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Minnesota Session Laws - 2015, Regular Session
Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
CHAPTER 26--S.F.No. 1438
An act
relating to administrative rules; modifying requirements of a retired workers' compensation judges provision;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 14.49.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 14.49, is amended to read:
14.49 TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES.
When regularly appointed administrative law judges are not available, the chief administrative law judge may contract with qualified individuals to serve as administrative law judges. Such temporary administrative law judges shall not be employees of the state. Compensation judges must be employees of the state, except deleted text begin thatdeleted text end new text begin in the following instances: (1)new text end when all available regularly appointed compensation judges are disqualified from a specific case under the Code of Judicial Conduct, the chief administrative law judge may contract with a workers' compensation attorney or former workers' compensation judge to serve as a compensation judge for that casedeleted text begin .deleted text end new text begin ; and (2) when regularly appointed workers' compensation judges are not available to hear pending cases on a timely basis, the chief administrative law judge may contract with a retired workers' compensation judge, formerly an employee of the state, to serve as a workers' compensation judge.new text end
Presented to the governor May 11, 2015
Signed by the governor May 14, 2015, 6:40 p.m.
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