HF 1225

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to crime prevention; allowing aggregation of 
  1.3             certain prostitution offense prosecutions; amending 
  1.4             Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 609.322, by adding a 
  1.5             subdivision.  
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 609.322, is 
  1.8   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 1c.  [AGGREGATION OF CASES.] Acts by the defendant in 
  1.10  violation of any one or more of the provisions in this section 
  1.11  within any six-month period may be aggregated and the defendant 
  1.12  charged accordingly in applying the provisions of this section; 
  1.13  provided that when two or more offenses are committed by the 
  1.14  same person in two or more counties, the accused may be 
  1.15  prosecuted in any county in which one of the offenses was 
  1.16  committed for all of the offenses aggregated under this 
  1.17  paragraph.  
  1.18     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  1.19     Section 1 is effective August 1, 2003, and applies to 
  1.20  crimes committed on or after that date.