1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to crime; modifying crime of fleeing a peace officer;amending 
1.3 	Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 609.487, subdivision 4.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 609.487, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
1.6 		Subd. 4.Fleeing officer; death; bodily injury. Whoever flees or attempts to flee by 
1.7 	means of a motor vehicle a peace officer who is acting in the lawful discharge of an official 
1.8 	duty, and the perpetrator knows or should reasonably know the same to be a peace officer, 
1.9 	and who in the course of fleeing in a motor vehicle or subsequently by other means causes 
1.10 	the death of a human being not constituting murder or manslaughter or any bodily injury 
1.11 	to any person other than the perpetrator may be sentenced to imprisonment as follows:
1.12 	(a) if the course of fleeing results in death, to imprisonment for not more than 40 
1.13 	years or to payment of a fine of not more than $80,000, or both; or
1.14 	(b) if the course of fleeing results in great bodily harm, to imprisonment for not more 
1.15 	than seven years or to payment of a fine of not more than $14,000, or both; or
1.16 	(c) if the course of fleeing results in substantial bodily harm, to imprisonment for not 
1.17 	more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.

1.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2009, and applies to crimes 
1.19 	committed on or after that date.