House Journal: Page 1401: Monday, April 19, 1999

28   from the institutional budgets to pay approved tort

29   claims for the balance of the fiscal year.  The warden
30   or superintendent of each institution or correctional
31   facility shall designate an employee to receive,
32   investigate, and recommend whether to pay any properly
33   filed inmate tort claim for less than the above
34   amount.  The designee's recommendation shall be
35   approved or denied by the warden or superintendent and
36   forwarded to the department of corrections for final
37   approval and payment.  The amounts appropriated to
38   this fund pursuant to 1987 Iowa Acts, chapter 234,
39   section 304, subsection 2, are not subject to
40   reversion under section 8.33.
41     b.  Tort claims denied at the institution shall be
42   forwarded to the state appeal board for their
43   consideration as if originally filed with that body.
44   This procedure shall be used in lieu of chapter 669
45   for inmate tort claims of less than $100.
46     3.  It is the intent of the general assembly that
47   the department of corrections shall timely fill
48   correctional positions authorized for correctional
49   facilities pursuant to this section.
50     Sec. 5.  DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS -
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 1   ADMINISTRATION.  There is appropriated from the
 2   general fund of the state to the department of
 3   corrections for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
 4   1999, and ending June 30, 2000, the following amounts,
 5   or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
 6   purposes designated:
 7     1.  For general administration, including salaries,
 8   support, maintenance, employment of an education
 9   director and clerk to administer a centralized
10   education program for the correctional system,
11   miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the
12   following full-time equivalent positions:
13   	 $  4,416,916
14   	 FTEs         37.18
15     The department shall monitor the use of the
16   classification model by the judicial district
17   departments of correctional services and has the
18   authority to override a district department's decision
19   regarding classification of community-based clients.
20   The department shall notify a district department of
21   the reasons for the override.
22     It is the intent of the general assembly that as a
23   condition of receiving the appropriation provided in
24   this subsection, the department of corrections shall
25   not enter into a new contract, unless the contract is
26   a renewal of an existing contract, for the expenditure

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