hf2404FIRST ENGROSSMENTOmnibus crime prevention and judiciary finance bill.ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONSSection 1: criminal justice appropriations summary provided. Sec. 2: supreme court operations, legal services, and state court administration appropriations provided. Sec. 3: court of appeals appropriation provided. Sec. 4: district courts appropriation provided. Sec. 5: board of judicial standards appropriation provided. Sec. 6: tax court appropriation provided. Sec. 7: public safety appropriation provided including criminal apprehension, fire marshal, alcohol and gambling enforcement, and law enforcement and community grants (including CODEFOR demonstration grant). Sec. 8: crime victim services center appropriation provided. Sec. 9: crime victim ombudsman appropriation provided. Sec. 10: board of private detective and protective agent services appropriation provided. Sec. 11: board of peace officer standards and training appropriation provided. Sec. 12: board of public defense appropriation provided. Sec. 13: department of corrections appropriation provided including correctional institution, juvenile services, community services, and management services funding. Sec. 14: corrections ombudsman appropriation provided. Sec. 15: sentencing guidelines commission appropriation provided. Sec. 16: human rights appropriation provided. Sec. 17: uniform laws commission appropriation provided. Sec. 18: administration department appropriation provided. Sec. 19: attorney general appropriation provided for a grant to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Advisory Council. Sec. 20: auto theft prevention board appropriation provided. Sec. 21: previous federal matching funds deficiency appropriation provided. Sec. 22: uncodified language sunset provided.ARTICLE 2 - SENTENCING PROVISIONS Sec. 1: three strikes; third time violent felony offenders minimum life sentence defined. Sec. 2: supervised release provided for third time violent felony offenders after minimum term of imprisonment served. Sec. 3-5: fleeing a peace officer not considered a bar to prosecution for offenses committed as part of the same conduct. Sec. 6: three strikes; third time violent felony offenders mandatory life imprisonment sentence imposed, and violent crime definition clarified. Sec. 7: certain offenders required to provide biological specimens upon sentencing for purposes of DNA analysis. Sec. 8: certain convicted offenders required to provide biological specimens before completion of term of imprisonment. Sec. 9: instruction to revisor. Sec. 10: effective dates.ARTICLE 3 - PUBLIC SAFETY Sec. 1: disaster aid provided for political subdivisions, and matching fund requirement specified. Sec. 2: work group established to study natural or other disasters, and report to legislature required. Sec. 3: office of drug policy and violence prevention transferred to the department of public safety. Sec. 4-5: chemical abuse and violence prevention council required to advise the commissioner of public safety. Sec. 6-10: neighborhood pilot projects, drug prevention grants, and other duties transferred to the department of public safety. Sec. 11: automobile theft prevention board required to conduct training programs for law enforcement personnel on responding to automobile thefts. Sec. 12: office of drug policy and violence prevention and community advisory violence prevention council powers and duties transferred to the department of public safety. Sec. 13: CODEFOR law enforcement strategy demonstration grant program established for Minneapolis or Hennepin county. Sec. 14: bomb disposal unit reimbursement limitation removed. Sec. 15: criminal and juvenile justice information policy group task force membership expanded. Sec. 16: criminal and juvenile justice information policy group review of criminal justice information system grants provided. Sec. 17: comprehensive criminal justice information integration plan development provided. Sec. 18: integration plan funding request requirements provided. Sec. 19: integration plan grant local math requirements provided. Sec. 20: documentation and reporting requirements provided integration plan grant recipients. Sec. 21: criminal justice information system improvement aid authorized. Sec. 22: pursuit of fleeing suspects by peace officers reporting requirements simplified. Sec. 23: board of peace officer standards and training reference relating to development of pursuit policies stricken. Sec. 24: peace officer conduct during pursuit of fleeing subject requirements provided; statewide policy model provided, agency policies required, preservice training in police pursuits required, in-service training in police pursuits required, licensing sanctions imposed, and injunctive relief provided. Sec. 25: revisor instruction. Sec. 26: repealer. ARTICLE 4 - CORRECTIONS Sec. 1: Definitions provided relating to productive day initiative programs and fee collection. Sec. 2: correctional facility definition modified, and counties encouraged to establish productive day initiative programs. Sec. 3: productive day initiative program components modified. Sec. 4: counties charged for per diem cost of confinement of juvenile females committed to the commissioner of corrections. Sec. 5: Minnesota correctional facility - Rush City established. Sec. 6: local probation and parole agencies prohibited from collecting feels if commissioner of corrections already imposes and collects a fee. Sec. 7: commissioner of corrections authorized to collect correctional fees from convicts. Sec. 8: Camp Ripley work program closed, and offenders transferred back to sentencing counties. Sec. 9: repealer. Sec. 10: effective date.ARTICLE 5 - CRIME VICTIM SERVICES Sec. 1: mediation programs for crime victims and offenders grant authority transferred to executive director of the center for crime victim services. Sec. 2: responsibilities for providing secure crisis shelter transferred to the director of the Minnesota center for crime victim services. Sec. 3: residential programs for women leaving prostitution grant authorized and administered. Sec. 4: pilot project grant program to provide services to crime witnesses established, and report required. Sec. 5: repealer. Sec. 6: effective date. ARTICLE 6 - COURTS PROVISIONS Sec. 1: number of district court judges increased. Sec. 2: judicial branch definition clarified relating to guardian ad litem program employees. Sec. 3: judicial employees eligible for state paid insurance provisions clarified. Sec. 4: court reporter payment provided by state courts. Sec. 5: civil commitment proceedings examiners payment provided by state courts. Sec. 6: civil commitment transcripts costs paid by state courts. Sec. 7-10: state payment of guardian ad litem costs provided. Sec. 11: guardian ad litems and other court employees removed from municipal tort liability law. Sec. 12: qualified court interpreter training program established, and fees specified. Sec. 13: guardian ad litem compensation regulated. Sec. 14: state assumption of certain court costs provided, including court interpreter costs, guardian ad litem program and personnel costs, mental commitment costs, other examination costs, in forma pauperis costs, mandated transcript costs, and jury program costs. Sec. 15: housing calendar consolidation program authorized outside the second and fourth judicial districts. Sec. 16: housing calendar consolidation program required to provide for consolidation of landlord-tenant damage actions and actions for rent. Sec. 17: guardian ad litem program coordinators and staff provided Ramsey county judges. Sec. 18: Hennepin county judges provided guardian ad litem program coordinators and staff. Sec. 19: court administrator salaries set by state in counties where administrators are paid by state. Sec. 20: court administrator office budgets set by state in counties where administration is paid for by state. Sec. 21: deputy costs budgeted by state in counties where court costs are paid for by state. Sec. 22: vital statistic documentation duties to become county functions in defined counties. Sec. 23: state-funded judicial district counties exempted from county board determination of employees. Sec. 24: guardian ad litem reimbursements deposited in general fund and credited to separate account appropriated to trial courts. Sec. 25: juror food and lodging paid for by state courts. Sec. 26: qualified per diem interpreter costs paid by state courts. Sec. 27: in forma pauperis proceedings paid for by state. Sec. 28-29: in forma pauperis costs paid credited to the general fund. Sec. 30: interpreter fees and expenses paid for by state courts, except when requested by agencies for purposes other than court appearances. Sec. 31: task force established to study court-appointed attorney costs. Sec. 32: county hiring and salary moratorium imposed. Sec. 33: repealer. Sec. 34: effective dates. ARTICLE 7 - OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO STATE FINANCING OF JUDICIAL DISTRICTS Sec. 1: employees for whom the state court administrator is the negotiating employer deemed not essential employees. Sec. 2: public employee definition modified relating to court employees. Sec. 3: public employer definition extended to include state court administrator for court employees. Sec. 4: court employee definition provided. Sec. 5: confidential court employees, confidential University of Minnesota employees, and supervisory and managerial court employees excluded from bargaining. Sec. 6: assignment authority for court employee classifications granted. Sec. 7: court employee bargaining units set, and exclusions provided. Sec. 8: transition to new bargaining structure provided. Sec. 9: general contract provisions for court employees provided. Sec. 10: state unit election provision applied to judicial branch employees. Sec. 11: commissioner of employee relations designated as employer of executive branch employees. Sec. 12: executive branch negotiation representation provided. Sec. 13: state court representation provided for court employee negotiations, and agreement authority granted state court administrator. Sec. 14: effective date.cth