1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health; appropriating money for research
1.3 	on issues related to sexual crimes.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	(a) $150,000 is appropriated for the fiscal year ending
1.7 	June 30, 2006, and $150,000 is appropriated for the fiscal year
1.8 	ending June 30, 2007, from the general fund to the commissioner
1.9 	of health for the department's Injury and Violence Prevention
1.10 	Unit.  These appropriations must be used to:
1.11 	(1) examine in detail how the financial resources spent to
1.12 	prosecute and incarcerate sex offenders compares with the
1.13 	resources spent to treat the victims of sex crimes and to
1.14 	prevent sexual offending;
1.15 	(2) provide a comparison of the costs, including financial,
1.16 	social, and human costs, of responding to sex crimes to the
1.17 	costs of investing in programs to prevent sex crimes; and 
1.18 	(3) examine the linkages of risk and protective factors in
1.19 	other crime and public health efforts, such as Mothers Against
1.20 	Drunk Driving, youth violence prevention, teen pregnancy,
1.21 	homelessness, and tobacco and drug use.
1.22 	(b) By January 15, 2006, and January 15, 2007, the
1.23 	department's Injury and Violence Prevention Unit shall report to
1.24 	the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and house
2.1 	of representatives committees and divisions having jurisdiction
2.2 	over health and criminal justice policy and finance on the use
2.3 	of these appropriations and the research funded.  The unit shall
2.4 	use the results of this research to identify empirically based
2.5 	early intervention and primary prevention efforts to address the
2.6 	risk and protective factors identified.