1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; fair campaign practices;
1.3 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 211B.13,
1.4 	subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 211B.13,
1.7 	subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Bribery, advancing money, and treating
1.9 	prohibited.  A person who willfully, directly or indirectly,
1.10 	advances, pays, gives, promises, or lends any money, food,
1.11 	liquor, clothing, entertainment, or other thing of monetary
1.12 	value, or who offers, promises, or endeavors to obtain any
1.13 	money, position, appointment, employment, or other valuable
1.14 	consideration, to or for a person, in order to induce a voter to
1.15 	refrain from voting, or to vote in a particular way, at an
1.16 	election, is guilty of a felony.  This section does not prevent
1.17 	a candidate from stating publicly preference for or support of
1.18 	another candidate to be voted for at the same primary or
1.19 	election.  Refreshments of food or nonalcoholic beverages of
1.20 	nominal value consumed on the premises at a private gathering or
1.21 	public meeting or distributed at a public parade are not
1.22 	prohibited under this section.

1.23 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.24 	This act is effective the day following final enactment.