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SF 1586 Senate Long Description

Creating the Minnesota center for crime victims services as an independent office under the supervision of a director to be appointed by the governor; specifying duties, transferring certain powers and duties of the commissioners of corrections and public safety to the center and requiring the department of public safety to provide the center with certain support services; requiring the director to consider recommendations of the appropriate advisory council before awarding grants or adopting rules, policies or procedures relating to programs and services for victims; prohibiting certain conflicts of interest; specifying certain duties of grantees; requiring and providing for the director in consultation with the sexual assault advisory council to award grants in aid to sexual assault programs and providing for application by nonprofit agencies and tribal governments providing direct advocacy services; modifying certain membership requirements and duties of the sexual assault advisory council; requiring and providing for director employment of a sexual assault program manager; providing for grants to battered women programs in consultation with the battered women advisory council, making the council a temporary council, requiring diversity in membership and modifying certain duties of the council and the general crime victims advisory council; requiring the director to employ battered women and general crime victims programs managers and providing for grants to general crime victim programs; transferring the crime victims reparations board from the department of public safety to the center and requiring diversity in membership and director appointment of a program manager for claims decision making purposes; transferring the responsibility for grants to prosecutors and victim assistance programs from the crime victim and witness advisory council to the general crime victims advisory council and modifying certain crime victim and witness advisory council membership representation requirements and duties, requiring a program manager; transferring the responsibility for the crime victim services telephone line from the commissioner of public safety to the office of the crime victims ombudsman; providing for the transfer of certain penalty assessments to the center; defining or redefining certain terms under general crime victims provisions; requiring prosecution plans to be kept on file with the center and requiring the director to evaluate the effectiveness of the prosecution plan pilot program; repealing the statewide program developed by the commissioner of corrections to aid victims of reported sexual attacks, certain powers of the commissioner, certain definitions, crime victim crisis centers and the crime victim services roundtable (ra)