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SF 1725 Senate Long Description

Creating an alcohol health impact fund and imposing an alcohol health impact fee on distilled spirits, wines, cider, miniatures and fermented malt beverages; requiring the commissioners of public safety, corrections and human services to certify to the commissioner of finance costs attributable to alcohol and controlled substance use and net tax collection; defining emergency and homeless shelter zones for purpose of controlled substance sales crimes prosecution expansion; including school bus stops within the definition of school zone; expanding driving while impaired (DWI) nonfelony violations mandatory penalties conditions; requiring chemical use assessments to be conducted as early as possible after arrest; authorizing jurisdictional courts to order chemical use assessments; requiring the commissioner of human services to adopt criteria to be used for prostitution assessment and treatment during presentence investigation; modifying the definition of American Indian (native American), expanding chemical dependency services and modifying the chemical dependency treatment process; increasing liquor retailer gross revenues and receipts taxes and modifying the deposit requirement and increasing the fermented malt beverages credit; including impaired driving and domestic violence crimes in the community oriented policing grant program (COPS) eligibility and specifying requirements; requiring the commissioner of public safety to establish a short term Phillips neighborhood safe zone pilot project in the city of Minneapolis seeking neighborhood criminal activity reduction, specifying program requirements and requiring an oversight committee; requiring counties to provide comprehensive and needs specific chemical dependency treatment programs, services and aftercare services to individuals in county criminal justice systems; requiring prostitution assessments under certain conditions, specifying assessment requirements; defining violent crime and requiring courts to ensure chemical use assessments on persons convicted of violent crimes, requiring court imposition of a chemical dependency assessment charge, prohibiting waiver; prescribing gross misdemeanor penalties for exclusion order violation; requiring certain persons to receive mandatory chemical dependency treatment; applying increased penalties for certain misdemeanors to trespass; requiring the sentencing guidelines commission to study the feasibility and effectiveness of presumptive and fixed sentences for misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor offenses; requiring the supreme court to include chemical use assessments in education program training; appropriating money to the commissioners of public safety and corrections; repealing provisions relating to the chemical dependency allocation process and Indian reservation allocation of chemical dependency fund
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