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SF 2486 Senate Long Description

Relating to criminal justice and public safetyARTICLE 1 � SEX OFFENDER SENTENCING PROVISIONSModifying certain provisions providing for the sentencing of +predatory sex offenders; requiring inmates sentenced for sex offenses to serve +conditional release terms and inmates serving mandatory life sentences to serve +an indeterminate sentence or the minimum term of imprisonment before +receiving supervised or conditional release; expanding certain provisions +requiring the commissioner of corrections to determine the appropriateness of civil commitment of sex offenders and to convene end of confinement review +committees to determine the risk level of predatory offenders; defining +predatory crime and sex offense and certain other terms relating to sentencing; +creating indeterminate or mandatory life sentences for certain criminal sexual+ conduct crimes; defining and providing for the crime of criminal sexual +predatory conduct, imposing penalties, doubling the minimum term of +imprisonment applicable to the predatory crime upon conviction; imposing +indeterminate sentences for certain sex offenses, specifying minimum and maximum +terms of imprisonment, prohibiting stay and imposing lifetime conditional +release; imposing mandatory minimum sentences for certain dangerous patterned +sex offenders and for repeat or aggravated offenses, requiring increased +sentences under certain conditions and providing for court determination of +danger to public safety; requiring conditional release for certain sex +offenders, providing for the length and specifying the terms; requiring the +sentencing guidelines commission to review the new and increased penalties for +consistency of presumptive sentences with the assessment by the legislature of +the severity of the crimes, requiring an increase in presumptive sentences under +certain conditions; repealing certain existing provisions providing for +mandatory increased sentences for certain patterned and predatory offenders and+ for presumptive and mandatory sentences for repeat sex offenders, +specifying a certain amended and recodified note requirement of the revisor of +statutes ARTICLE 2 � MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER REVIEW BOARDEstablishing the Minnesota sex offender review board, specifying +membership requirements and providing for appointment to the board; specifying +certain responsibilities of the board relating to determination of +conditional release; providing for petitions to the board for release, specifying certain +hearing requirements; requiring and providing for the commissioner of +corrections to establish criteria and procedures for the board and criteria and +procedures to govern the review and release of sex offenders subject to +indeterminate sentences and report to the legislature by a certain date ARTICLE 3 � TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING CHANGESMaking technical and conforming changes to certain statutory +provisions relating to programs for adult offenders committed to the +commissioner of corrections, the registration of predatory offenders, supervised or +conditional release, civil commitment of sexual psychopathic personalities and +sexually dangerous persons, grants to community corrections agencies, DNA +analysis of certain offenders, evidence in criminal sexual conduct cases, victim +identity records confidentiality, a certain medical purpose exclusion and the +exclusion of spectators from the courtroom; specifying certain renumbering and+ cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes(ra)