3E Relating to public safety

ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the supreme court for operations, a contingent account, civil legal services, low-income client family matters legal services, the court of appeals, trial courts, tax court, the uniform laws commission, the board on judicial standards, and the board of public defense, requiring criminal justice forum continuation and convening of a civil justice forum, encouraging federal stimulus funds supreme court application, prohibiting judicial or referee vacancy certification, appropriating money to public safety department for emergency management, hazmat (hazardous materials) and chemical assessment teams, criminal apprehension, DWI lab analysis, the fire marshal, alcohol and gambling enforcement, office of justice programs, crime victim and youth intervention programs, administration costs, 911 emergency communication networks, public safety answering points, medical resource communication centers, ARMER debt service, state backbone operating costs and improvements, metropolitan council debt service, next generation 911, and local government grants for ARMER system transition, requiring the office of justice program to give priority to grant awards for federal stimulus money for certain activities and programs, prohibiting funding reduction more than a certain amount for crime victim and youth intervention programs; appropriating money to the peace officer standards and training (POST) board for training reimbursements to local governments, to private detective board, to human rights department, to department of corrections for correctional institutions, community services and short-term offenders, requiring an electronic treatment alternatives report, challenge incarceration maximum occupancy, institutional efficiencies, per diem reduction and drug court bed savings, prohibiting inmate educational, chemical dependency and reentry programs reductions, exempting department from the state contracting process; appropriating money to sentencing guidelines commission; prohibiting motor vehicle purchase appropriation use and certain out-of-state travel, requiring car fleet reductions

ARTICLE 2 - COURTS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

Removing the time limit requirement for supreme court determination of judicial vacancy filling necessity and referee position vacancy necessity or conversion to judgeship; modifying certain provisions relating to retired justice payment requirements by chief justice of supreme court; modifying motorboat violations fines and bail money deposit requirements; limiting the imposition of county law library fees; modifying certain sentencing provisions relating to the crime of possession of chemical reagents or precursors with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine; imposing felony penalties for conviction of offenses of driving a motorboat, snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, off-highway motorcycle and off-road vehicle while impaired (under the influence of alcohol or controlled substance - DWI), prescribing second, third and fourth degree penalties, allowing permissive consecutive sentences for multiple offenses and providing an affirmative defense and revocation; reducing the chemical dependency assessment charge and allowing courts to waive the charge, modifying certain duties relating to distribution of money; modifying certain state patrol traffic fines and forfeited bail money distribution requirements; modifying certain court fees; limiting criminal and traffic offender surcharges in multiple convictions and requiring court administrator forwarding and payment upon diversion program completion, modifying surcharge disbursement; removing a requirement for county boards to provide district court judges with office supplies and technology; providing for the promulgation of uniform collections policies and procedures for courts; modifying certain procedures for the disposition of fines, fees and other moneys and accounts for the Ramsey county district court; modifying certain district court administrator fees allocation requirements; allowing the fourth judicial district (Hennepin county) to determine court misdemeanor violations bureaus locations; repealing a Hennepin county provision regarding Bloomington court relocation; expanding conciliation court judgment debtor disclosure requirements; authorizing referees to preside in conciliation court in any judicial district; modifying requirements for the destruction of original documents for probate proceedings; modifying the interest rate on a civil judgment or award over a certain amount of money; expanding the judgment debtor disclosure provision; modifying certain sentences available upon conviction of a felony, misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor crime and specifying certain payment requirements for fines or orders for restitution; providing a restorative justice-based alternative disposition process for certain juvenile petty offenders; permitting courts to forward controlled substance offense minimum fine portions to intervention programs, requiring the state court administrator to prescribe fund uses, defining intervention program; specifying procedures for fine and surcharge collection; specifying payment due date and clarifying court authority for collection referral for unpaid fines; increasing public defender court co-payment; modifying costs of prosecution disbursement payment; authorizing state court administrator to assess a public defender fee on all licensed attorneys and creating a public defender fee account; repealing the penalty for possession of substances with intent to manufacture methamphetamine crime, a Hennepin county provision regarding Bloomington court relocation, fees payable to court administrator, judicial officer office abolishment and stay of imposition or execution of sentence fine and surcharge collection

ARTICLE 3 - PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS

Requiring reports submitted by criminal justice agencies to the legislature to be submitted in an electronic version; modifying certain sentencing provisions relating to controlled substance sale crimes in the fifth degree; requiring annual appropriation of money in bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) account to commissioner of public safety; clarifying department of corrections biennial legislative reporting, requiring commissioner performance measures and targets reporting; modifying commissioner marketing plan requirements; requiring MINNCOR to include full costs for inmate wages and money receipts in reports and financial statements; requiring MINNCOR to use revenue contract or purchase orders on approved forms for inmate labor use; prohibiting work by MINNCOR prior to purchase order or contract signing; extending the sunset for conditional release of nonviolent controlled substance offender treatment; requiring the commissioner of corrections to report to the legislature annually on felony driving while impaired (DWI) offenders by a certain date; modifying certain provisions relating to the challenge incarceration program by requiring the commissioner of corrections to select offenders for participation in the program and modifying offender eligibility requirements; providing a 90-day cap on incarceration for certain first-time supervised release violations; removing and modifying department of public safety reporting requirements and adding a performance measures and targets reporting requirement; removing the authorization for certain short term commitments to commissioner of corrections to be served in county jails or workhouses; requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature on the MINNCOR marketing plan; requiring the sentencing guidelines commission to review reports for consolidation or elimination; allowing counties or community corrections departments to develop proposals for pilot projects for secure residential centers and providing pilot projects in Dodge, Fillmore, Ramsey and Hennepin, and Olmsted counties and tri-county community corrections; establishing a corrections strategic management and operations advisory task force to advise governor and legislature; repealing reporting requirements for placement of juveniles offenders at Red Wing facility and mandatory commitment to commissioner of corrections, penalties for scrap metal dealers gross misdemeanors, controlled substance crime in the fifth degree and the terms remaining term of imprisonment and sentence to more than 180 days
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