Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF2824

2E Relating to transportation

ARTICLE 1 - STATE TORT CLAIMS

Modifying the
effective date for an increase in individual damage caps for state tort claims


ARTICLE 2 - I-35W BRIDGE COLLAPSE

Providing for an alternative compensation
process for victims of the I-35W bridge collapse; defining certain terms;
requiring the chief justice of the supreme court to establish a special master
panel to consider claims, make settlement offers and enter into settlement
agreements with victims; specifying panel membership; authorizing the hiring of
staff; establishing a process for considering claims; authorizing the department
of finance to pay for panel costs; ensuring panel immunity from civil liability;
specifying certain settlement requirements; requiring the commissioner of
finance to pay agreed amount in settlement within a certain period of time;
defining an offer of settlement as a legal claim; specifying privacy of certain
records; permitting the victim to proceed in district court under certain
conditions; providing for the effect of the special compensation process to
current state law, specifying victims payments primacy from nonstate obligors
and defining nonstate obligors, specifying a subrogation interests notification
time limit requirement; appropriating money to the commissioner of finance for
payment settlements and other costs
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