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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 85.59, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code
  1  2 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    For purposes of this section, "inmate" includes a person
  1  4 who is performing unpaid community service under the direction
  1  5 of the district court, board of parole, or judicial district
  1  6 department of correctional services, or an inmate providing
  1  7 services pursuant to a chapter 28E agreement entered into
  1  8 pursuant to section 904.703, or who is performing a work
  1  9 assignment of value to the state or to the public under
  1 10 chapter 232, or who is performing unpaid hard labor while
  1 11 confined in a jail or county detention facility under chapter
  1 12 356 or 356A.  For purposes of this section, "unpaid community
  1 13 service under the direction of the district court" includes
  1 14 but is not limited to community service ordered and performed
  1 15 pursuant to section 598.23A.
  1 16    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  356.20A  LIABILITY OF STATE.
  1 17    The state of Iowa is exclusively liable, according to and
  1 18 under chapter 669, for a tortious act committed by a prisoner
  1 19 while performing unpaid hard labor under sections 356.16
  1 20 through 356.20.  The state of Iowa is exclusively liable for
  1 21 and shall pay any compensation due any person under section
  1 22 85.59 resulting from the performance of the hard labor.
  1 23    Sec. 3.  NEW SECTION.  356A.8  LIABILITY OF STATE.
  1 24    The state of Iowa is exclusively liable, according to and
  1 25 under chapter 669, for a tortious act committed by a prisoner
  1 26 who has been transferred pursuant to section 356A.3 and is
  1 27 performing unpaid hard labor while confined in a county
  1 28 detention facility.  The state of Iowa is exclusively liable
  1 29 for and shall pay any compensation due any person under
  1 30 section 85.59 resulting from the performance of the hard
  1 31 labor.
  1 32    Sec. 4.  Section 669.2, subsection 4, unnumbered paragraph
  1 33 2, Code Supplement 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 34    "Employee of the state" also includes an individual
  1 35 performing unpaid community service under an order of the
  2  1 district court pursuant to section 598.23A and prisoners
  2  2 performing unpaid hard labor while confined in a jail or
  2  3 county detention facility under chapter 356 or 356A.  
  2  4                           EXPLANATION
  2  5    This bill provides that the state is exclusively liable for
  2  6 tortious acts and workers' compensation benefits due because
  2  7 of prisoners of jails or county detention facilities
  2  8 performing hard labor.  
  2  9 LSB 3790HH 77
  2 10 lh/sc/14
     

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