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HF 2953 House Long Description

HF 2953

SECOND ENGROSSMENT

Omnibus public safety bill appropriating money and establishing programs and policies for the courts, corrections, public safety, law enforcement, illegal immigration, and other criminal justice agencies

ARTICLE 1 ¿ PUBLIC SAFETY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1: Supplemental appropriations provided.
Sec. 2: Supereme court money appropriated.
Sec. 3: Board of judicial standards money appropriated.
Sec. 4: Public safety money appropriated.
Sec. 5: Corrections money appropriated.
Sec. 6: Secretary of state money appropriated.
Sec. 7: Peace officer standards and training board [ POST ] money appropriated and transferred.
Sec. 8: Community services money appropriated including sex offender supervision and GPS monitoring.

ARTICLE 2 ¿ GENERAL CRIMINAL AND SENTENCING PROVISIONS

Section 1: Aggravated departure procedure established.
Sec. 2: Defendant presentation of evidence and argument modified.
Sec. 3: Jury determination waiver modified.
Sec. 4: Customer sales or service call center requirements regulations established.
Sec. 5: Alcohol without liquid devices prohibited.
Sec. 6: Bodily harm and related terms defined.
Sec. 7: Requirements modified.
Sec. 8: Seizure modified.
Sec. 9: Confinement and control for regulated animals causing harm provided.
Sec. 10: Penalty provided.
Sec. 11: Domestic abuse no contact order modified.
Sec. 12: Qualified domestic violence-related offense definition modified.
Sec. 13: Increased sentence for offender who commits a sixth felony modified.
Sec. 14: Prosecutor establishment of factfinder evidence modified.
Sec. 15: Increased penalties for crimes motivated by bias established.
Sec. 16: Assaults motivated by bias regulations expanded.
Sec. 17: Public employees with mandated duties inclusion of animal control officer provided.
Sec. 18: Felony modified.
Sec. 19: Technical modification to caregiver neglect or abuse of vulnerable adult provided.
Sec. 20: Penalties for caregiver neglect provided.
Sec. 21: Labor trafficking crime established.
Sec. 22: Sex or labor trafficking crime clarified.
Sec. 23: Personal body or cosmetic services clarified.
Sec. 24: Third degree criminal sexual conduct crime expanded to include personal body or cosmetic services.
Sec. 25: Conforming change.
Sec. 26: Engrained offender mandatory sentence provided.
Sec. 27: Mandatory life sentence clarified.
Sec. 28: Conditional release term clarified.
Sec. 29: Venue clarified.
Sec. 30: Sentencing guidelines for theft modified.
Sec. 31: Criminal damage to property in the first degree limits modified.
Sec. 32: Criminal damage to property in the second degree limits modified.
Sec. 33: Criminal damage to property in the third degree modified.
Sec. 34: Currency counterfeiting crime established.
Sec. 35-36: Conditional release term provided.
Sec. 37: Federal law enforcement officer definition modified.
Sec. 38-41: Effective dates modified.
Sec. 42: Sentencing guidelines modifications provided.
Sec. 43: Collateral consequences committee established.
Sec. 44: Revisor¿s instruction.
Sec. 45: Repealer.

ARTICLE 3 ¿ CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, DWI, AND DRIVING PROVISIONS

Section 1: Drug paraphernalia definition modified.
Sec. 2: Drug paraphernalia sale prohibited.
Sec. 3: Drug paraphernalia possession prohibited and crime established.
Sec. 4: Prosecution deferral for certain first time drug offenders modified.
Sec. 5: Exhibition driving regulations modified.
Sec. 6: Driving impairment crime clarified.
Sec. 7: Instruction permit use by person under age 18 crime clarified.
Sec. 8: Provisional license usage regulations modified.
Sec. 9: Chemically dependent person definition modified to include opium.
Sec. 10: Remediation of harm caused by misdemeanor convictions for minors driving with mobile phones provided.
Sec. 11: Repealer.

ARTICLE 4 ¿ PUBLIC SAFETY

Section 1: Governor¿s residence employees and governor employee background checks authorized.
Sec. 2: Related terms defined.
Sec. 3: Address confidentiality program established.
Sec. 4: Certification cancellation provided.
Sec. 5: Designated address usage by agency provided.
Sec. 6: Program participant voting registration authorized.
Sec. 7: Prohibited records disclosure exceptions provided.
Sec. 8: Assistance for program applicants provided.
Sec. 9: Rule adoption provided.
Sec. 10: Juvenile offender photographs provided.
Sec. 11: Name and index service and data classification provided.
Sec. 12: Public safety peer counseling and debriefing provided.
Sec. 13: Registration requirements expanded.
Sec. 14: Registration contents modified.
Sec. 15: Health care facility status notice modified.
Sec. 16: Registration period modified.
Sec. 17: Law enforcement agency notification that school, day care facility is in neighborhood along with a level III predatory offender.
Sec. 18: Fire safety surcharge imposed.
Sec. 19: Fire insurance surcharge imposed.
Sec. 20: Multiple law enforcement operations conflicts notice required.
Sec. 21: Preemption of local law relating to illegal immegration provided.
Sec. 22: Statewide human trafficking assessment required.
Sec. 23: Trafficking study required.
Sec. 24: Trafficking victim assistance provided.
Sec. 25: Human trafficking task force established.
Sec. 26: Unidentified persons / human remains reporting regulated.
Sec. 27: Retention procedures clarified.
Sec. 28: Law enforcement agency term definition modified.
Sec. 29: Task force modified.
Sec. 30: Responsibilities modified.
Sec. 31: Appeal policy modified.
Sec. 32: Fire safety account established.
Sec. 33: Related terms defined.
Sec. 34: Carbon monoxide alarm requirements provided.
Sec. 35: Enforcement modified.
Sec. 36: Inquiry and request search and notification modified.
Sec. 37: Victim notification harrasment and domestic assault regulations modified.
Sec. 38: Suspension, revocation, or refusal to renew certification regulations for petition modified.
Sec. 39: Related terms defined.
Sec. 40: Procedure applicability conditions provided.
Sec. 41: Information required to be given to individuals specified.
Sec. 42: Positive bloodborne pathogen test result disclosure required.
Sec. 43: Consent procedures clarified.
Sec. 44: Available blood testing required.
Sec. 45: Blood sample collection for testing procedures established.
Sec. 46: Discrimination prohibited.
Sec. 47: Test result usage provided.
Sec. 48: Test information confidentiality provided.
Sec. 49: Unauthorized release of information penalty provided.
Sec. 50: Testing and treatment cost responsibility provided.
Sec. 51: Bloodborne pathogen exposure protocols provided.
Sec. 52: Penalties and immunity provided.
Sec. 53: Richfield disabled firefighter health care eligibility review provided.
Sec. 54: Repealer.

ARTICLE 5 ¿ CORRECTIONS

Section 1: Chaplains eliminated from list of unclassified positions.
Sec. 2: Drug education materials authorized for inmates.
Sec. 3: Inmate screening required.
Sec. 4: Inmate health care decisions agent specified.
Sec. 5: Drug education authorized.
Sec. 6: Notification requirements clarified.
Sec. 7: Drug education authorized.
Sec. 8: Fee imposition modified.
Sec. 9: Employment continuation clarified.
Sec. 10: Report to legislature and study on sexual offence recidivism required.
Sec. 11: Transition.

ARTICLE 6 ¿ COURTS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

Section 1: Court services data term clarified.
Sec. 2-24: Technical modifications, conforming changes, effective dates, and statutory references provided.
Sec. 25: Trial rule location specified.
Sec. 26: Pleading practice and procedure regulated.
Sec. 27: Misdemeanor offences specified.
Sec. 28: Forfeited sum reinstatement provided.
Sec. 29: Fine disposition provided.
Sec. 30: Ramsey County district court fine disposition provided.
Sec. 31: Court divisions provided.
Sec. 32: Criminal proceedings pleading, practice, procedure regulations provided.
Sec. 33: County attorney as prosecutor notice required.
Sec. 34: Prison release order required.
Sec. 35: Court administrator fees payable specified.
Sec. 36: Misdemeanor violations bureaus established.
Sec. 37: Additional employees provided.
Sec. 38: Bond appointment duties modified.
Sec. 39: Fee collection modified.
Sec. 40: Fund investment deposit provided.
Sec. 41: Deputies modified.
Sec. 42: St. Louis County deputy court administrator named.
Sec. 43: Calendar stipulations modified.
Sec. 44: Fine disposition regulations modified.
Sec. 45: Administrator fees modified.
Sec. 46: Duty to appoint court commissioner modified.
Sec. 47: Minimum standards plan modified.
Sec. 48: Entry and enforcement of forign protective orders provided.
Sec. 49: Board of judicial standards review provided.
Sec. 50: Witness ocmpetency provided.
Sec. 51: Minimum fines and other crimes established.
Sec. 52: Public defender right to representation regulation expanded.
Sec. 53: Public defender request for appointment regulations modified.
Sec. 54: Public defender appointment modified.
Sec. 55: Conforming changes.
Sec. 56: Defended persons regulations clarified.
Sec. 57: Pretrial bail evaluation modified.
Sec. 58: District jail designation modified.
Sec. 59: Date extended.
Sec. 60: Uncollected fines and penalties task force established.
Sec. 61: Repealer.

ARTICLE 7 ¿ EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

Section 1: Combined local access surcharge modified.
Sec. 2: Secondary public safety answering point term defined.
Sec. 3: Contractual requrements modified.
Sec. 4: Service agreements provided.
Sec. 5: Duties modified.
Sec. 6: Emergency telecommunications service fee account modified.
Sec. 7: Payment method provided.
Sec. 8: Timely invoices required.
Sec. 9: Invoice declaration modified.
Sec. 10: Audit modified.
Sec. 11: Fee usage modified.
Sec. 12: Local expenditures modified.
Sec. 13: Board term definition modified.
Sec. 14: Plan term definition modified.
Sec. 15: Subsystems term definition modified.
Sec. 16: System backbone term definition modified.
Sec. 17: Local palnning process specified.
Sec. 18: Statewide system usage modified.
Sec. 19: Membership of statewide radio board modified.
Sec. 20: Advisory groups modified.
Sec. 21: Repealer.

ARTICLE 8 ¿ IMMIGRATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT
Section 1: Illegal immigration enforcement provided.
Sec. 2: Required fingerprinting modified.
Sec. 3: Citizenship data maintenance requirements provided.
Sec. 4: Conforming change.
Sec. 5: Citizenship and immigration data modified.

ARTICLE 9 ¿ FRAUDULENT OR IMPROPER FINANCING STATEMENTS

Section 1: Related term definitions modified.
Sec. 2: Notarial acts expanded to include electronic records.
Sec. 3: Certificate of notarial acts modified.
Sec. 4: Acknowledgement effect modified.
Sec. 5: Registration to perform electronic notarizations provided.
Sec. 6: Specifications modified.
Sec. 7: Electronic seal for notaries detailed.
Sec. 8: Powers modified.
Sec. 9-10: Conforming change.
Sec. 11: Expedited financing statement review process provided.
Sec. 12: Civil liability for fraudulent or otherwise improper financing statements provided.
Sec. 13: Fraudulent or otherwise improper financing statements prevention measures established.

ARTICLE 10 ¿ FRAUDULENT IDENTITY DOCUMENTS

Section 1: Related terms defined.
Sec. 2: Fraudulent identification cards crime established.
Sec. 3: Related definitions modified.
Sec. 4: Criminal acts conforming change provided.
Sec. 5: Penalties expanded.

ARTICLE 11 ¿ COMPUTER CRIMES

Section 1: Applicability provided.
Sec. 2: Computer security system defined.
Sec. 3: Encryption defined.
Sec. 4: Personal data defined.
Sec. 5: Crime of unauthorized computer access provided.
Sec. 6: Penalties provided.
Sec. 7: Criminal use of encryption crime established.
Sec. 8: Computer security system access facilitation crime established.

ARTICLE 12 ¿ IMMIGRATION EMPLOYMENT VIOLATIONS

Section 1: Employer violation of federal immigration law prohibited.

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4/24/06