Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2221

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government
ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the supreme court for
operations, for legal services to low income clients and family farmers, for the
criminal and juvenile justice information system, for a grant writer, for
regional adult detention facility construction planning grants, for certain
precommitment detention costs, for crime victim services center mediation
programs for crime victims and offenders and for law library operations, to the
court of appeals, to the district courts for new judge units, for referee
conversions and continued funding of the community court in the second and
fourth judicial districts, for statewide expansion of video technology in the
court system and for infrastructure upgrading, to the board on judicial
standards, to the tax court, to the department of public safety for emergency
management including bomb disposal reimbursements, for the bureau of criminal
apprehension for the statewide criminal and juvenile justice data information
system upgrade, for certain laboratory facilities and for DNA testing of
predatory offenders, for the state fire marshal, for alcohol and gambling
enforcement, for certain law enforcement facility grants and community projects,
for reconvening of the fire and law enforcement training facilities statewide
master plan task force, for the criminal gang oversight council and strike
force, for assistance to volunteer ambulance services to purchase
defibrillators, for teenage prostitution intervention and prevention, for
CODEFOR responses, for weed and seed, violence reduction and juvenile crime
intervention and prevention grants and for the Camp Ripley weekend camp program,
to the crime victim services center for the crime victims reparations board and
for certain crime victims services including battered women shelters and a
residential program for women leaving prostitution and for grants to the
Minnesota state colleges and universities board of trustees (MnSCU) to assess
violence in Asian-Pacific communities, to the fourth judicial district family
violence coordinating council and to the city of St. Paul for support services
to the surviving family members of victims of homicide, suicide and accidental
death, to the crime victim ombudsman, to the private detective and protective
agent services, peace officer standards and training (POST), public defense and
automobile theft prevention boards, to the department of corrections for certain
correctional facilities, for juvenile services, for intensive community
supervision, for probation officer caseload and workload reduction and
restorative justice programs grants, for probation officer reimbursements, for
the emergency housing initiative, for sentencing to service, sex offender
transition, adult female offenders and productive day initiative programs, for
certain community corrections agencies, for the juvenile mentoring project and
for management services, to the corrections ombudsman, to the sentencing
guidelines and uniform laws commissions, to the department of human rights, to
the department of administration for completion of design documents and site
preparation for the new BCA facility and for maintenance of the former
correctional facility at Sauk Centre and to the department of economic security
for grants to first class cities for curfew enforcement, truancy prevention and
pretrial diversion programs; providing a deficiency appropriation to provide
matching funds for federal emergency management assistance funds received for
natural disaster assistance payments; requiring the commissioner of public
safety to develop a bomb disposal and domestic terrorism response services
implementation plan and to administer a program to distribute tire deflators and
driving simulators to local or state law enforcement agencies; transferring
powers and duties relating to the Asian-American juvenile crime intervention and
prevention grant program from the department of human services to the department
of public safety; providing for certain corrections staff reductions; requiring
certain studies and reports; providing for the continued availability of certain
prior appropriations and for certain fund transfers, sunsetting uncodified
languageARTICLE 2 - CRIME PREVENTION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS Transferring the
Asian-American juvenile crime intervention and prevention grant program from the
commissioner of human services to the commissioner of public safety and the
powers and duties relating to the office of drug policy and violence prevention
and the chemical abuse and violence prevention council from the department of
children, families and learning to the department of public safety, authorizing
the commissioner to use the office for activities relating to crime prevention
and enforcement; expanding eligibility for the community oriented policing grant
program (COPS); increasing the membership of the criminal and juvenile justice
policy group task force and requiring, providing for policy group review of
funding requests for criminal justice information systems grants and clarifying
certain legislative reporting requirements, requiring the legislative commission
on planning and fiscal policy (LCPFP) to report to the legislature by a certain
date on the advisability of using county criminal justice aid to encourage the
development of the systems; authorizing the commissioner to award grants to
local government units to conduct compliance checks for on-sale and off-sale
intoxicating liquor license holders; requiring and providing for supreme court
grants to judicial districts for regional adult detention facilities
construction planning; requiring the executive director of the center for crime
victim services to administer a pilot project grant program for nonprofit
organizations to provide certain neighborhood based services to crime victims
and witnesses; authorizing and providing for Dakota county to establish a
community justice zone pilot project including the redesign of juvenile court;
requiring the executive director of the center for crime victim services to
award a grant to a nonprofit organization to develop and administer a
residential program for women leaving prostitution; authorizing the commissioner
of administration and the city of Bemidji to enter into a lease purchase
agreement for the acquisition of a northern satellite laboratory facility for
the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA); authorizing and providing for the
fourth judicial district to establish a domestic fatality review team pilot
project; requiring certain reports to the legislature; specifying certain
renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes
ARTICLE 3 - GENERAL CRIMINAL PROVISIONS Imposing a minimum fine for minors
violating the underage drinking law; establishing a postconviction process for
obtaining fingerprint or DNA testing of evidence not available at trial to
permit convicted persons to demonstrate actual innocence; clarifying the
authority of the court to convict or impose punishment for other crimes as part
of the crime of fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle, consecutive
sentences not to be a departure from sentencing guidelines; expanding DNA
analysis requirements to certain predatory offenders; specifying certain
renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the work program
for certain nonviolent felony offenders ARTICLE 4 - CORRECTIONS Creating an
exception to the prohibition on using state appropriations to pay for art in
correctional facilities; requiring the department of corrections to issue an
annual performance report; authorizing the commissioner of corrections to
establish minimum training service requirements and the maximum amount of
funding to be annually expended to provide training services to juvenile
detention services subsidy program staff and to establish a schedule of
correctional fees to charge persons convicted of crimes, providing for
collection and for certain exemptions; expanding the provision providing for the
establishment of productive day initiative programs in Hennepin, Ramsey and St.
Louis counties to all counties; requiring counties to pay the costs of
committing juvenile females to the commissioner; establishing the Minnesota
correctional facility-Rush City under the control and management of the
commissioner; prohibiting local probation and parole or community corrections
agencies to fees on criminal offenders required to pay a fee to the
commissioner; requiring the transfer of offenders sentenced to the Camp Ripley
work program to the sentencing county by a certain date; requiring the
assessment for excellence task force to assist the commissioner of
administration in developing a request for proposals to operate the educational
program at the Red Wing correctional facility, requiring selection of a private
vendor by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of corrections to study
correctional facility staffing and the supervision of sex offenders and report
to the legislature by certain dates and to transfer residents of the Sauk Centre
correctional facility to other facilities before a certain date; authorizing the
commissioner to develop and issue a request for proposals to provide temporary
residential services to juvenile females; repealing the pilot project work
program at Camp Ripley ARTICLE 5 - LAW ENFORCEMENT Requiring the automobile
theft prevention board to perform annual plan and program effectiveness audits
and to provide financial support for improved equipment and techniques for
responding to automobile thefts; extending the provision providing for the
release of certain juvenile court delinquency proceedings records to law
enforcement agencies and prosecuting authorities for gang crimes investigation
and prosecution purposes; requiring and providing for law enforcement agency
posttraumatic stress syndrome benefits to peace officers; specifying certain
criminal gang council annual report content requirements; requiring biannual
reports to the legislature by the peace officer standards and training board and
requiring the board by a certain date to adopt a new or revised model policy
governing the conduct of peace officers in pursuit of suspects fleeing in a
motor vehicle and chief law enforcement officers to establish and enforce
policies complying with the model policy, requiring preservice and in-service
training in police pursuits, authorizing the board to impose sanctions for
failure to comply and requiring POST board annual compliance reviews; modifying
part time peace officer training and examination requirements and imposing a cap
on the number of part time peace officers per agency; requiring the
superintendent of the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) to conduct a capitol
complex security study addressing general security and specific security for
constitutional officers, legislators, justices, state employees and visitors and
report to the governor and legislature by a certain date; requiring the
commissioners of public safety, finance and planning to establish a work group
to study the issues of disasters and extraordinary emergency expenses caused by
disasters for reimbursement or assistance purposes ARTICLE 6 - OTHER PROVISIONS
Increasing the number of judges in the first, second, fourth, seventh, ninth and
tenth judicial districts and reducing the number of judges in the fifth judicial
district; requiring end of confinement review committees to determine residency
restrictions for risk level III sex offenders upon release, requiring mitigation
of the concentration of level III offenders; increasing the state share of
fiscal responsibility for confinement before civil commitment; requiring the
commissioner of human services to develop recommended standards for foster care
homes; establishing standards for out of home placements of juveniles; requiring
counties to develop policies for classifying juvenile offenders and court
disposition orders to state intended outcomes for out of home placements;
requiring and providing for agency development of case plans for certain longer
term out of home placements and requiring county implementation and monitoring
of transitional plans for certain children discharged from residential programs,
requiring annual goals achievement reports to the legislature by the
commissioners of corrections and human services; expanding damage liability and
civil remedies for the unlawful release of animals lawfully confined for
science, research, commerce or education, imposing third party liability on
persons or organizations assisting in unlawful releases, creating a rebuttable
presumption of involvement of persons or organizations claiming responsibility
for the act; requiring the supreme court to establish a program for training,
testing, registering and certifying qualified court interpreters, authorizing
rules; expanding the district court housing calendar consolidation program;
transferring responsibilities for awarding grants for mediation programs for
crime victims and offenders from the state court administrator to the executive
director of the center for crime victim services and for operation and funding
of battered women shelters from the commissioner of corrections to the executive
director, prohibiting general assistance (GA) payments to shelter residents
after a certain date; requesting the chief justice of the supreme court to
convene a task force on juvenile out of home placement goals to report certain
recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the
commissioners of corrections and human services to convene task forces to
identify ways to collect information on juvenile out of home placements and to
adopt uniform definitions for measuring residential program completion rates for
juveniles, requiring reports to the legislature; requiring the commissioners to
study issues involving culturally appropriate services for juveniles in juvenile
court and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the department
of human services to continue to review and monitor the social services
information system to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data on juvenile
out of home placements ARTICLE 7 - STATE FUNDING OF PROGRAMS AND JUDICIAL
DISTRICTS; COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Designating court employees and guardians ad
litem in the fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth judicial districts as state
employees and providing eligibility for state paid benefits for the employees
and for employees of the state board of public defense; establishing collective
bargaining provisions for court employees; providing for state assumption of
certain district court costs; requesting the supreme court to establish a task
force to study and make recommendations on a system for funding and
administering court appointed attorney functions in civil cases, requiring a
report to the legislature by a certain date; transitional provisions, imposing a
hiring and salary moratorium, providing for the transfer of certain property,
authorizing supreme court rules, specifying certain budget requirements;
requesting the supreme court to prepare a plan for state assumption of court
administration costs in all judicial districts and report to the legislature by
a certain date; providing an effective date contingency (mk, ja)