1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to public safety; requiring the Peace Officers Standards and Training 
1.3 	Board to develop training materials and offer a course to peace officers on best 
1.4 	practices in policing immigrant communities; appropriating money;proposing 
1.5 	coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 626.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [626.8472] POLICING IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES; MATERIALS 
1.8 	AND TRAINING.
1.9 		Subdivision 1.Training course; policing immigrant communities. The 
1.10 	board must prepare a training course to educate peace officers in the best practices for 
1.11 	policing in immigrant communities. The board must offer and present the training 
1.12 	course semiannually. Participation in the course is voluntary but shall earn participants 
1.13 	continuing education credit. The course must be updated periodically as the board 
1.14 	considers appropriate.
1.15 		Subd. 2.In-service training; board requirements. The board must provide to chief 
1.16 	law enforcement officers instructional materials patterned after the materials developed 
1.17 	by the board under subdivision 1. These materials must meet board requirements for 
1.18 	continuing education credit and be updated periodically as the board considers appropriate.

1.19 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.20 	$....... is appropriated from the general fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1.21 	2007, to the Executive Director of the Peace Officers Standards and Training Board to 
1.22 	implement section 1.