security 
        board.  This payment must come from the attorney general's 
        existing appropriation. 
           Sec. 2.  [DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.] 
           Subdivision 1.  [COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SENTENCING TO 
        SERVICE WORK.] The amounts in this subdivision are appropriated 
        from the general fund to the commissioner of corrections in 
        fiscal year 2004 as full and final payment under Minnesota 
        Statutes, section 3.739, of claims against the state for 
        injuries suffered by and medical services provided to 
        individuals who were injured while performing community service 
        or sentencing to service work for correctional purposes.  
           (a) For claims under $500 each and other claims already 
        paid by the department, $23,352.42. 
           (b) For medical services provided to Jeffrey Ferraro, who 
        was injured while performing sentencing to service work in Polk 
        county, $2,894.39. 
           (c) For payment to Vernon Mizer for a permanent partial 
        disability suffered while performing sentencing to service work 
        in Goodhue county, $7,432. 
           (d) For payment to Michael Pierce for a permanent partial 
        disability suffered while performing sentencing to service work 
        ordered by the Itasca county district court, $7,200, and for 
        medical services provided as a result of that injury, $506.16. 
           Subd. 2.  [INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.] $3,150 is 
        appropriated to the commissioner of corrections in fiscal year 
        2004 as reimbursement for the costs of independent medical 
        examinations provided to injured persons making legislative 
        claims. 
           Subd. 3.  [INMATE INJURIES.] The amounts in this 
        subdivision are appropriated from the general fund to the 
        commissioner of corrections in fiscal year 2004 as full and 
        final payment of claims against the state for permanent partial 
        disabilities suffered while performing assigned duties in the 
        Minnesota correctional facility-Faribault. 
           (a) To Andrew McNaney, $4,880. 
           (b) To Roberto Ramos, $5,144. 
           Sec. 3.  [DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.] 
           $33,858.25 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
        commissioner of natural resources in fiscal year 2004 for 
        payment to Craig Waddell, of Remer, Minnesota, as a full and 
        final settlement of his claim against the state for losses 
        suffered because of a moratorium imposed on raising logs from 
        Minnesota lake bottoms. 
           Sec. 4.  [DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.] 
           $38,843 is appropriated from the health care access fund to 
        the commissioner of revenue in fiscal year 2004 for payment to 
        Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of St. Louis, Missouri, as a full 
        and final settlement of its claim against the department for 
        overpayment of MinnesotaCare taxes. 
           Sec. 5.  [DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.] 
           The payment by the department of transportation of $2,500 
        from the trunk highway fund to Daniel and Florence Piekarski of 
        Little Falls, Minnesota, as a full and final settlement of their 
        claim against the department for costs of conversion to 
        municipal water because of groundwater contamination, is 
        authorized. 
           Sec. 6.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Sections 1 to 5 are effective the day following final 
        enactment. 
           Presented to the governor May 30, 2003 
           Signed by the governor June 8, 2003, 7:25 p.m.