HF 2371

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to claims against the state; providing for
settlement of various claims; increasing amount of
allowable reimbursement for certain damage by inmates;
appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004,
section 3.755.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.
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new text begin The amounts in this section are appropriated from the
general fund to the commissioner of corrections in fiscal year
2006 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 persons injured while performing
community service or sentence-to-service work for correctional
purposes or while incarcerated in a correctional facility and
for reimbursement to a corrections officer for property damaged
by an inmate.
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new text begin (a) For claims already paid by the department, $4,938.44.
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new text begin (b) For payment to David Gustafson as reimbursement for
property damaged by an inmate, $421.21.
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Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 3.755, is amended
to read:

3.755 DAMAGE BY ESCAPING INMATES.

The Department of Corrections and the Department of Human
Services shall pay all claims involving property damage, not
covered by insurance, resulting from actions of escaping inmates
or runaway patients occurring while making their escape. The
departments must verify the reasonableness of the amounts
claimed. Upon the approval of the commissioner of human
services or the commissioner of corrections as to the
institutions under their respective control, the superintendent
or chief executive officer of an institution may pay out of the
current expense appropriation of the institution to an employee
of the institution the amount of any property damage sustained
by the employee, not in excess of deleted text begin $250 deleted text end new text begin $500 new text end , because of action
of a patient or inmate of the institution.