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Laws of Minnesota 1989 CHAPTER 161-H.F.No. 1027 An act relating to state employees; authorizing the donation of accrued vacation time by state employees in 1989 to pay unreimbursed medical costs incurred by other state employees. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. [UNREIMBURSED MEDICAL COSTS VACATION DONATION PROGRAM.] Subdivision 1. [DONATION OF VACATION TIME.] A state employee may donate up to eight hours of accrued vacation time in calendar year 1989 to the account established by subdivision 2 for the benefit of another state employee. The employee must notify the employee's agency head of the amount of accrued vacation time the employee wishes to donate and the name of the other state employee who is to benefit from the donation. The agency head shall determine the monetary value of the donated time, using the gross salary of the employee making the donation. The agency head shall transfer that amount, less deductions for applicable taxes and retirement contributions, to the account established by subdivision 2. A donation of accrued vacation time is irrevocable once its monetary value has been transferred to the account. Subd. 2. [BENEFIT ACCOUNT.] The vacation benefit account, consisting of money transferred under subdivision 1, is administered by the commissioner of employee relations. Money in the account is appropriated to the commissioner for purposes of this section until January 1, 1991. Any appropriation remaining in the account on that date is transferred to the commissioner of commerce to cover costs of the study required by subdivision 4. Subd. 3. [USE OF ACCOUNT ASSETS.] Expenditures from the account may be made only to pay unreimbursed medical expenses when the total of those expenses is at least $10,000 and the expenses are incurred because of the illness of or injury to a state employee or the employee's spouse or dependent. An expenditure on behalf of an employee may not exceed the total transferred into the account established by subdivision 2 because of a donation or donations of vacation time for the benefit of that employee. Subd. 4. [STUDY; TRANSPLANT SURGERY.] The commissioner of commerce shall study the feasibility of: (1) requiring all policies or plans of health, medical, hospitalization, or accident and sickness insurance, and all health maintenance organizations providing coverage of or reimbursement for inpatient hospital and medical expenses to cover the costs of nonexperimental transplant surgery; and (2) defining experimental and nonexperimental transplant surgery for purposes of this subdivision. The commissioner shall report the results of the study and any recommendations resulting from the study to the legislature by January 15, 1991. Sec. 2. [EFFECTIVE DATE.] Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. Presented to the governor May 16, 1989 Signed by the governor May 19, 1989, 4:40 p.m.
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