Minnesota Session Laws - 1998, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 268-S.F.No. 2525 
                  An act relating to Ramsey county; authorizing the 
                  county to make certain purchases from or through a 
                  health care cooperative; proposing coding for new law 
                  in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 383A.  
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  [383A.323] [PURCHASING THROUGH HEALTH CARE 
        COOPERATIVE.] 
           Sections 471.345 to 471.37 do not prohibit Ramsey county on 
        behalf of the Ramsey nursing home as a member of a health care 
        cooperative pursuant to chapter 62R from purchasing from or 
        through the health care cooperative.  The purchases through a 
        health care cooperative are not subject to sections 471.345 to 
        471.37. 
           Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Section 1 is effective the day after the Ramsey county 
        board's approval is filed according to Minnesota Statutes, 
        section 645.021, subdivision 3. 
           Presented to the governor March 3, 1998 
           Signed by the governor March 5, 1998, 10:57 a.m.