Relating to the Minnesota sex offender program (MSOP)

ARTICLE 1 - STRICT AND INTENSIVE SUPERVISION AND TREATMENT; COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN SERVICES AND COUNTY DUTIES

Specifying certain duties of the commissioner of human services (DHS) relating to providing strict and intensive supervision and treatment (SIST) for individuals court ordered on provisional discharge; requiring the SIST to meet public safety requirements; requiring counties to determine demand for housing options and provisional discharge and requiring annual evaluation

ARTICLE 2 - CIVIL COMMITMENT MODIFICATIONS

Requiring the judicial appeal panel to consider petitions for relief brought by civilly committed persons; establishing and providing for a sex offender civil commitment screening unit to review cases and conduct evaluations; requiring all commitment cases to be submitted to the screening unit; providing a standard for commitment and evaluation; establishing disposition; clarifying county attorney access to data; making conforming amendments; modifying the statewide judicial panel; requiring a court appointed attorney from the sex offender civil commitment defense panel; establishing the sex offender civil commitment defense office; prohibiting passes for committed persons; requiring biennial reviews; transferring certain responsibilities of the special review board to the judicial appeal panel; appropriating money to the sex offender civil commitment screening unit, the civil commitment defense office, and to the commissioner of human services (DHS); repealing the petition for reduction in custody and the judicial appeal panel

ARTICLE 3 - SENTENCING

Requiring counties to determine the average number of offenders and provide appropriate community housing options in the county; establishing a mandatory lifetime probation for sex offenders; making conforming changes; specifying no right to release upon completion of term of imprisonment for executed sentences; establishing a mandatory statutory maximum sentence for repeat offenders, allowing exceptions and stay of imposition or execution; modifying indeterminate sentences minimum term of imprisonment; establishing a special review panel to consider supervised release petitions and allowing petitions for release and hearing and specifying criteria for release; requiring the commissioner of corrections to ensure a certain level of sex offender treatment; appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for increased sex offender treatment; repealing dangerous sex offenders mandatory ten-year conditional release term
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