1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to claims against the state; providing for 
  1.3             payment of various claims; granting authority to 
  1.4             Murray county; designating a lake as a wildlife 
  1.5             management lake; appropriating money. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [ATTORNEY GENERAL.] 
  1.8      $11,929.01 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  1.9   attorney general for payment to Eveleth Hospital Corporation, 
  1.10  Eveleth, Minnesota, in full and final payment of its claim 
  1.11  against the state for expenses related to legal advice given by 
  1.12  the attorney general's office.  This appropriation is available 
  1.13  until June 30, 2002.  
  1.14     Sec. 2.  [DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.] 
  1.15     Subdivision 1.  [COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SENTENCING TO 
  1.16  SERVICE WORK.] The amounts in this subdivision are appropriated 
  1.17  from the general fund to the commissioner of corrections for 
  1.18  payment under Minnesota Statutes, section 3.739, to service 
  1.19  providers as indicated in full and final payment of claims 
  1.20  against the state for medical services provided to individuals 
  1.21  who were injured while performing community service or 
  1.22  sentencing to service work for correctional purposes.  These 
  1.23  appropriations are available until June 30, 2002. 
  1.24     (a) For claims under $500 each and other claims already 
  1.25  paid by the department, $5,885.39. 
  2.1      (b) For medical services provided to Carlos Block, who was 
  2.2   injured while performing sentencing to service work in Hennepin 
  2.3   county, $760.85. 
  2.4      (c) For medical services provided to Timothy Burke, who was 
  2.5   injured while performing sentencing to service work in McLeod 
  2.6   county, $576.17. 
  2.7      (d) For medical services provided to Roger Pearson, who was 
  2.8   injured while performing sentencing to service work in 
  2.9   Washington county, $565.92, including reimbursement of $71.68 to 
  2.10  Mr. Pearson for bills he has already paid. 
  2.11     (e) For medical services provided to Phillip Piper, who was 
  2.12  injured while performing sentencing to service work in Goodhue 
  2.13  county, $1,044.36. 
  2.14     (f) For medical services provided to James Wagner, who was 
  2.15  injured while performing sentencing to service work in Todd 
  2.16  county, $1,585.85. 
  2.17     Subd. 2.  [INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY WORK CREW PROGRAM.] 
  2.18  $2,049.86 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  2.19  commissioner of corrections for payment for medical services 
  2.20  provided to Michael Murphy, who was injured while participating 
  2.21  in the institutional community work crew program.  This 
  2.22  appropriation is available until June 30, 2002.  
  2.23     Sec. 3.  [DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.] 
  2.24     $7,600 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  2.25  commissioner of human services for payment under Minnesota 
  2.26  Statutes, section 3.738, as full and final payment of a claim 
  2.27  against the state by Kelly James Maurer, who suffered permanent 
  2.28  injuries to his left hand while an inmate at the St. Peter 
  2.29  Regional Treatment Center.  This appropriation is available 
  2.30  until June 30, 2002. 
  2.31     Sec. 4.  [DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.] 
  2.32     The amounts in this section are appropriated from the 
  2.33  general fund to the commissioner of natural resources for 
  2.34  payment to the persons named in this section in full and final 
  2.35  payment of claims against the state for the reasons given.  
  2.36  These appropriations are available until June 30, 2002. 
  3.1      (a) Charles G. Born of Janesville, Minnesota, to pay for 
  3.2   crop losses caused by the elevated level of Willis Lake .... 
  3.3   $9,423.25. 
  3.4      (b) Rex Campbell of Gray Eagle, Minnesota, to pay for 
  3.5   income lost because of enforcement of invalid rules .... $20,000.
  3.6      (c) Leonard Korbel of New Prague, Minnesota, to pay for the 
  3.7   reduced value of property subject to an unrecorded easement .... 
  3.8   $28,300. 
  3.9      (d) St. Croix Valley Heritage Coalition, Inc., to reimburse 
  3.10  that organization for costs it incurred as part of a project 
  3.11  entered into in partnership with the department of natural 
  3.12  resources which was abandoned because of unique concerns raised 
  3.13  by the federal government and Wisconsin officials .... $75,000. 
  3.14     (e) Waseca county, to pay for road damage caused by the 
  3.15  elevated level of Willis Lake .... $2,745.25. 
  3.16     Sec. 5.  [PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION.] 
  3.17     $69,637.02 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  3.18  Public Employees Retirement Association, for the benefit of 
  3.19  Deborah Montgomery of St. Paul, Minnesota, in full and final 
  3.20  payment of her claim against the state for inadvertent 
  3.21  diminution of her pension benefits while she was serving as 
  3.22  assistant commissioner of public safety.  This appropriation is 
  3.23  available until June 30, 2002.  
  3.24     Sec. 6.  [DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.] 
  3.25     $13,098.84 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  3.26  commissioner of revenue for payment to GOCO Salons, Inc. of 
  3.27  Minnetonka, Minnesota, in full and final payment of its claim 
  3.28  against the state for a sales and use tax overpayment.  This 
  3.29  appropriation is available until June 30, 2002. 
  3.30     Sec. 7.  [DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.] 
  3.31     $439.52 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  3.32  commissioner of transportation for payment to Joann Danelski of 
  3.33  Superior, Wisconsin, in full and final payment of her claim 
  3.34  against the state for damage to her car caused by unique 
  3.35  circumstances related to actions of an unknown driver who 
  3.36  knocked severely deteriorated curbing into the roadway of a 
  4.1   highway entrance ramp in Duluth, Minnesota.  This appropriation 
  4.2   is available until June 30, 2002. 
  4.3      Sec. 8.  [MURRAY COUNTY.] 
  4.4      Murray county may reimburse Howard Van Roekel of Chandler, 
  4.5   Minnesota, for property taxes mistakenly overpaid from 1985 
  4.6   through 1995 because of failure to grant homestead 
  4.7   classification to all of Mr. Van Roekel's property.  
  4.8      Sec. 9.  [WILLIS LAKE.] 
  4.9      Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.101, 
  4.10  subdivision 2, Willis Lake in Waseca county is hereby designated 
  4.11  as a wildlife management lake to be managed by the department of 
  4.12  natural resources under Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.101, 
  4.13  pursuant to the lake management plan prepared by the division of 
  4.14  wildlife on April 16, 2001.