SF3094 Summary

• Appropriates $1,786,976.89 from the general fund in fiscal year 2017 to pay three exoneration awards: Michael Ray Hansen ($916,828.76), Koua Fong Lee ($395,148.13), and Roger Lee Olsen ($475,000) under the Imprisonment and Exoneration Remedies Act.

• Appropriates $11,140.65 from the general fund in fiscal year 2017 to the Department of Corrections for injury and medical claims, including payments to correctional facility employees and sentence-to-service workers for work-related injuries.

• Establishes a $7,000 settlement limit for commissioners of human services, veterans affairs, and corrections to approve claims for loss, damage, or destruction of property by patients, inmates, or conditionally released offenders without legislative approval.

• Increases the claims filing fee to $8 (from $5) for petitions submitted to the joint senate-house Subcommittee on Claims, with successful claimants reimbursed for the fee.

• Effective date of July 1, 2016 for all amended statutes regarding claims procedures and settlement limits.