1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; allowing campaign workers
1.3 	access to multiple unit dwellings unaccompanied by a
1.4 	candidate; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section
1.5 	211B.20, subdivision 1.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 211B.20,
1.8 	subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.9 		Subdivision 1.Prohibition.  It is unlawful for a person,
1.10 	either directly or indirectly, to deny access to an apartment
1.11 	house, dormitory, nursing home, manufactured home park, other
1.12 	multiple unit facility used as a residence, or an area in which
1.13 	two or more single-family dwellings are located on private
1.14 	roadways to a candidate who has filed for election to public
1.15 	office or to a campaign workers accompanied by the
1.16 	candidate worker, if the candidate and workers or worker seeking
1.17 	admittance to the facility do does so solely for the purpose of
1.18 	campaigning for a candidate or ballot question, registering
1.19 	voters, or getting out the vote.  A violation of this section is
1.20 	a petty misdemeanor.