1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; making policy and technical changes to various election and 
1.3 	campaign finance related provisions; providing automatic voter registration; 
1.4 	restoring the voting rights of persons with felony convictions; providing early 
1.5 	voting; authorizing automatic absentee ballot delivery; authorizing ranked-choice 
1.6 	voting; adopting the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact; modifying 
1.7 	campaign finance reporting requirements for Hennepin County elections and certain 
1.8 	political subdivisions in Hennepin County; modifying definition of expressly 
1.9 	advocating; requiring reporting of electioneering communications; establishing a 
1.10 	redistricting commission; appropriating money;amending Minnesota Statutes 
1.11 	2018, sections 10A.01, subdivisions 4, 7, 9, 11, 16a, 17c, 18, 20, 26, 27, 28, by 
1.12 	adding a subdivision; 10A.12, subdivisions 1, 2; 10A.121, subdivisions 1, 2; 
1.13 	10A.13, subdivision 1; 10A.17, subdivision 4; 10A.20, subdivisions 3, 6a, by 
1.14 	adding a subdivision; 10A.244; 10A.25, subdivision 3a; 10A.27, subdivision 15; 
1.15 	13.607, by adding a subdivision; 123B.09, subdivision 5b; 174.24, by adding a 
1.16 	subdivision; 201.014, by adding a subdivision; 201.022, subdivision 1; 201.071, 
1.17 	subdivision 1; 201.091, subdivision 4; 201.161; 203B.001; 203B.01, by adding a 
1.18 	subdivision; 203B.03, subdivision 1; 203B.04, subdivision 5; 203B.05, subdivision 
1.19 	1; 203B.06, subdivisions 1, 3; 203B.081, subdivision 1; 203B.085; 203B.121, 
1.20 	subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 5, by adding a subdivision; 204B.28, subdivision 2; 204B.35, 
1.21 	by adding a subdivision; 204B.45, subdivisions 1, 2; 204C.03, by adding a 
1.22 	subdivision; 204C.10; 204C.15, subdivision 1; 204C.24, subdivision 1; 204D.19, 
1.23 	subdivision 2; 204D.195; 204D.22, subdivision 3; 204D.23, subdivision 2; 205.13, 
1.24 	subdivision 2; 206.58, subdivision 1; 206.61, by adding a subdivision; 206.80; 
1.25 	206.82, subdivision 1; 206.83; 206.86, by adding a subdivision; 206.89, 
1.26 	subdivisions 2, 3; 207A.12; 207A.13; 207A.14; 207A.15, subdivision 2; 383B.041; 
1.27 	473.408, by adding a subdivision; 609.165, subdivision 1; proposing coding for 
1.28 	new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 2; 10A; 201; 203B; 204B; 204D; 206; 
1.29 	207A; 208; 243; proposing coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 
1.30 	204E; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2018, sections 10A.15, subdivision 6; 
1.31 	203B.081, subdivision 3; 383B.042; 383B.043; 383B.044; 383B.045; 383B.046; 
1.32 	383B.047; 383B.048; 383B.049; 383B.05; 383B.051; 383B.052; 383B.053; 
1.33 	383B.054; 383B.055; 383B.056; 383B.057.
2.1 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

2.2 	ARTICLE 1
2.3 	ELECTIONS AND VOTING RIGHTS

2.4 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 13.607, is amended by adding a subdivision 
2.5 	to read:
2.6 		Subd. 9.Data derived from driver's license applications. Data on an application for 
2.7 	a driver's license, a Minnesota identification card, or a learner's permit transferred to the 
2.8 	secretary of state that are provided by a person whom the secretary of state determines is 
2.9 	not eligible to vote are governed by section 201.161.

2.10 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 123B.09, subdivision 5b, is amended to read:
2.11 		Subd. 5b.Appointments to fill vacancies; special elections. (a) Any vacancy on the 
2.12 	board, other than a vacancy described in subdivision 4, must be filled by board appointment 
2.13 	at a regular or special meeting. The appointment shall be evidenced by a resolution entered 
2.14 	in the minutes and shall be effective 30 days following adoption of the resolution, subject 
2.15 	to paragraph (b). If the appointment becomes effective, it shall continue until an election is 
2.16 	held under this subdivision. All elections to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired term. 
2.17 	A special election to fill the vacancy must be held no later than the first Tuesday after the 
2.18 	first Monday in November following the vacancy. If the vacancy occurs less than 90 days 
2.19 	prior to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the year in which the vacancy 
2.20 	occurs, the special election must be held no later than the first Tuesday after the first Monday 
2.21 	in November of the following calendar year. If the vacancy occurs less than 90 days prior 
2.22 	to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the third year of the term, no 
2.23 	special election is required. If the vacancy is filled by a special election, the person elected 
2.24 	at that election for the ensuing term shall take office immediately after receiving the 
2.25 	certificate of election, filing the bond, and taking the oath of office the appointee shall serve 
2.26 	for the remainder of the unexpired term.
2.27 	(b) An appointment made under paragraph (a) shall not be effective if a petition to reject 
2.28 	the appointee is filed with the school district clerk. To be valid, a petition to reject an 
2.29 	appointee must be signed by a number of eligible voters residing in the district equal to at 
2.30 	least five percent of the total number of voters voting in the district at the most recent state 
2.31 	general election, and must be filed within 30 days of the board's adoption of the resolution 
2.32 	making the appointment. If a valid petition is filed according to the requirements of this 
3.1 	paragraph, the appointment by the school board is ineffective and the board must name a 
3.2 	new appointee as provided in paragraph (a).

3.3 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2019, and applies to vacancies 
3.4 	created on or after that date.

3.5 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 174.24, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
3.6 	read:
3.7 		Subd. 7a.Transit service on election day. An eligible recipient of operating assistance 
3.8 	under this section who contracts or has contracted to provide fixed route public transit shall 
3.9 	provide fixed route public transit service free of charge on a day a state general election is 
3.10 	held.

3.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2020.

3.12 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 201.014, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
3.13 	read:
3.14 		Subd. 2a.Felony conviction; restoration of civil right to vote. An individual convicted 
3.15 	of a felony has the civil right to vote restored when the individual completes any incarceration 
3.16 	imposed and executed by the court for the offense or upon sentencing if no incarceration is 
3.17 	imposed. If the individual is later incarcerated for the same offense, the individual's civil 
3.18 	right to vote is lost only during the period of incarceration.

3.19 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 201.022, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
3.20 		Subdivision 1.Establishment. The secretary of state shall maintain a statewide voter 
3.21 	registration system to facilitate voter registration and to provide a central database containing 
3.22 	voter registration information from around the state. The system must be accessible to the 
3.23 	county auditor of each county in the state. The system must also:
3.24 	(1) provide for voters to submit their voter registration applications to any county auditor, 
3.25 	the secretary of state, or the Department of Public Safety;
3.26 	(2) provide for the definition, establishment, and maintenance of a central database for 
3.27 	all voter registration information;
3.28 	(3) provide for entering data into the statewide registration system;
3.29 	(4) provide for electronic transfer of completed voter registration applications from the 
3.30 	Department of Public Safety to the secretary of state or the county auditor;
4.1 	(5) assign a unique identifier to each legally registered voter in the state;
4.2 	(6) provide for the acceptance of the Minnesota driver's license number, Minnesota state 
4.3 	identification number, and last four digits of the Social Security number for each voter 
4.4 	record;
4.5 	(7) coordinate with other agency databases within the state;
4.6 	(8) allow county auditors and the secretary of state to add or modify information in the 
4.7 	system to provide for accurate and up-to-date records;
4.8 	(9) allow county auditors, municipal and school district clerks, and the secretary of state 
4.9 	to have electronic access to the statewide registration system for review and search 
4.10 	capabilities;
4.11 	(10) provide security and protection of all information in the statewide registration 
4.12 	system and ensure that unauthorized access is not allowed;
4.13 	(11) provide access to municipal clerks to use the system;
4.14 	(12) provide a system for each county to identify the precinct to which a voter should 
4.15 	be assigned for voting purposes;
4.16 	(13) provide daily reports accessible by county auditors on the driver's license numbers, 
4.17 	state identification numbers, or last four digits of the Social Security numbers submitted on 
4.18 	voter registration applications that have been verified as accurate by the secretary of state; 
4.19 	and
4.20 	(14) provide reports on the number of absentee ballots transmitted to and returned and 
4.21 	cast by voters under section 203B.16.; and
4.22 	(15) provide reports necessary for early voting.
4.23 	The appropriate state or local official shall provide security measures to prevent 
4.24 	unauthorized access to the computerized list established under section 201.021.

4.25 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 201.071, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
4.26 		Subdivision 1.Form. Both paper and electronic voter registration applications must 
4.27 	contain the same information unless otherwise provided by law. A voter registration 
4.28 	application must contain spaces for the following required information: voter's first name, 
4.29 	middle name, and last name; voter's previous name, if any; voter's current address; voter's 
4.30 	previous address, if any; voter's date of birth; voter's municipality and county of residence; 
4.31 	voter's telephone number, if provided by the voter; date of registration; current and valid 
5.1 	Minnesota driver's license number or Minnesota state identification number, or if the voter 
5.2 	has no current and valid Minnesota driver's license or Minnesota state identification, the 
5.3 	last four digits of the voter's Social Security number; and voter's signature. The paper 
5.4 	registration application may include the voter's e-mail address, if provided by the voter. The 
5.5 	electronic voter registration application must include the voter's e-mail address. The 
5.6 	registration application may include the voter's interest in serving as an election judge, if 
5.7 	indicated by the voter. The application must also contain the following certification of voter 
5.8 	eligibility:
5.9 	"I certify that I:
5.10 	(1) will be at least 18 years old on election day;
5.11 	(2) am a citizen of the United States;
5.12 	(3) will have resided in Minnesota for 20 days immediately preceding election day;
5.13 	(4) maintain residence at the address given on the registration form;
5.14 	(5) am not under court-ordered guardianship in which the court order revokes my right 
5.15 	to vote;
5.16 	(6) have not been found by a court to be legally incompetent to vote;
5.17 	(7) have the right to vote because, if I have been convicted of a felony, my felony sentence 
5.18 	has expired (been completed) or I have been discharged from my sentence am not currently 
5.19 	incarcerated for a felony offense; and
5.20 	(8) have read and understand the following statement: that giving false information is a 
5.21 	felony punishable by not more than five years imprisonment or a fine of not more than 
5.22 	$10,000, or both."
5.23 	The certification must include boxes for the voter to respond to the following questions:
5.24 	"(1) Are you a citizen of the United States?" and
5.25 	"(2) Will you be 18 years old on or before election day?"
5.26 	And the instruction:
5.27 	"If you checked 'no' to either of these questions, do not complete this form."
5.28 	The form of the voter registration application and the certification of voter eligibility 
5.29 	must be as provided in this subdivision and approved by the secretary of state. Voter 
5.30 	registration forms authorized by the National Voter Registration Act must also be accepted 
6.1 	as valid. The federal postcard application form must also be accepted as valid if it is not 
6.2 	deficient and the voter is eligible to register in Minnesota.
6.3 	An individual may use a voter registration application to apply to register to vote in 
6.4 	Minnesota or to change information on an existing registration.

6.5 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 201.091, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
6.6 		Subd. 4.Public information lists. The county auditor shall make available for inspection 
6.7 	a public information list which must contain the name, address, year of birth, and voting 
6.8 	history of each registered voter in the county. The list must include the party choice of any 
6.9 	voter who voted in the most recent presidential nomination primary. The telephone number 
6.10 	must be included on the list if provided by the voter. The public information list may also 
6.11 	include information on voting districts. The county auditor may adopt reasonable rules 
6.12 	governing access to the list. No individual inspecting the public information list shall tamper 
6.13 	with or alter it in any manner. No individual who inspects the public information list or who 
6.14 	acquires a list of registered voters prepared from the public information list may use any 
6.15 	information contained in the list for purposes unrelated to elections, political activities, or 
6.16 	law enforcement. The secretary of state may provide copies of the public information lists 
6.17 	and other information from the statewide registration system for uses related to elections, 
6.18 	political activities, or in response to a law enforcement inquiry from a public official 
6.19 	concerning a failure to comply with any criminal statute or any state or local tax statute.
6.20 	Before inspecting the public information list or obtaining a list of voters or other 
6.21 	information from the list, the individual shall provide identification to the public official 
6.22 	having custody of the public information list and shall state in writing that any information 
6.23 	obtained from the list will not be used for purposes unrelated to elections, political activities, 
6.24 	or law enforcement. Requests to examine or obtain information from the public information 
6.25 	lists or the statewide registration system must be made and processed in the manner provided 
6.26 	in the rules of the secretary of state.
6.27 	Upon receipt of a statement signed by the voter that withholding the voter's name from 
6.28 	the public information list is required for the safety of the voter or the voter's family, the 
6.29 	secretary of state and county auditor must withhold from the public information list the 
6.30 	name of a registered voter.

7.1 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 201.161, is amended to read:
7.2 	201.161 AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF DRIVER'S LICENSE, 
7.3 	INSTRUCTION PERMIT, AND IDENTIFICATION CARD APPLICATIONS
7.4 	APPLICANTS.
7.5 		Subdivision 1.Automatic registration. An individual who properly completes an 
7.6 	application for a new or renewed Minnesota driver's license, instruction permit, or 
7.7 	identification card, and who is eligible to vote under section 201.014, must be registered to 
7.8 	vote as provided in this section, unless the applicant declines to be registered.
7.9 		Subd. 2.Applications. The Department commissioner of public safety, in consultation 
7.10 	with the secretary of state, shall change its the applications for an original, duplicate, or 
7.11 	change of address driver's license, instruction permit, or identification card so that the forms 
7.12 	may also serve as voter registration applications. The forms must contain spaces for all 
7.13 	information collected by voter registration applications prescribed by the secretary of state. 
7.14 	Applicants for driver's licenses or identification cards must be asked if they want to register 
7.15 	to vote at the same time and that and a box for the applicant to decline to be registered to 
7.16 	vote. The form must clearly state that it is a felony for a person who is not eligible to vote 
7.17 	to register to vote or cast a ballot. Unless the applicant has declined to be registered to vote 
7.18 	or has provided an address other than the applicant's address of residence under section 
7.19 	171.12, subdivision 7, paragraph (d), the commissioner shall transmit the information must 
7.20 	be transmitted at least weekly daily by electronic means to the secretary of state. Pursuant 
7.21 	to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Public Law 107-252, the computerized driver's 
7.22 	license record containing the voter's name, address, date of birth, citizenship, driver's license 
7.23 	number or state identification number, county, town, and city or town must be made available 
7.24 	for access by the secretary of state and interaction with the statewide voter registration 
7.25 	system.
7.26 		Subd. 3.Registration. (a) The secretary of state shall determine whether the applicant 
7.27 	is currently registered in the statewide voter registration system. For each currently registered 
7.28 	voter whose registration is not changed, the secretary of state shall update the voter's 
7.29 	registration date in the statewide voter registration system. For each currently registered 
7.30 	voter whose registration is changed, the secretary of state shall transmit the registration 
7.31 	daily by electronic means to the county auditor of the county where the voter resides.
7.32 	(b) If the applicant is not currently registered in the statewide voter registration system, 
7.33 	the secretary of state shall determine whether the applicant is 18 years of age or older and 
7.34 	a citizen of the United States and compare the voter registration information received under 
8.1 	section 201.145 to determine whether the applicant is eligible to vote. If an applicant is less 
8.2 	than 18 years of age, the secretary of state shall wait until the applicant has turned 18 years 
8.3 	of age to determine whether the applicant is eligible to vote. For each applicant the secretary 
8.4 	of state determines is an eligible voter, the secretary of state shall transmit the registration 
8.5 	daily by electronic means to the county auditor of the county where the voter resides.
8.6 	(c) Any data on applicants who the secretary determines are not eligible to vote are 
8.7 	private data on individuals, as defined in section 13.02, subdivision 12.
8.8 		Subd. 4.Notice. Upon receipt of the registration, the county auditor shall mail to the 
8.9 	voter the notice of registration required by section 201.121, subdivision 2.
8.10 		Subd. 5.Registering 20 days before election. An application for registration that is 
8.11 	dated during the 20 days before an election in any jurisdiction within which the voter resides 
8.12 	is not effective until the day after the election.
8.13 		Subd. 6.System certification. An applicant for a Minnesota driver's license, instruction 
8.14 	permit, or identification card must not be registered to vote until the commissioner of public 
8.15 	safety has certified that the department's systems have been tested and can accurately provide 
8.16 	the necessary data, and the secretary of state has certified that the system for automatic 
8.17 	registration of those applicants has been tested and is capable of properly determining 
8.18 	whether an applicant is eligible to vote.
8.19 		Subd. 7.Implementation costs. The secretary of state and commissioner of public safety 
8.20 	must absorb any costs associated with implementation of this section using existing 
8.21 	appropriations provided to the secretary or commissioner by law.

8.22 	Sec. 9. [201.276] DUTIES OF SECRETARY OF STATE; INFORMATION ABOUT 
8.23 	VOTING RIGHTS.
8.24 	The secretary of state shall develop accurate and complete information in a single 
8.25 	publication about the voting rights of people who have been charged with or convicted of 
8.26 	a crime. This publication must be made available electronically to the state court administrator 
8.27 	for distribution to judges, court personnel, probation officers, and the commissioner of 
8.28 	corrections for distribution to corrections officials, parole and supervised release agents, 
8.29 	and the public.

9.1 	Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.001, is amended to read:
9.2 	203B.001 ELECTION LAW APPLICABILITY.
9.3 	The Minnesota Election Law is applicable to voting by absentee ballot and early voting
9.4 	unless otherwise provided in this chapter.

9.5 	Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.01, is amended by adding a subdivision 
9.6 	to read:
9.7 		Subd. 5.Early voting. "Early voting" means voting in person before election day at the 
9.8 	office of the county auditor or designated municipal clerk within the time period provided 
9.9 	in section 203B.31.

9.10 	Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.03, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
9.11 		Subdivision 1.Violation. (a) No individual shall intentionally:
9.12 	(1) make or sign any false certificate required by this chapter;
9.13 	(2) make any false or untrue statement in any application for absentee ballots;
9.14 	(3) apply for absentee ballots more than once in any election with the intent to cast an 
9.15 	illegal ballot;
9.16 	(4) exhibit a ballot marked by that individual to any other individual;
9.17 	(5) do any act in violation of the provisions of this chapter for the purpose of casting an 
9.18 	illegal vote in any precinct or for the purpose of aiding another to cast an illegal vote;
9.19 	(6) use information from absentee ballot or early voting materials or records for purposes 
9.20 	unrelated to elections, political activities, or law enforcement;
9.21 	(7) provide assistance to an absentee or early voter except in the manner provided by 
9.22 	section 204C.15, subdivision 1;
9.23 	(8) solicit the vote of an absentee or early voter while in the immediate presence of the 
9.24 	voter during the time the individual knows the absentee or early voter is voting; or
9.25 	(9) alter an absentee ballot application after it has been signed by the voter, except by 
9.26 	an election official for administrative purposes.
9.27 	(b) Before inspecting information from absentee ballot or early voting materials or 
9.28 	records, an individual shall provide identification to the public official having custody of 
9.29 	the material or information.

10.1 	Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.04, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
10.2 		Subd. 5.Permanent absentee voter status. (a) An eligible voter may apply to a county 
10.3 	auditor or municipal clerk to automatically receive an absentee ballot application before 
10.4 	each election, other than an election by mail conducted under section 204B.45, and to have 
10.5 	the status as a permanent absentee voter indicated on the voter's registration record. The 
10.6 	secretary of state must prescribe a form for this purpose. An eligible voter listed as an 
10.7 	ongoing absentee voter as of July 31, 2013, pursuant to laws in effect on that date, shall be 
10.8 	treated as if the voter applied for status as a permanent absentee voter pursuant to this 
10.9 	subdivision.
10.10 	(b) A voter who applies under paragraph (a) must automatically be provided an absentee 
10.11 	ballot application for each eligible election. A voter's permanent absentee status ends and 
10.12 	automatic ballot application delivery must be terminated on:
10.13 	(1) the voter's written request;
10.14 	(2) the voter's death;
10.15 	(3) return of an absentee ballot as undeliverable; or
10.16 	(4) a change in the voter's status to "challenged" or "inactive" in the statewide voter 
10.17 	registration system.
10.18 	(c) The secretary of state shall adopt rules governing procedures under this subdivision.

10.19 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to elections 
10.20 	conducted on or after that date.

10.21 	Sec. 14. [203B.045] VOTERS WITH A DISABILITY.
10.22 		Subdivision 1.Transmitting ballot and certificate of voter eligibility. (a) A voter with 
10.23 	a temporary or permanent disability may include in an application for absentee ballots a 
10.24 	request that the ballots, instructions, and a certificate of voter eligibility meeting the 
10.25 	requirements of section 203B.21, subdivision 3, be transmitted to the voter electronically 
10.26 	in an accessible format, including ballots with the ability to be marked by accessible software 
10.27 	or devices. Upon receipt of a properly completed application requesting accessible electronic 
10.28 	transmission, the county auditor shall electronically transmit the requested materials to the 
10.29 	voter.
10.30 	(b) Electronic materials provided by a county auditor to a voter under this subdivision 
10.31 	must comply with the accessibility standards developed under section 16E.03, subdivision 
10.32 	9.
11.1 	(c) The county auditor or municipal clerk must provide a return envelope containing 
11.2 	first class postage to a voter requesting a ballot and ballot materials under this subdivision.
11.3 		Subd. 2.Marking ballots. The voter may electronically mark the ballot using accessible 
11.4 	software or devices.
11.5 		Subd. 3.Returning voted ballots. The voter must return the voted ballots and the 
11.6 	certificate of voter eligibility to the county auditor in a sealed envelope.

11.7 	Sec. 15. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.05, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
11.8 		Subdivision 1.Generally. The full-time clerk of any city or town shall administer the 
11.9 	provisions of sections 203B.04 to 203B.15 if:
11.10 	(1) the county auditor of that county has designated the clerk to administer them; or
11.11 	(2) the clerk has given the county auditor of that county notice of intention to administer 
11.12 	them.
11.13 	The designation or notice must specify whether the clerk will be responsible for the 
11.14 	administration of a ballot board as provided in section 203B.121.
11.15 	A clerk of a city that is located in more than one county may only administer the 
11.16 	provisions of sections 203B.04 to 203B.15and 203B.30 to 203B.35 if the clerk has been 
11.17 	designated by each of the county auditors or has provided notice to each of the county 
11.18 	auditors that the city will administer absentee voting. A clerk may only administer the 
11.19 	provisions of sections 203B.04 to 203B.15 if the clerk has technical capacity to access the 
11.20 	statewide voter registration system in the secure manner prescribed by the secretary of state. 
11.21 	The secretary of state must identify hardware, software, security, or other technical 
11.22 	prerequisites necessary to ensure the security, access controls, and performance of the 
11.23 	statewide voter registration system. A clerk must receive training approved by the secretary 
11.24 	of state on the use of the statewide voter registration system before administering this section. 
11.25 	A clerk may not use the statewide voter registration system until the clerk has received the 
11.26 	required training. The county auditor must notify the secretary of state of any municipal 
11.27 	clerk who will be administering the provisions of this section and the duties that the clerk 
11.28 	will administer.

11.29 	Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.06, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
11.30 		Subdivision 1.Printing and delivery of forms. Each county auditor and municipal 
11.31 	clerk shall prepare and print a sufficient number of blank application forms for absentee 
11.32 	ballots. The county auditor or municipal clerk shall deliver a blank application form to any 
12.1 	voter who requests one pursuant to section 203B.04. Blank application forms must be mailed 
12.2 	to eligible voters who have requested an application pursuant to section 203B.04, subdivision 
12.3 	5, at least 60 days before:
12.4 	(1) each regularly scheduled primary for federal, state, county, city, or school board 
12.5 	office;
12.6 	(2) each regularly scheduled general election for city or school board office for which 
12.7 	a primary is not held; and
12.8 	(3) a special primary to fill a federal or county office vacancy or special election to fill 
12.9 	a federal or county office vacancy, if a primary is not required to be held pursuant to section 
12.10 	204D.03, subdivision 3, or 204D.07, subdivision 3; and
12.11 	(4) any election held in conjunction with an election described in clauses (1) to (3);
12.12 	or at least 45 days before any other primary or other election for which a primary is not 
12.13 	held.

12.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to elections 
12.15 	conducted on or after that date.

12.16 	Sec. 17. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.06, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
12.17 		Subd. 3.Delivery of ballots. (a) The county auditor or municipal clerk, or full-time 
12.18 	clerk of any city or town administering an election pursuant to section 203B.05, shall mail 
12.19 	absentee ballots to voters on the permanent absentee ballot list pursuant to section 203B.04, 
12.20 	subdivision 5, at least 45 days before:
12.21 	(1) each regularly scheduled primary or general election for federal, state, county, city, 
12.22 	or school board office;
12.23 	(2) each special primary or special election to fill a federal, state, county, city, or school 
12.24 	board vacancy; except
12.25 	(3) town clerks administering absentee ballots for a town general election held in March 
12.26 	shall deliver absentee ballots at least 30 days before the election.
12.27 	(b) The commissioner of corrections must provide the secretary of state with a list of 
12.28 	the names and mailing addresses of state adult correctional facilities. An application for an 
12.29 	absentee ballot that provides an address included on the list provided by the commissioner 
12.30 	of corrections must not be accepted and an absentee ballot must not be provided to the 
12.31 	applicant. The county auditor or municipal clerk must promptly transmit a copy of the 
12.32 	application to the county attorney. The Department of Corrections must implement procedures 
13.1 	to ensure that absentee ballots issued under this chapter are not received or mailed by 
13.2 	offenders incarcerated at state adult correctional facilities.
13.3 	(b) (c) If an application for absentee ballots is accepted at a time when absentee ballots 
13.4 	are not yet available for distribution, the county auditor, or municipal clerk accepting the 
13.5 	application shall file it and as soon as absentee ballots are available for distribution shall 
13.6 	mail them to the address specified in the application. If an application for absentee ballots 
13.7 	is accepted when absentee ballots are available for distribution, the county auditor or 
13.8 	municipal clerk accepting the application shall promptly:
13.9 	(1) mail the ballots to the voter whose signature appears on the application if the 
13.10 	application is submitted by mail and does not request commercial shipping under clause 
13.11 	(2);
13.12 	(2) ship the ballots to the voter using a commercial shipper requested by the voter at the 
13.13 	voter's expense;
13.14 	(3) deliver the absentee ballots directly to the voter if the application is submitted in 
13.15 	person; or
13.16 	(4) deliver the absentee ballots in a sealed transmittal envelope to an agent who has been 
13.17 	designated to bring the ballots, as provided in section 203B.11, subdivision 4, to a voter 
13.18 	who would have difficulty getting to the polls because of incapacitating health reasons, or 
13.19 	who is disabled, or who is a patient in a health care facility, a resident of a facility providing 
13.20 	assisted living services governed by chapter 144G, a participant in a residential program 
13.21 	for adults licensed under section 245A.02, subdivision 14, or a resident of a shelter for 
13.22 	battered women as defined in section 611A.37, subdivision 4.
13.23 	(c) (d) If an application does not indicate the election for which absentee ballots are 
13.24 	sought, the county auditor or municipal clerk shall mail or deliver only the ballots for the 
13.25 	next election occurring after receipt of the application. Only one set of ballots may be mailed, 
13.26 	shipped, or delivered to an applicant for any election, except as provided in section 203B.121, 
13.27 	subdivision 2, or when a replacement ballot has been requested by the voter for a ballot that 
13.28 	has been spoiled or lost in transit.

13.29 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to elections 
13.30 	conducted on or after that date.

13.31 	Sec. 18. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.081, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
13.32 		Subdivision 1.Location; timing. (a) An eligible voter may vote by absentee ballot in 
13.33 	the office of the county auditor and at any other polling place designated by the county 
14.1 	auditor or by a municipal clerk authorized to conduct absentee balloting under section 
14.2 	203B.05 during the 46 days before the election, except as provided in this section.
14.3 	(b) A polling place location, other than the office of the county auditor, may be opened 
14.4 	for fewer than 46 days. If a polling place is open fewer than 46 days before the election, 
14.5 	the county auditor or municipal clerk must post the polling place location and hours of 
14.6 	operation on the jurisdiction's website and must inform the secretary of state of the polling 
14.7 	place's location and hours.

14.8 	Sec. 19. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.085, is amended to read:
14.9 	203B.085 COUNTY AUDITOR'S AND MUNICIPAL CLERK'S OFFICES TO 
14.10 	REMAIN OPEN DURING CERTAIN HOURS PRECEDING ELECTION.
14.11 	The county auditor's office in each county and the clerk's office in each city or town 
14.12 	authorized under section 203B.05 to administer absentee balloting must be open for 
14.13 	acceptance of absentee ballot applications and casting of absentee ballots from 8:00 a.m. 
14.14 	to 12:00 noon on the day immediately preceding an election subject to early voting under 
14.15 	section 203B.30 unless that day falls on a Sunday. When performing the duties of the county 
14.16 	auditor in an election not subject to early voting under section 203B.30, the clerk's office 
14.17 	must be open from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and until 5:00 p.m. on the day 
14.18 	immediately preceding a primary, special, or general election unless that day falls on a 
14.19 	Saturday or Sunday. Town clerks' offices must be open for absentee voting from 10:00 a.m. 
14.20 	to 12:00 noon on the Saturday before a town general election held in March. The school 
14.21 	district clerk, when performing the county auditor's election duties, need not comply with 
14.22 	this section.

14.23 	Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.121, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
14.24 		Subdivision 1.Establishment; applicable laws. (a) The governing body of each county, 
14.25 	municipality, and school district with responsibility to accept and reject absentee ballots or 
14.26 	to administer early voting must, by ordinance or resolution, establish a ballot board. The 
14.27 	board must consist of a sufficient number of election judges trained in the handling of 
14.28 	absentee ballots and appointed as provided in sections 204B.19 to 204B.22. The board may 
14.29 	include deputy county auditors or deputy city clerks who have received training in the 
14.30 	processing and counting of absentee ballots.
14.31 	(b) Each jurisdiction must pay a reasonable compensation to each member of that 
14.32 	jurisdiction's ballot board for services rendered during an election.
15.1 	(c) Except as otherwise provided by this section, all provisions of the Minnesota Election 
15.2 	Law apply to a ballot board.

15.3 	Sec. 21. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.121, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
15.4 		Subd. 2.Duties of ballot board; absentee ballots. (a) The members of the ballot board 
15.5 	shall take possession of all return envelopes delivered to them in accordance with section 
15.6 	203B.08. Upon receipt from the county auditor, municipal clerk, or school district clerk, 
15.7 	two or more members of the ballot board shall examine each return envelope and shall mark 
15.8 	it accepted or rejected in the manner provided in this subdivision. Election judges performing 
15.9 	the duties in this section must be of different major political parties, unless they are exempt 
15.10 	from that requirement under section 205.075, subdivision 4, or section 205A.10, subdivision 
15.11 	2.
15.12 	(b) The members of the ballot board shall mark the return envelope "Accepted" and 
15.13 	initial or sign the return envelope below the word "Accepted" if a majority of the members 
15.14 	of the ballot board examining the envelope are satisfied that:
15.15 	(1) the voter's name and address on the return envelope are the same as the information 
15.16 	provided on the absentee ballot application or voter record;
15.17 	(2) the voter signed the certification on the envelope;
15.18 	(3) the voter's Minnesota driver's license, state identification number, or the last four 
15.19 	digits of the voter's Social Security number are the same as a number on the voter's absentee 
15.20 	ballot application or voter record. If the number does not match, the election judges must 
15.21 	compare the signature provided by the applicant to determine whether the ballots were 
15.22 	returned by the same person to whom they were transmitted;
15.23 	(4) the voter is registered and eligible to vote in the precinct or has included a properly 
15.24 	completed voter registration application in the return envelope;
15.25 	(5) the certificate has been completed as prescribed in the directions for casting an 
15.26 	absentee ballot; and
15.27 	(6) the voter has not already voted at that election, either in person or, if it is after the 
15.28 	close of business on the seventh day before the election, by absentee ballot.
15.29 	The return envelope from accepted ballots must be preserved and returned to the county 
15.30 	auditor.
15.31 	(c)(1) If a majority of the members of the ballot board examining a return envelope find 
15.32 	that an absentee voter has failed to meet one of the requirements provided in paragraph (b), 
16.1 	they shall mark the return envelope "Rejected," initial or sign it below the word "Rejected," 
16.2 	list the reason for the rejection on the envelope, and return it to the county auditor. There 
16.3 	is no other reason for rejecting an absentee ballot beyond those permitted by this section. 
16.4 	Failure to place the ballot within the security envelope before placing it in the outer white 
16.5 	envelope is not a reason to reject an absentee ballot.
16.6 	(2) If an envelope has been rejected at least five days before the election, the envelope 
16.7 	must remain sealed and the official in charge of the ballot board shall provide the voter with 
16.8 	a replacement absentee ballot and return envelope in place of the rejected ballot.
16.9 	(3) If an envelope is rejected within five days of the election, the envelope must remain 
16.10 	sealed and the official in charge of the ballot board must attempt to contact the voter by 
16.11 	telephone or e-mail to notify the voter that the voter's ballot has been rejected. The official 
16.12 	must document the attempts made to contact the voter.
16.13 	(d) The official in charge of the absentee ballot board must mail the voter a written notice 
16.14 	of absentee ballot rejection between six and ten weeks following the election. If the official 
16.15 	determines that the voter has otherwise cast a ballot in the election, no notice is required. 
16.16 	If an absentee ballot arrives after the deadline for submission provided by this chapter, the 
16.17 	notice must be provided between six to ten weeks after receipt of the ballot. A notice of 
16.18 	absentee ballot rejection must contain the following information:
16.19 	(1) the date on which the absentee ballot was rejected or, if the ballot was received after 
16.20 	the required deadline for submission, the date on which the ballot was received;
16.21 	(2) the reason for rejection; and
16.22 	(3) the name of the appropriate election official to whom the voter may direct further 
16.23 	questions, along with appropriate contact information.
16.24 	(e) An absentee ballot return envelope marked "Rejected" may not be opened or subject 
16.25 	to further review except in an election contest filed pursuant to chapter 209.

16.26 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to elections 
16.27 	conducted on or after that date.

16.28 	Sec. 22. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.121, is amended by adding a subdivision 
16.29 	to read:
16.30 		Subd. 2a.Duties of ballot board; early voting. The members of the ballot board shall 
16.31 	administer the process of early voting as prescribed in section 203B.35, and shall make a 
17.1 	record of voters who cast ballots early and count those ballots as provided in subdivisions 
17.2 	4 and 5.

17.3 	Sec. 23. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.121, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
17.4 		Subd. 3.Record of voting. (a) When applicable, the county auditor or municipal clerk 
17.5 	must immediately record that a voter's absentee ballot has been accepted or that the voter 
17.6 	has cast a ballot pursuant to the early voting procedures provided in this chapter. A voter 
17.7 	whose record indicates that the voter has cast an early ballot must not be permitted to cast 
17.8 	another ballot in that election. After the close of business on the seventh day before the 
17.9 	election day prior to the beginning of the early voting period as provided in section 203B.31, 
17.10 	a voter whose record indicates that an absentee ballot has been accepted must not be permitted 
17.11 	to cast another ballot at that election. In a state primary, general, or state special election 
17.12 	for federal or, state, or county office, the auditor or clerk must also record this information 
17.13 	in the statewide voter registration system.
17.14 	(b) The roster must be marked, and a supplemental report of absentee and early voters 
17.15 	who submitted a voter registration application with their ballot must be created, no later 
17.16 	than the start of voting on election day to indicate the voters that have already cast a ballot 
17.17 	at the election. The roster may be marked either:
17.18 	(1) by the county auditor or municipal clerk before election day;
17.19 	(2) by the ballot board before election day; or
17.20 	(3) by the election judges at the polling place on election day.
17.21 	The record of a voter whose absentee ballot was received after the close of business on 
17.22 	the seventh day before the election is not required to be marked on the roster or contained 
17.23 	in a supplemental report as required by this paragraph.

17.24 	Sec. 24. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.121, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
17.25 		Subd. 5.Storage and counting of absentee and early voting ballots. (a) On a day on 
17.26 	which absentee or early voting ballots are inserted into a ballot box, two members of the 
17.27 	ballot board must:
17.28 	(1) remove the ballots from the ballot box at the end of the day;
17.29 	(2) without inspecting the ballots, ensure that the number of ballots removed from the 
17.30 	ballot box is equal to the number of voters who cast early votes and whose absentee ballots 
17.31 	were accepted that day; and
18.1 	(3) seal and secure all voted and unvoted ballots present in that location at the end of 
18.2 	the day.
18.3 	(b) After the polls have closed on election day, two members of the ballot board must 
18.4 	count the ballots, tabulating the vote in a manner that indicates each vote of the voter and 
18.5 	the total votes cast for each candidate or question. In state primary and state general elections, 
18.6 	the results must indicate the total votes cast for each candidate or question in each precinct 
18.7 	and report the vote totals tabulated for each precinct. The count must be recorded on a 
18.8 	summary statement in substantially the same format as provided in section 204C.26. The 
18.9 	ballot board shall submit at least one completed summary statement to the county auditor 
18.10 	or municipal clerk. The county auditor or municipal clerk may require the ballot board to 
18.11 	submit a sufficient number of completed summary statements to comply with the provisions 
18.12 	of section 204C.27, or the county auditor or municipal clerk may certify reports containing 
18.13 	the details of the ballot board summary statement to the recipients of the summary statements 
18.14 	designated in section 204C.27.
18.15 	In state primary and state general elections, these vote totals shall be added to the vote 
18.16 	totals on the summary statements of the returns for the appropriate precinct. In other elections, 
18.17 	these vote totals may be added to the vote totals on the summary statement of returns for 
18.18 	the appropriate precinct or may be reported as a separate total.
18.19 	The count shall be public. No vote totals from ballots may be made public before the 
18.20 	close of voting on election day.
18.21 	(c) In addition to the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b), if the task has not been 
18.22 	completed previously, the members of the ballot board must verify as soon as possible, but 
18.23 	no later than 24 hours after the end of the hours for voting, that voters whose absentee ballots 
18.24 	arrived after the rosters were marked or supplemental reports were generated and whose 
18.25 	ballots were accepted did not vote in person on election day. An absentee ballot submitted 
18.26 	by a voter who has voted in person on election day must be rejected. All other accepted 
18.27 	absentee ballots must be opened, duplicated if necessary, and counted by members of the 
18.28 	ballot board. The vote totals from these ballots must be incorporated into the totals with the 
18.29 	other absentee ballots and handled according to paragraph (b).

18.30 	Sec. 25. [203B.30] EARLY VOTING; APPLICABILITY.
18.31 	(a) Any eligible voter may vote in person in a federal, state, or county election prior to 
18.32 	the date of the election, in the manner provided in sections 203B.31 to 203B.35.
19.1 	(b)(1) Subject to clause (2), for city elections not held in conjunction with a federal, 
19.2 	state, or county election, the city may authorize eligible voters to vote in the manner provided 
19.3 	in sections 203B.31 to 203B.35 upon resolution of the governing body of the city, adopted 
19.4 	prior to the first day for filing affidavits of candidacy for the election. In the case of a home 
19.5 	rule charter city, authorization may alternatively be made by amendment to the city's charter 
19.6 	for this purpose.
19.7 	(2) A city may only authorize voting under sections 203B.31 to 203B.35 if the municipal 
19.8 	clerk has the technical capacity to access the statewide voter registration system in the secure 
19.9 	manner prescribed by the secretary of state. The secretary of state must identify hardware, 
19.10 	software, security, or other technical prerequisites necessary to ensure the security, access 
19.11 	controls, and performance of the statewide voter registration system. The clerk must receive 
19.12 	training approved by the secretary of state on the use of the statewide voter registration 
19.13 	system before administering voting authorized under this paragraph. The clerk may not use 
19.14 	the statewide voter registration system until the clerk has received the required training.

19.15 	Sec. 26. [203B.31] TIME PERIOD FOR EARLY VOTING.
19.16 	Early voting must be available to any eligible voter as provided in section 203B.32 for 
19.17 	every primary, general, and special election subject to early voting under section 203B.30 
19.18 	from 30 days before the election through 5:00 p.m. on the third day before the election. All 
19.19 	voters in line at 5:00 p.m. on the third day before the election must be allowed to vote in 
19.20 	the same manner as provided in section 204C.05, subdivision 2.

19.21 	Sec. 27. [203B.32] HOURS FOR EARLY VOTING.
19.22 	Early voting must be available between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on each 
19.23 	weekday during the time period provided in section 203B.31, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. 
19.24 	on at least one weekday, and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the two Saturdays before the 
19.25 	election.

19.26 	Sec. 28. [203B.33] LOCATIONS FOR EARLY VOTING.
19.27 	(a) Early voting must be made available at polling places designated in the county 
19.28 	auditor's offices in county-owned or operated buildings, at the municipal clerk's office in 
19.29 	every municipality that has been delegated the responsibility to administer absentee voting 
19.30 	as provided in section 203B.05 or which is conducting an election that includes early voting, 
19.31 	as authorized in section 203B.30, and at any other county or city-owned or operated buildings 
20.1 	designated by the county auditor or municipal clerk. At least one voting station and one 
20.2 	ballot marking device for disabled voters must be made available in each polling place.
20.3 	(b) The county auditor or municipal clerk must make an electronic ballot counter available 
20.4 	in each polling place.

20.5 	Sec. 29. [203B.34] NOTICE TO VOTERS.
20.6 	The county auditor or municipal clerk must prepare a notice to the voters of the days, 
20.7 	times, and locations for early voting. This notice must be posted on the county's website, 
20.8 	if applicable, and the website for each municipality in the county where an early voting 
20.9 	location is designated for the election at least 14 days before the first day for early voting. 
20.10 	If a county or municipality does not have a website, the county auditor or municipal clerk 
20.11 	must publish the notice at least once in the jurisdiction's official newspaper at least seven 
20.12 	days and not more than 14 days before the first day for early voting.

20.13 	Sec. 30. [203B.35] PROCEDURES FOR EARLY VOTING.
20.14 		Subdivision 1.Voting procedure. Each voter shall sign the certification provided in 
20.15 	section 204C.10. An individual who is not registered to vote must register in the manner 
20.16 	provided in section 201.061, subdivision 3.
20.17 	After the voter has signed the certification, a member of the ballot board must provide 
20.18 	a ballot to the voter. Ballots must be prepared and distributed by members of the ballot 
20.19 	board in the manner provided in section 204C.09. The voter must mark the ballot and deposit 
20.20 	it in either a precinct voting system or a sealed ballot box. A voter may not leave the polling 
20.21 	place with the ballot.
20.22 		Subd. 2.Processing of ballots. Ballots cast pursuant to sections 203B.30 to 203B.35 
20.23 	must be processed and counted by a ballot board.

20.24 	Sec. 31. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204B.28, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
20.25 		Subd. 2.Election supplies; duties of county auditors and clerks. (a) Except as 
20.26 	otherwise provided for absentee ballots in this section and in section 204B.35, subdivision 
20.27 	4, the county auditor shall complete the preparation of the election materials for which the 
20.28 	auditor is responsible at least four days before every state primary and state general election. 
20.29 	At any time after all election materials are available from the county auditor but not later 
20.30 	than four days before the election each municipal clerk shall secure from the county auditor:
20.31 	(a) (1) the forms that are required for the conduct of the election;
21.1 	(b) (2) any printed voter instruction materials furnished by the secretary of state;
21.2 	(c) (3) any other instructions for election officers; and
21.3 	(d) (4) a sufficient quantity of the official ballots, registration files, envelopes for ballot 
21.4 	returns, and other supplies and materials required for each precinct in order to comply with 
21.5 	the provisions of the Minnesota Election Law. The county auditor may furnish the election 
21.6 	supplies to the municipal clerks in the same manner as the supplies are furnished to precincts 
21.7 	in unorganized territory pursuant to section 204B.29, subdivision 1.
21.8 	(b) The county auditor must prepare and make available election materials for early 
21.9 	voting to city clerks designated to administer early voting under section 203B.05 at least 
21.10 	one day prior to the beginning of the early voting period as provided in section 203B.31.

21.11 	Sec. 32. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204B.35, is amended by adding a subdivision 
21.12 	to read:
21.13 		Subd. 6.Electronic voting systems. Notwithstanding sections 204B.35 to 204B.44 and 
21.14 	chapter 204D, a jurisdiction may employ an electronic voting system provided by section 
21.15 	206.80, paragraph (b), clause (3), displaying the required ballot information on an electronic 
21.16 	device in a format that substantially meets the requirements of law.

21.17 	Sec. 33. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204B.45, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
21.18 		Subdivision 1.Authorization. A town of any size not located in a metropolitan county 
21.19 	as defined by section 473.121, or a city having fewer than 400 registered voters on June 1 
21.20 	of an election year and not located in a metropolitan county as defined by section 473.121,
21.21 	may provide balloting by mail at any municipal, county, or state election with no polling 
21.22 	place other than the office of the auditor or clerk or other locations designated by the auditor 
21.23 	or clerk. The governing body may apply to the county auditor for permission to conduct 
21.24 	balloting by mail. The county board may provide for balloting by mail in unorganized 
21.25 	territory. The governing body of any municipality may designate for mail balloting any 
21.26 	precinct having fewer than 100 registered voters, subject to the approval of the county 
21.27 	auditor.
21.28 	Voted ballots may be returned in person to any location designated by the county auditor 
21.29 	or municipal clerk.

21.30 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to elections 
21.31 	conducted on or after that date.

22.1 	Sec. 34. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204B.45, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
22.2 		Subd. 2.Procedure. Notice of the election and the special mail procedure must be given 
22.3 	at least ten weeks prior to the election. Not more than 46 days nor later than 14 days before 
22.4 	a regularly scheduled election and not more than 30 days nor later than 14 days before any 
22.5 	other election, the auditor shall mail ballots by nonforwardable mail to all voters registered 
22.6 	in the city, town, or unorganized territory. No later than 14 days before the election, the 
22.7 	auditor must make a subsequent mailing of ballots to those voters who register to vote after 
22.8 	the initial mailing but before the 20th day before the election. Eligible voters not registered 
22.9 	at the time the ballots are mailed and eligible voters with a temporary or permanent disability
22.10 	may apply for ballots as provided in chapter 203B. Ballot return envelopes, with return 
22.11 	postage provided, must be preaddressed to the auditor or clerk and the voter may return the 
22.12 	ballot by mail or in person to the office of the auditor or clerk. The auditor or clerk must 
22.13 	appoint a ballot board to examine the mail and absentee ballot return envelopes and mark 
22.14 	them "accepted" or "rejected" within three days of receipt if there are 14 or fewer days 
22.15 	before election day, or within five days of receipt if there are more than 14 days before 
22.16 	election day. The board may consist of deputy county auditors or deputy municipal clerks 
22.17 	who have received training in the processing and counting of mail ballots, who need not be 
22.18 	affiliated with a major political party. Election judges performing the duties in this section 
22.19 	must be of different major political parties, unless they are exempt from that requirement 
22.20 	under section 205.075, subdivision 4, or section 205A.10. If an envelope has been rejected 
22.21 	at least five days before the election, the ballots in the envelope must remain sealed and the 
22.22 	auditor or clerk shall provide the voter with a replacement ballot and return envelope in 
22.23 	place of the spoiled ballot. If the ballot is rejected within five days of the election, the 
22.24 	envelope must remain sealed and the official in charge of the ballot board must attempt to 
22.25 	contact the voter by telephone or e-mail to notify the voter that the voter's ballot has been 
22.26 	rejected. The official must document the attempts made to contact the voter.
22.27 	If the ballot is accepted, the county auditor or municipal clerk must mark the roster to 
22.28 	indicate that the voter has already cast a ballot in that election. After the close of business 
22.29 	on the seventh day before the election, the ballots from return envelopes marked "Accepted" 
22.30 	may be opened, duplicated as needed in the manner provided by section 206.86, subdivision 
22.31 	5, initialed by the members of the ballot board, and deposited in the ballot box.
22.32 	In all other respects, the provisions of the Minnesota Election Law governing deposit 
22.33 	and counting of ballots apply.
23.1 	The mail and absentee ballots for a precinct must be counted together and reported as 
23.2 	one vote total. No vote totals from mail or absentee ballots may be made public before the 
23.3 	close of voting on election day.
23.4 	The costs of the mailing shall be paid by the election jurisdiction in which the voter 
23.5 	resides. Any ballot received by 8:00 p.m. on the day of the election must be counted.

23.6 	Sec. 35. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204C.03, is amended by adding a subdivision 
23.7 	to read:
23.8 		Subd. 5.Transit service. Certain requirements for transit service on the date of a state 
23.9 	general election are as provided in sections 174.24, subdivision 7a, and 473.408, subdivision 
23.10 	11.

23.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2020.

23.12 	Sec. 36. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204C.10, is amended to read:
23.13 	204C.10 POLLING PLACE ROSTER; VOTER SIGNATURE CERTIFICATE; 
23.14 	VOTER RECEIPT.
23.15 	(a) An individual seeking to vote shall sign a polling place roster or voter signature 
23.16 	certificate which states that the individual:
23.17 	(1) is at least 18 years of age,;
23.18 	(2) a citizen of the United States,;
23.19 	(3) has resided in Minnesota for 20 days immediately preceding the election,;
23.20 	(4) maintains residence at the address shown,;
23.21 	(5) is not under a guardianship in which the court order revokes the individual's right to 
23.22 	vote,;
23.23 	(6) has not been found by a court of law to be legally incompetent to vote or;
23.24 	(7) has the right to vote because, if the individual was convicted of a felony, the felony 
23.25 	sentence has expired or been completed or the individual has been discharged from the 
23.26 	sentence, completed the term of incarceration, if any, for the felony offense;
23.27 	(8) is registered; and
23.28 	(9) has not already voted in the election.
24.1 	The roster must also state: "I understand that deliberately providing false information 
24.2 	is a felony punishable by not more than five years imprisonment and a fine of not more than 
24.3 	$10,000, or both."
24.4 	(b) At the presidential nomination primary, the polling place roster must also state: "I 
24.5 	am in general agreement with the principles of the party for whose candidate I intend to 
24.6 	vote, and I understand that my choice of a party's ballot will be public information." This 
24.7 	statement must appear separately from the statements required in paragraph (a). The felony 
24.8 	penalty provided for in paragraph (a) does not apply to this paragraph.
24.9 	(c)(b) A judge may, before the applicant signs the roster or voter signature certificate, 
24.10 	confirm the applicant's name, address, and date of birth.
24.11 	(d)(c) After the applicant signs the roster or voter signature certificate, the judge shall 
24.12 	give the applicant a voter's receipt. The voter shall deliver the voter's receipt to the judge 
24.13 	in charge of ballots as proof of the voter's right to vote, and thereupon the judge shall hand 
24.14 	to the voter the ballot. The voters' receipts must be maintained during the time for notice 
24.15 	of filing an election contest.
24.16 	(e)(d) Whenever a challenged status appears on the polling place roster, an election 
24.17 	judge must ensure that the challenge is concealed or hidden from the view of any voter other 
24.18 	than the voter whose status is challenged.

24.19 	Sec. 37. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204C.15, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
24.20 		Subdivision 1. Physical assistance in marking ballots. A voter who claims a need for 
24.21 	assistance because of inability to read English or physical inability to mark a ballot may 
24.22 	obtain the aid of two election judges who are members of different major political parties. 
24.23 	The election judges shall mark the ballots as directed by the voter and in as secret a manner 
24.24 	as circumstances permit. A voter in need of assistance may alternatively obtain the assistance 
24.25 	of any individual the voter chooses. Only the following persons may not provide assistance 
24.26 	to a voter: the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's employer, an officer or agent of the 
24.27 	voter's union, or a candidate for election. The person who assists the voter shall, 
24.28 	unaccompanied by an election judge, retire with that voter to a booth and mark the ballot 
24.29 	as directed by the voter. No person who assists another voter as provided in the preceding 
24.30 	sentence shall mark the ballots of more than three voters at one election. Before the ballots 
24.31 	are deposited, the voter may show them privately to an election judge to ascertain that they 
24.32 	are marked as the voter directed. An election judge or other individual assisting a voter shall 
24.33 	not in any manner request, persuade, induce, or attempt to persuade or induce the voter to 
24.34 	vote for any particular political party or candidate. The election judges or other individuals 
25.1 	who assist the voter shall not reveal to anyone the name of any candidate for whom the 
25.2 	voter has voted or anything that took place while assisting the voter.

25.3 	Sec. 38. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204C.24, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
25.4 		Subdivision 1.Information requirements. Precinct summary statements shall be 
25.5 	submitted by the election judges in every precinct. For all elections, the election judges 
25.6 	shall complete three or more copies of the summary statements, and each copy shall contain 
25.7 	the following information for each kind of ballot:
25.8 	(1) the number of ballots delivered to the precinct as adjusted by the actual count made 
25.9 	by the election judges, the number of unofficial ballots made, and the number of absentee 
25.10 	ballots delivered to the precinct;
25.11 	(2) the number of votes each candidate received or the number of yes and no votes on 
25.12 	each question, the number of undervotes, the number of overvotes, and the number of 
25.13 	defective ballots with respect to each office or question;
25.14 	(3) the number of spoiled ballots, the number of duplicate ballots made, the number of 
25.15 	absentee ballots rejected, and the number of unused ballots, presuming that the total count 
25.16 	provided on each package of unopened prepackaged ballots is correct;
25.17 	(4) the number of voted ballots indicating only a voter's choices as provided by section 
25.18 	206.80, paragraph (b), clause (3);
25.19 	(4) (5) the number of individuals who voted at the election in the precinct which must 
25.20 	equal the total number of ballots cast in the precinct, as required by sections 204C.20 and 
25.21 	206.86, subdivision 1;
25.22 	(5) (6) the number of voters registering on election day in that precinct; and
25.23 	(6) (7) the signatures of the election judges who counted the ballots certifying that all 
25.24 	of the ballots cast were properly piled, checked, and counted; and that the numbers entered 
25.25 	by the election judges on the summary statements correctly show the number of votes cast 
25.26 	for each candidate and for and against each question.
25.27 	At least two copies of the summary statement must be prepared for elections not held 
25.28 	on the same day as the state elections.

25.29 	Sec. 39. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204D.19, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
25.30 		Subd. 2.Special election when legislature will be in session. Except for vacancies in 
25.31 	the legislature which occur at any time between the last day of session in an odd-numbered 
26.1 	year and the 40th 54th day prior to the opening day of session in the succeeding 
26.2 	even-numbered year, when a vacancy occurs and the legislature will be in session so that 
26.3 	the individual elected as provided by this section could take office and exercise the duties 
26.4 	of the office immediately upon election, the governor shall issue within five days after the 
26.5 	vacancy occurs a writ calling for a special election. The special election shall be held as 
26.6 	soon as possible, consistent with the notice requirements of section 204D.22, subdivision 
26.7 	3, but in no event more than 35 49 days after the issuance of the writ. A special election 
26.8 	must not be held during the four days before or the four days after a holiday as defined in 
26.9 	section 645.44, subdivision 5.

26.10 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2019, and applies to vacancies 
26.11 	occurring on or after that date.

26.12 	Sec. 40. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204D.195, is amended to read:
26.13 	204D.195 DATE OF SPECIAL ELECTION; CERTAIN TIMES PROHIBITED.
26.14 	Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a special primary and special general election 
26.15 	may not be held:
26.16 	(1) for a period beginning the day following the date of the state primary election and 
26.17 	ending the day prior to the date of the state general election.; or
26.18 	(2) on a holiday, or during the four days before or the four days after a holiday, as defined 
26.19 	in section 645.44, subdivision 5.

26.20 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
26.21 	applies to special elections for vacancies in office occurring on or after that date.

26.22 	Sec. 41. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204D.22, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
26.23 		Subd. 3.Notice of special election. The county auditor of a county in which a special 
26.24 	election is to be held shall direct the clerk of each municipality in which the election is to 
26.25 	be held to post a notice of the special primary and special election at least seven 14 days 
26.26 	before the special primary and at least 14 21 days before the special election in the manner 
26.27 	provided in sections 204B.33 and 204B.34. If the special primary is to be held 14 21 days 
26.28 	before the special election, a single notice of both elections may be posted seven days before 
26.29 	the primary.
26.30 	When the special primary or special election is to be held on the same day as any other 
26.31 	election, notice of the special primary or special election may be included in the notice of 
26.32 	the other election, if practicable.

27.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2019, and applies to vacancies 
27.2 	occurring on or after that date.

27.3 	Sec. 42. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 204D.23, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
27.4 		Subd. 2.Time of filing. Except as provided in subdivision 3, the affidavits and petitions 
27.5 	shall be filed no later than 14 21 days before the special primary.

27.6 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2019, and applies to vacancies 
27.7 	occurring on or after that date.

27.8 	Sec. 43. [204D.275] LOCAL REIMBURSEMENT FOR SPECIAL ELECTIONS.
27.9 		Subdivision 1.Reimbursement authorized. Each county and municipality shall be 
27.10 	reimbursed for the cost of conducting a special election as defined in section 200.02, 
27.11 	subdivision 4, for a federal or state office.
27.12 		Subd. 2.Expenses eligible for reimbursement. The secretary of state shall reimburse 
27.13 	each county and municipality for the cost of:
27.14 	(1) preparation and printing of ballots and other election materials for the special election;
27.15 	(2) postage for absentee ballots;
27.16 	(3) publication of the sample ballot;
27.17 	(4) preparation of polling places;
27.18 	(5) preparation of electronic voting systems;
27.19 	(6) compensation paid to the county canvassing board members;
27.20 	(7) election judge salaries; and
27.21 	(8) other reasonable costs of administering the election, as approved by the secretary of 
27.22 	state.
27.23 	Reimbursable costs do not include salaries of permanent local officials or the cost of reusable 
27.24 	supplies and equipment.
27.25 		Subd. 3.Reimbursement requests. (a) Not more than 90 days after the special election, 
27.26 	the county auditor must submit a request for reimbursement of the costs incurred by the 
27.27 	county for conducting the special election and the municipal clerk must submit a request 
27.28 	for reimbursement of the costs incurred by the municipality for conducting the special 
27.29 	election. The request for reimbursement must be submitted to the secretary of state and 
27.30 	must be accompanied by an itemized description of actual county or municipal expenditures 
28.1 	including copies of invoices. In addition, the county auditor or municipal clerk must certify 
28.2 	that the request for reimbursement is based on actual costs incurred by the county or 
28.3 	municipality in the special election. The secretary of state shall provide each county and 
28.4 	municipality with the appropriate forms for requesting payment and certifying expenses 
28.5 	under this subdivision.
28.6 	(b) The secretary of state must not reimburse expenses unless the request for payment 
28.7 	and certification of costs has been submitted as provided in this subdivision. The secretary 
28.8 	of state must complete the issuance of reimbursements to the counties and municipalities 
28.9 	for qualifying claims no later than 120 days after the special election. Amounts necessary 
28.10 	to pay qualifying claims are appropriated from the general fund to the secretary of state for 
28.11 	that purpose.

28.12 	Sec. 44. [204E.01] APPLICABILITY.
28.13 	This chapter applies to all elections expressly authorized by law to use ranked-choice 
28.14 	voting. All other provisions of the Minnesota Election Law also apply, to the extent they 
28.15 	are not inconsistent with this chapter.

28.16 	Sec. 45. [204E.02] DEFINITIONS.
28.17 		Subdivision 1.Scope. The definitions in this section apply to this chapter.
28.18 		Subd. 2.Batch elimination.  "Batch elimination" means a simultaneous defeat of multiple 
28.19 	continuing candidates that have no mathematical chance of being elected.
28.20 		Subd. 3.Chief election official. "Chief election official" means the principal officer in 
28.21 	the jurisdiction charged with duties relating to elections.
28.22 		Subd. 4.Duplicate ranking. "Duplicate ranking" means a voter has ranked the same 
28.23 	candidate at multiple rankings for the office being counted.
28.24 		Subd. 5.Exhausted ballot. "Exhausted ballot" means a ballot that can no longer be 
28.25 	advanced under the procedures in section 204E.06.
28.26 		Subd. 6.Highest continuing ranking. "Highest continuing ranking" means the ranking 
28.27 	on a voter's ballot with the lowest numerical value for a continuing candidate.
28.28 		Subd. 7.Mathematically impossible to be elected. "Mathematically impossible to be 
28.29 	elected" means either:
28.30 	(1) the candidate cannot be elected because the candidate's current vote total plus all 
28.31 	votes that could possibly be transferred to the candidate in future rounds from candidates 
29.1 	with fewer votes or an equal number of votes and surplus votes would not be enough to 
29.2 	surpass the candidate with the next higher current vote total; or
29.3 	(2) the candidate has a lower current vote total than a candidate who is described by 
29.4 	clause (1).
29.5 		Subd. 8.Overvote. "Overvote" means a voter has ranked more than one candidate at 
29.6 	the same ranking.
29.7 		Subd. 9.Partially defective ballot. "Partially defective ballot" means a ballot that is 
29.8 	defective to the extent that the election judges are unable to determine the voter's intent with 
29.9 	respect to the office being counted.
29.10 		Subd. 10.Ranked-choice voting. "Ranked-choice voting" means an election method 
29.11 	in which voters rank candidates for an office in order of their preference, with each vote 
29.12 	counting for the highest-ranked continuing candidate on each ballot until that candidate has 
29.13 	been elected or defeated by the method established in this chapter.
29.14 		Subd. 11.Ranked-choice voting tabulation center. "Ranked-choice voting tabulation 
29.15 	center" means the place selected for the automatic or manual processing and tabulation of 
29.16 	ballots.
29.17 		Subd. 12.Ranking. "Ranking" means the number assigned by a voter to a candidate to 
29.18 	express the voter's preference for that candidate. Ranking number one is the highest ranking. 
29.19 	A ranking of lower numerical value indicates a greater preference for a candidate than a 
29.20 	ranking of higher numerical value.
29.21 		Subd. 13.Round. "Round" means an instance of the sequence of voting tabulation steps 
29.22 	established in section 204E.06.
29.23 		Subd. 14.Skipped ranking. "Skipped ranking" means a voter has left a ranking blank 
29.24 	and ranks a candidate at a subsequent ranking.
29.25 		Subd. 15.Surplus. "Surplus" means the total number of votes cast for an elected 
29.26 	candidate in excess of the threshold.
29.27 		Subd. 16.Surplus fraction of a vote. "Surplus fraction of a vote" means the proportion 
29.28 	of each vote to be transferred when a surplus is transferred.  The surplus fraction is calculated 
29.29 	by dividing the surplus by the total votes cast for the elected candidate, calculated to four 
29.30 	decimal places, ignoring any remainder.
29.31 		Subd. 17.Threshold. "Threshold" means the number of votes sufficient for a candidate 
29.32 	to be elected. In any given election, the threshold equals the total votes counted in the first 
30.1 	round after removing defective ballots, divided by the sum of one plus the number of offices 
30.2 	to be filled and adding one to the quotient, disregarding any fractions.
30.3 		Subd. 18.Transfer value. "Transfer value" means the fraction of a vote that a transferred 
30.4 	ballot will contribute to the next ranked continuing candidate on that ballot. The transfer 
30.5 	value of a vote cast for an elected candidate is calculated by multiplying the  surplus fraction 
30.6 	of each vote by its current value, calculated to four decimal places, ignoring any remainder. 
30.7 	The transfer value of a vote cast for a defeated candidate is the same as its current value.
30.8 		Subd. 19.Transferable vote. "Transferable vote" means a vote or a fraction of a vote 
30.9 	for a candidate who has been either elected or defeated.
30.10 		Subd. 20.Totally defective ballot. "Totally defective ballot" means a ballot that is 
30.11 	defective to the extent that election judges are unable to determine the voter's intent for any 
30.12 	office on the ballot.
30.13 		Subd. 21.Undervote. "Undervote" means a voter did not rank any candidates for an 
30.14 	office.

30.15 	Sec. 46. [204E.03] AUTHORIZATION TO ADOPT RANKED-CHOICE VOTING; 
30.16 	IMPLEMENTATION.
30.17 	(a) The following political subdivisions may adopt, in the manner provided in this section, 
30.18 	ranked-choice voting as a method of voting for local offices within the political subdivision:
30.19 	(1) home rule charter or statutory cities;
30.20 	(2) counties;
30.21 	(3) townships; and
30.22 	(4) school districts.
30.23 	(b) A jurisdiction that adopts ranked-choice voting may do so by adopting an ordinance 
30.24 	or resolution or by a ballot question presented to the voters. The ranked-choice voting 
30.25 	method may be repealed by one of the same methods provided for adoption.
30.26 	(c) A home rule charter jurisdiction that adopts a ranked-choice voting system in its 
30.27 	charter may adopt this chapter by reference in an ordinance, but is not required to do so. 
30.28 	Nothing in this chapter prevents a home rule charter jurisdiction from adopting another 
30.29 	voting method in its charter.
30.30 	(d) Ranked-choice voting shall only be used to elect local offices at a general or special 
30.31 	election, or at a primary election which serves as a party-nominating election for a partisan 
31.1 	office. A primary election must not be held for any nonpartisan offices that are elected using 
31.2 	ranked-choice voting.
31.3 	(e) A jurisdiction that adopts the use of ranked-choice voting in local elections must do 
31.4 	so no later than 30 days before the first day for filing affidavits of candidacy for the office 
31.5 	for which ranked-choice voting is to be used as the method of election.
31.6 	(f) Repeal of ranked-choice voting must be no later than 30 days before the first day for 
31.7 	filing affidavits of candidacy for offices for which ranked-choice voting is used as the 
31.8 	method of election.
31.9 	(g) The chief election official shall notify the secretary of state and, if applicable, the 
31.10 	county auditor within 30 days following adoption or repeal of ranked-choice voting.

31.11 	Sec. 47. [204E.04] BALLOTS.
31.12 		Subdivision 1.Ballot format. (a) If there are three or more qualified candidates, a ballot 
31.13 	must allow a voter to rank at least three candidates for each office in order of preference 
31.14 	and must also allow the voter to add write-in candidates.
31.15 	(b) A ballot must:
31.16 	(1) include instructions to voters that clearly indicate how to mark the ballot;
31.17 	(2) include instructions to voters that clearly indicate how to rank candidates in order 
31.18 	of the voter's preference; and
31.19 	(3) indicate the number of seats to be elected for each office.
31.20 	(c) A jurisdiction may use ballots compatible with alphanumeric character recognition 
31.21 	voting equipment.
31.22 		Subd. 2.Mixed-election method ballots. If elections are held in which ranked-choice 
31.23 	voting is used in addition to other methods of voting, the ranked-choice voting and 
31.24 	non-ranked-choice voting elections must be on the same ballot card if possible, with 
31.25 	ranked-choice voting and non-ranked-choice voting portions clearly separated on the ballot 
31.26 	card. A separate ballot card may be used if necessary. A jurisdiction may deviate from the 
31.27 	standard ballot order of offices to allow separation of ranked-choice voting and 
31.28 	non-ranked-choice voting elections.
31.29 		Subd. 3.Ballot format rules. The chief election official shall establish administrative 
31.30 	rules for ballot format after a voting mechanism has been selected, consistent with this 
31.31 	section.

32.1 	Sec. 48. [204E.05] RANKED-CHOICE VOTING TABULATION CENTER.
32.2 		Subdivision 1.Tabulation of votes; generally. The chief election official shall designate 
32.3 	one location to serve as the ranked-choice voting tabulation center. The center must be 
32.4 	accessible to the public for the purpose of observing the vote tabulation. Tabulation of votes 
32.5 	must be conducted as described in section 204E.06.
32.6 		Subd. 2.Precinct tabulation. When the hours for voting have ended and all voting has 
32.7 	concluded, the election judges in each precinct shall record and publicly declare the number 
32.8 	of first choices cast for each candidate in that precinct. The election judges must then securely 
32.9 	transfer all electronic voting data and ballots from the precinct to the ranked-choice voting 
32.10 	tabulation center designated under this section. Upon receipt at the ranked-choice voting 
32.11 	tabulation center, all electronic voting data and ballots shall be secured.
32.12 		Subd. 3.Notice of recess in count. At any time following receipt of materials under 
32.13 	subdivision 1, the chief election official may declare a recess. Notice of the recess must 
32.14 	include the date, time, and location at which the process of recording and tabulating votes 
32.15 	will resume and the reason for the recess. Notice must be posted on the city's official bulletin 
32.16 	board and on the door of the ranked-choice voting tabulation center.
32.17 		Subd. 4.Recording write-in votes. At a time set by the chief election official, the 
32.18 	election judges shall convene at the ranked-choice voting tabulation center to examine 
32.19 	ballots on which voters have indicated a write-in choice, and record the names and number 
32.20 	of votes received by each write-in candidate. In the event that votes cast for the write-in 
32.21 	category are not eliminated as provided in section 204E.06, the results must be entered into 
32.22 	the ranked-choice voting tabulation software.
32.23 		Subd. 5.Ranked-choice vote tabulation. After all votes have been recorded, and at a 
32.24 	time set by the chief election official, the process of tabulating votes cast for offices to be 
32.25 	elected using the ranked-choice method must begin. The counting must continue until 
32.26 	preliminary results for all races are determined, subject to subdivision 3.

32.27 	Sec. 49. [204E.06] TABULATION OF VOTES.
32.28 	(a) Tabulation of votes at the ranked-choice voting tabulation center must proceed in 
32.29 	rounds for each office to be counted. The threshold must be calculated and publicly declared. 
32.30 	Each round must proceed sequentially as follows:
32.31 	(1) the number of votes cast for each candidate for the current round must be counted. 
32.32 	If the number of candidates whose vote totals equal or exceed the threshold are equal to the 
32.33 	number of seats to be filled, those candidates who are continuing candidates are elected and 
33.1 	the tabulation is complete. If the number of candidates whose vote totals are equal to or 
33.2 	greater than the threshold is not equal to the number of seats to be filled, a new round begins 
33.3 	and the tabulation must continue as provided in the remainder of this paragraph;
33.4 	(2) surplus votes for any candidates whose vote totals are equal to or greater than the 
33.5 	threshold must be calculated;
33.6 	(3) after any surplus votes are calculated but not yet transferred, all candidates for whom 
33.7 	it is mathematically impossible to be elected must be defeated by batch elimination. Votes 
33.8 	for the defeated candidates must be transferred to each ballot's next-ranked continuing 
33.9 	candidate, and the tabulation process reiterates beginning with clause (2). If no candidate 
33.10 	can be defeated mathematically, the tabulation must continue as described in clause (4);
33.11 	(4) the transfer value of each vote cast for an elected candidate must be transferred to 
33.12 	the next continuing candidate on that ballot. Of the candidates whose vote totals reach or 
33.13 	exceed the threshold, the candidate with the largest surplus is declared elected and that 
33.14 	candidate's surplus is transferred. A tie between two or more candidates must immediately 
33.15 	and publicly be resolved by lot by the chief election official at the tabulation center. The 
33.16 	surplus of the candidate chosen by lot must be transferred before other transfers are made. 
33.17 	The result of the tie resolution must be recorded and reused in the event of a recount. If no 
33.18 	candidate has a surplus, the tabulation must continue as described in clause (5); otherwise, 
33.19 	the tabulation process must reiterate beginning with clause (2);
33.20 	(5) if there are no transferable surplus votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is 
33.21 	defeated. Votes for the defeated candidate must be transferred to each ballot's next-ranked 
33.22 	continuing candidate. Ties between candidates with the fewest votes must be decided by 
33.23 	lot, and the candidate chosen by lot must be defeated. The result of the tie resolution must 
33.24 	be recorded and reused in the event of a recount. The tabulation process must reiterate 
33.25 	beginning with clause (2); and
33.26 	(6) the procedures in clauses (2) to (5) must be repeated until the number of candidates 
33.27 	whose vote totals are equal to or exceed the threshold is equal to the number of seats to be 
33.28 	filled, or until the number of continuing candidates is equal to the number of offices yet to 
33.29 	be elected. If the number of continuing candidates is equal to the number of offices yet to 
33.30 	be elected, the remaining continuing candidates must be declared elected. In the case of a 
33.31 	tie between two continuing candidates, the tie must be decided by lot as provided in section 
33.32 	204C.34, and the candidate chosen by lot must be defeated. The result of the tie resolution 
33.33 	must be recorded and reused in the event of a recount.
34.1 	(b) When a single skipped ranking is encountered on a ballot, that ballot must count 
34.2 	toward the next nonskipped ranking. If any ballot cannot be advanced because no further 
34.3 	candidates are ranked on that ballot, because a voter has skipped more than one ranking, or 
34.4 	because an undervote, overvote, or duplicate ranking is encountered, the ballot must not 
34.5 	count toward any candidate in that round or in subsequent rounds for the office being 
34.6 	counted.

34.7 	Sec. 50. [204E.07] REPORTING RESULTS.
34.8 	(a) Each precinct must print a precinct summary statement, which must include the 
34.9 	number of first choices cast for each candidate in that precinct.
34.10 	(b) The ranked-choice voting tabulation center must print a summary statement with the 
34.11 	following information: total votes cast; number of undervotes; number of totally defective 
34.12 	and spoiled ballots; threshold calculation; total first choice rankings for all candidates; 
34.13 	round-by-round tabulation results, including simultaneous batch eliminations, surplus 
34.14 	transfers, and defeated candidate transfers; and exhausted ballots at each round.
34.15 	(c) The election abstract must include the information required in the ranked-choice 
34.16 	voting tabulation center summary statement, with the addition of the number of registered 
34.17 	voters by precinct, the number of same-day voter registrations, and the number of absentee 
34.18 	voters.

34.19 	Sec. 51. [204E.08] RECOUNTS.
34.20 	(a) A candidate defeated in the final round of tabulation may request a recount as provided 
34.21 	in section 204C.36.
34.22 	(b) A candidate defeated in the final round of tabulation when the vote difference is 
34.23 	greater than that provided in section 204C.36 may request a recount at the candidate's own 
34.24 	expense. A candidate defeated in an earlier round of tabulation may request a recount at the 
34.25 	candidate's own expense. The candidate is responsible for all expenses associated with the 
34.26 	recount, regardless of the vote difference between the candidates in the round in which the 
34.27 	requesting candidate was defeated. The requesting candidate shall file with the filing officer 
34.28 	a bond, cash, or surety in an amount set by the filing officer for the payment of the recount 
34.29 	expenses. Expenses must be determined as provided in section 204C.36, subdivision 4.
34.30 	(c) Rules adopted by the secretary of state under section 204C.36 for recounts apply to 
34.31 	recounts conducted under this section.

35.1 	Sec. 52. [204E.09] RULES.
35.2 	The secretary of state may adopt rules necessary to implement the requirements and 
35.3 	procedures established by this chapter.

35.4 	Sec. 53. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 205.13, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
35.5 		Subd. 2.Notice of filing dates. At least two weeks before the first day to file affidavits 
35.6 	of candidacy, the municipal clerk shall publish a notice stating the first and last dates on 
35.7 	which affidavits of candidacy may be filed in the clerk's office and the closing time for 
35.8 	filing on the last day for filing. The clerk shall post a similar notice at least ten days before 
35.9 	the first day to file affidavits of candidacy. The notice must indicate the method of election 
35.10 	to be used for the offices on the ballot. The notice must separately list any office for which 
35.11 	affidavits of candidacy may be filed to fill the unexpired portion of a term when a special 
35.12 	election is being held to fill a vacancy as provided in section 412.02, subdivision 2a.

35.13 	Sec. 54. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.58, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
35.14 		Subdivision 1.Municipalities. (a) The governing body of a municipality, at a regular 
35.15 	meeting or at a special meeting called for the purpose, may provide for the use of an 
35.16 	electronic voting system in one or more precincts and at all elections in the precincts, subject 
35.17 	to approval by the county auditor. The governing body shall disseminate information to the 
35.18 	public about the use of a new voting system at least 60 days prior to the election and shall 
35.19 	provide for instruction of voters with a demonstration voting system in a public place for 
35.20 	the six weeks immediately prior to the first election at which the new voting system will be 
35.21 	used.
35.22 	(b) No system may be adopted or used unless it has been approved by the secretary of 
35.23 	state pursuant to section 206.57.
35.24 	(c) The governing body of a municipality may provide for the use of an electronic voting 
35.25 	system that has been approved by the secretary of state under section 206.57 but includes 
35.26 	an automatic tabulating equipment reallocation feature that has not been approved by the 
35.27 	secretary of state if the municipal clerk certifies to the secretary of state, within 30 days 
35.28 	from the date of adoption under paragraph (a), that the reallocation feature:
35.29 	(1) has been certified as required under section 206.57, subdivision 6; and
35.30 	(2) meets the municipality's ordinance requirements for electronic voting systems.

36.1 	Sec. 55. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.61, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
36.2 	read:
36.3 		Subd. 1a.Availability of alternate ballot formats. In precincts using a ballot format 
36.4 	authorized by section 206.80, paragraph (b), clause (3), voters must be provided the option 
36.5 	of voting a regularly printed optical scan ballot.

36.6 	Sec. 56. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.80, is amended to read:
36.7 	206.80 ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS.
36.8 	(a) An electronic voting system may not be employed unless it:
36.9 	(1) permits every voter to vote in secret;
36.10 	(2) permits every voter to vote for all candidates and questions for whom or upon which 
36.11 	the voter is legally entitled to vote;
36.12 	(3) provides for write-in voting when authorized;
36.13 	(4) automatically rejects, except as provided in section 206.84 with respect to write-in 
36.14 	votes, all votes for an office or question when the number of votes cast on it exceeds the 
36.15 	number which the voter is entitled to cast;
36.16 	(5) permits a voter at a primary election to select secretly the party for which the voter 
36.17 	wishes to vote;
36.18 	(6) automatically rejects all votes cast in a primary election by a voter when the voter 
36.19 	votes for candidates of more than one party; and
36.20 	(7) provides every voter an opportunity to verify votes recorded on the permanent paper 
36.21 	ballot, either visually or using assistive voting technology, and to change votes or correct 
36.22 	any error before the voter's ballot is cast and counted, produces an individual, discrete, 
36.23 	permanent, paper ballot cast by the voter, and preserves the paper ballot as an official record 
36.24 	available for use in any recount.
36.25 	(b) An electronic voting system purchased on or after June 4, 2005, may not be employed 
36.26 	unless it:
36.27 	(1) accepts and tabulates, in the polling place or at a counting center, a marked optical 
36.28 	scan ballot; or
36.29 	(2) creates a marked optical scan ballot that can be tabulated in the polling place or at a 
36.30 	counting center by automatic tabulating equipment certified for use in this state. ;or
37.1 	(3) creates a marked paper ballot indicating, at a minimum, the date of the election, the 
37.2 	name of the precinct, an electronically readable precinct identifier or ballot style indicator, 
37.3 	and the voter's votes for each office or question, generated from the voter's use of a touch 
37.4 	screen or other electronic device on which a complete ballot meeting the information 
37.5 	requirements of any applicable law was displayed electronically.
37.6 	(c) Jurisdictions using multiple ballot formats must not record the ballot formats of 
37.7 	electronic voting system used by a particular voter.

37.8 	Sec. 57. [206.802] ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS; PURCHASING.
37.9 	Any new voting equipment purchased for use in Minnesota for the purpose of replacing 
37.10 	a voting system must have the ability to:
37.11 	(1) capture and store ballot data;
37.12 	(2) keep data anonymous;
37.13 	(3) accept ranked or cumulative voting data under a variety of tabulation rules;
37.14 	(4) be programmable to follow all other specifications of the ranked-choice voting system 
37.15 	as provided in chapter 204E;
37.16 	(5) provide a minimum of three rankings for ranked-choice voting elections;
37.17 	(6) notify voters of the following errors: overvotes, skipped rankings, and duplicate 
37.18 	rankings in a ranked-choice voting election; and
37.19 	(7) be programmable to print a zero tape indicating all rankings for all candidates in a 
37.20 	ranked-choice voting election.

37.21 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective upon certification by the secretary of 
37.22 	state that equipment meeting the standards required by this section is available for purchase 
37.23 	and implementation.

37.24 	Sec. 58. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.82, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
37.25 		Subdivision 1.Program. A program or programs for use in an election conducted by 
37.26 	means of an electronic voting system or using an electronic ballot marker shall be prepared 
37.27 	at the direction of the county auditor or municipal clerk who is responsible for the conduct 
37.28 	of the election and shall be independently verified by a competent person designated by 
37.29 	that official. The term "competent person" as used in this section means a person who can 
37.30 	demonstrate knowledge as a computer programmer and who is other than and wholly 
37.31 	independent of any person operating or employed by the counting center or the corporation 
38.1 	or other preparer of the program. A test deck prepared by a competent person shall be used 
38.2 	for independent verification of the program; it shall test the maximum digits used in totaling 
38.3 	the returns and shall be usable by insertion during the tabulation process as well as prior to 
38.4 	tabulation. A test deck must also be prepared using the electronic ballot marker program 
38.5 	and must also be used to verify that all valid votes counted by the vote tabulator may be 
38.6 	selected using the electronic ballot marker. The computer program for any election and an 
38.7 	exact duplicate of the program for use as backup must be completed and delivered to the 
38.8 	election jurisdiction or the county auditor in charge of a common central counting center 
38.9 	at least 40 days prior to the election. The secretary of state shall adopt rules further specifying 
38.10 	test procedures.

38.11 	Sec. 59. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.83, is amended to read:
38.12 	206.83 TESTING OF VOTING SYSTEMS.
38.13 	(a) Within 14 37 days before election day, the official in charge of elections shall have 
38.14 	the voting system tested to ascertain that the system will correctly mark ballots using all 
38.15 	methods supported by the system, including ranked-choice voting if applicable, and through 
38.16 	assistive technology, and count the votes cast for all candidates and on all questions. Public 
38.17 	notice of the time and place of the test must be given at least two days in advance by 
38.18 	publication once in official newspapers. The test must be observed by at least two election 
38.19 	judges, who are not of the same major political party, and must be open to representatives 
38.20 	of the political parties, candidates, the press, and the public. The test must be conducted by 
38.21 	(1) processing a preaudited group of ballots punched or marked to record a predetermined 
38.22 	number of valid votes for each candidate and on each question, and must include for each 
38.23 	office one or more ballot cards which have votes in excess of the number allowed by law 
38.24 	in order to test the ability of the voting system tabulator and electronic ballot marker to 
38.25 	reject those votes; and (2) processing an additional test deck of ballots marked using the 
38.26 	electronic ballot marker for the precinct, including ballots marked using the electronic ballot 
38.27 	display, audio ballot reader, and any assistive voting technology used with the electronic 
38.28 	ballot marker. If an election is to be conducted using ranked-choice voting, the equipment 
38.29 	must also be tested to ensure that each ranking for each candidate is recorded properly.
38.30 	(b) If any error is detected, the cause must be ascertained and corrected and an errorless 
38.31 	count must be made before the voting system may be used in the election.
38.32 	(c) After the completion of the test, the programs used and ballot cards must be sealed, 
38.33 	retained, and disposed of as provided for paper ballots.

39.1 	Sec. 60. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.86, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
39.2 	read:
39.3 		Subd. 5a.Ballots in precincts with multiple styles of voting system. (a) This subdivision 
39.4 	applies only to precincts using a ballot format as provided by section 206.80, paragraph (b), 
39.5 	clause (3), that was used by ten or fewer voters.
39.6 	(b) In the event the results of a precinct are subject to a recount under section 204C.35 
39.7 	or 204C.36, or are subject to postelection review under section 206.89, the election judges 
39.8 	from that precinct are not eligible to participate in conducting a recount or postelection 
39.9 	review in that precinct.

39.10 	Sec. 61. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.89, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
39.11 		Subd. 2.Selection for review; notice.  At the canvass of the state primary, the county 
39.12 	canvassing board in each county must set the date, time, and place for the postelection 
39.13 	review of the state general election to be held under this section. In jurisdictions where 
39.14 	ranked-choice voting is used, the date, time, and place for postelection review must be set 
39.15 	by the county auditor at least 30 days before the election. The postelection review must not 
39.16 	begin before the 11th day after the state general election and must be complete no later than 
39.17 	the 18th day after the state general election.
39.18 	At the canvass of the state general election, the county canvassing boards must select 
39.19 	the precincts to be reviewed by lot. The ballots to be reviewed for a precinct include both 
39.20 	the ballots counted at the polling place for that precinct and the absentee ballots counted 
39.21 	centrally by a ballot board for that precinct. The county canvassing board of a county with 
39.22 	fewer than 50,000 registered voters must conduct a postelection review of a total of at least 
39.23 	two precincts. The county canvassing board of a county with between 50,000 and 100,000 
39.24 	registered voters must conduct a review of a total of at least three precincts. The county 
39.25 	canvassing board of a county with over 100,000 registered voters must conduct a review 
39.26 	of a total of at least four precincts, or three percent of the total number of precincts in the 
39.27 	county, whichever is greater. At least one precinct selected in each county must have had 
39.28 	more than 150 votes cast at the general election.
39.29 	The county auditor must notify the secretary of state of the precincts that have been 
39.30 	chosen for review and the time and place the postelection review for that county will be 
39.31 	conducted, as soon as the decisions are made. If the selection of precincts has not resulted 
39.32 	in the selection of at least four precincts in each congressional district, the secretary of state 
39.33 	may require counties to select by lot additional precincts to meet the congressional district 
39.34 	requirement. The secretary of state must post this information on the office website.

40.1 	Sec. 62. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 206.89, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
40.2 		Subd. 3.Scope and conduct of review.  The county canvassing board shall appoint the 
40.3 	postelection review official as defined in subdivision 1. The postelection review must be 
40.4 	conducted of the votes cast for president or governor; United States senator; and United 
40.5 	States representative. In jurisdictions where ranked-choice voting is used, the review must 
40.6 	also include at least one single-seat ranked-choice voting election and at least one 
40.7 	multiple-seat ranked-choice voting election, if such an election occurred. A postelection 
40.8 	review of a ranked-choice voting election must be conducted for elections decided most 
40.9 	closely in the final round, by percentage. The postelection review official may conduct 
40.10 	postelection review of the votes cast for additional offices.
40.11 	The postelection review must be conducted in public at the location where the voted 
40.12 	ballots have been securely stored after the state general election or at another location chosen 
40.13 	by the county canvassing board. The postelection review official for each precinct selected 
40.14 	must conduct the postelection review and may be assisted by election judges designated by 
40.15 	the postelection review official for this purpose. The party balance requirement of section 
40.16 	204B.19 applies to election judges designated for the review. The postelection review must 
40.17 	consist of a manual count of the ballots used in the precincts selected and must be performed 
40.18 	in the manner provided by section 204C.21. The postelection review must be conducted in 
40.19 	the manner provided for recounts under section 204C.361 to the extent practicable, and 
40.20 	where ranked-choice voting is used, must include testing of the accumulation software using 
40.21 	stored electronic data for those precincts that are not reviewed by manual count. The review 
40.22 	must be completed no later than two days before the meeting of the state canvassing board 
40.23 	to certify the results of the state general election.

40.24 	Sec. 63. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 207A.12, is amended to read:
40.25 	207A.12 CONDUCTING PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION PRIMARY.
40.26 	(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the presidential nomination primary must be 
40.27 	conducted, and the results canvassed and returned, in the manner provided by law for the 
40.28 	state primary.
40.29 	(b) An individual seeking to vote at the presidential nomination primary must be 
40.30 	registered to vote pursuant to section 201.054, subdivision 1. The voter must request the 
40.31 	ballot of the party for whose candidate the individual wishes to vote. Notwithstanding section 
40.32 	204C.18, subdivision 1, the election judge must record in the polling place roster the name 
40.33 	of the political party whose ballot the voter requested. When posting voter history pursuant 
40.34 	to section 201.171, the county auditor must include the name of the political party whose 
41.1 	ballot the voter requested. The voter instruction posters, pamphlets, and other informational 
41.2 	materials prepared for a presidential primary by the secretary of state pursuant to section 
41.3 	204B.27 must include information about the requirements of this paragraph, including a 
41.4 	notice that the voter's choice of a political party's ballot will be recorded and is public 
41.5 	information.
41.6 	(c) Immediately after the state canvassing board declares the results of the presidential 
41.7 	nomination primary, the secretary of state must notify the chair of each party of the results.
41.8 	(d) The results of the presidential nomination primary must bind the election of delegates 
41.9 	in each party.
41.10 	(b) An individual seeking to vote at the presidential nomination primary must be 
41.11 	registered to vote pursuant to section 201.054, subdivision 1. The voter must declare the 
41.12 	party for whose candidate the voter wishes to vote. Notwithstanding section 204C.18, 
41.13 	subdivision 1, the election judge must record in the polling place roster the name of the 
41.14 	political party the voter declared. When posting voter history under section 201.171, the 
41.15 	county auditor must include the name of the political party the voter declared. The voter 
41.16 	instruction posters, pamphlets, and other informational materials prepared for a presidential 
41.17 	nomination primary by the secretary of state under section 204B.27, must include information 
41.18 	about the requirements of this paragraph, including a notice that the voter's choice of a 
41.19 	political party will be recorded.

41.20 	Sec. 64. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 207A.13, is amended to read:
41.21 	207A.13 FORM OF BALLOTS AND ENVELOPES; CANDIDATES ON BALLOT.
41.22 		Subdivision 1.Form of ballots. (a) Except as provided by law, presidential nomination 
41.23 	primary ballots shall be printed in the same manner as state primary ballots as far as 
41.24 	practicable. A sufficient number of each ballotballots shall be printed for each precinct and 
41.25 	ward in the state.
41.26 	(b) There must be separate ballots for the names of the candidates of each political party. 
41.27 	Each ballot must bea single ballot for the presidential nomination primary. The ballot shall 
41.28 	be headed by the words "Presidential Nomination Primary Ballot." The heading must also 
41.29 	indicate the party that appears on the ballot The presidential nomination primary is exempt 
41.30 	from the base rotation requirements of Minnesota Rules, part 8220.0825.
41.31 	(c) If requested by a party chair, the column on the ballot for that party must contain a 
41.32 	place for a voter to indicate a preference for having delegates to the party's national 
41.33 	convention remain uncommitted. If requested by a party chair, the column on the ballot for 
42.1 	that party must contain a blank line printed below the other choices on the ballot so that a 
42.2 	voter may write in the name of a person who is not listed on the ballot. A request under this 
42.3 	paragraph must be submitted to the secretary of state no later than 63 days before the 
42.4 	presidential nomination primary.
42.5 		Subd. 1a.Form of envelope. The signature envelope must include:
42.6 	(1) a place for the voter to select which party the voter will vote for; and
42.7 	(2) the following statement: "I am in general agreement with the principles of the party 
42.8 	for whose candidate I intend to vote."
42.9 		Subd. 2.Candidates on the ballot. (a) Each party must determine which candidates are 
42.10 	to be placed on the presidential nomination primary ballot for that party. The chair of each 
42.11 	party must submit to the secretary of state the names of the candidates to appear on the 
42.12 	ballot for that party no later than 63 days before the presidential nomination primary. Once 
42.13 	submitted, changes must not be made to the candidates that will appear on the ballot.
42.14 	(b) No later than the seventh day before the presidential nomination primary, the chair 
42.15 	of each party must submit to the secretary of state the names of write-in candidates, if any, 
42.16 	to be counted for that party.

42.17 	Sec. 65. [207A.131] BALLOT BOARD; PARTY LISTS; PRIMARY RESULTS.
42.18 		Subdivision 1.Ballot board. (a) The county auditor must appoint a ballot board to 
42.19 	examine the signature envelopes and mark them "accepted" or "rejected" as provided in 
42.20 	section 203B.121. For each signature envelope examined, the county auditor, or designee 
42.21 	on the ballot board, must record in the polling place roster the name of the political party 
42.22 	selected by the voter. If a voter did not select a party or selected more than one party, the 
42.23 	ballot board must reject the ballot. The selection of a political party must not be included 
42.24 	in the public information list.
42.25 	(b) After opening a signature envelope, the secrecy envelope must be removed and 
42.26 	placed into the pile corresponding to the party selected by the voter on the signature envelope. 
42.27 	When the secrecy envelopes are opened, a ballot must be spoiled if:
42.28 	(1) there are votes for more than one party; or
42.29 	(2) the party voted for does not correspond to the party in which pile the ballot was 
42.30 	placed.
42.31 		Subd. 2.Party list. The secretary of state must maintain a list of each voter who voted 
42.32 	in the presidential nomination primary and the party selected by that voter. Information 
43.1 	maintained on the list is private data on individuals as defined under section 13.02, 
43.2 	subdivision 12, except that the secretary of state must provide to the chair of each major 
43.3 	political party a list of voters who selected that party for the most recent presidential 
43.4 	nomination primary.
43.5 		Subd. 3.Results. Immediately after the state canvassing board declares the results of 
43.6 	the presidential nomination primary, the secretary of state must notify the chair of each 
43.7 	party of the results. The results of the presidential nomination primary must bind the election 
43.8 	of delegates in each party.

43.9 	Sec. 66. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 207A.14, is amended to read:
43.10 	207A.14 NOTICE OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION PRIMARY; SAMPLE 
43.11 	BALLOTS.
43.12 		Subdivision 1.Notice of primary to counties and municipalities. Twenty weeks before 
43.13 	a presidential nomination primary is to be held, the secretary of state shall provide notice 
43.14 	to the county auditor of each county of the date of the presidential nomination primary. 
43.15 	Within ten days after notification by the secretary of state, each county auditor shall provide 
43.16 	notice of the date of the presidential nomination primary to each municipal clerk in the 
43.17 	county.
43.18 		Subd. 2.Sample ballots. No later than 70 days before the presidential nomination 
43.19 	primary, the secretary of state must supply each county auditor with a sample ballotsballot 
43.20 	to be used at the presidential nomination primary. The sample ballotsballot must illustrate 
43.21 	the format required for the ballots used in the presidential nomination primary.
43.22 		Subd. 3.Notice of primary to public. At least 15 days before the date of the presidential 
43.23 	nomination primary, each municipal clerk shall post a public notice stating the date of the 
43.24 	presidential nomination primary, the location of each polling place in the municipality, the 
43.25 	hours during which the polling places in the municipality will be open, and information 
43.26 	about the requirements of section 207A.12, paragraph (b), including a notice that the voter's 
43.27 	choice of a political party's ballot will be recorded and is public information. The county 
43.28 	auditor shall post a similar notice in the auditor's office with information for any polling 
43.29 	places in unorganized territory in the county. The governing body of a municipality or 
43.30 	county may publish the notice in addition to posting it. Failure to give notice does not 
43.31 	invalidate the election.

44.1 	Sec. 67. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 207A.15, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
44.2 		Subd. 2.Reimbursable local expenses. (a) The secretary of state shall reimburse the 
44.3 	counties and municipalities for expenses incurred in the administration of the presidential 
44.4 	nomination primary from money contained in the presidential nomination primary elections 
44.5 	account. The following expenses are eligible for reimbursement: preparation and printing 
44.6 	of ballots; postage for absenteemailing and returning ballots; publication of the sample 
44.7 	ballot; preparation of polling places in an amount not to exceed $150 per polling place; 
44.8 	preparation of electronic voting systems in an amount not to exceed $100 per precinct;
44.9 	compensation for temporary staff or overtime payments; salaries of election judges; and
44.10 	compensation of county canvassing board members; and other expenses as approved by the 
44.11 	secretary of state. The secretary's procedures for approving other expenses are exempt from 
44.12 	chapter 14, and section 14.386 does not apply.
44.13 	(b) Within 60 days after the results of a presidential nomination primary are certified 
44.14 	by the State Canvassing Board, the county auditor must submit a request for payment of 
44.15 	the costs incurred by the county for conducting the presidential nomination primary, and 
44.16 	the municipal clerk must submit a request for payment of the costs incurred by the 
44.17 	municipality for conducting the presidential nomination primary. The request for payment 
44.18 	must be submitted to the secretary of state, and must be accompanied by an itemized 
44.19 	description of actual county or municipal expenditures, including copies of invoices. In 
44.20 	addition, the county auditor or municipal clerk must certify that the request for reimbursement 
44.21 	is based on actual costs incurred by the county or municipality in the presidential nomination 
44.22 	primary.
44.23 	(c) The secretary of state shall provide each county and municipality with the appropriate 
44.24 	forms for requesting payment and certifying expenses under this subdivision. The secretary 
44.25 	of state must not reimburse expenses unless the request for payment and certification of 
44.26 	costs has been submitted as provided in this subdivision. The secretary of state must complete 
44.27 	the issuance of reimbursements to the counties and municipalities no later than 90 days after 
44.28 	the results of the presidential nomination primary have been certified by the State Canvassing 
44.29 	Board.

44.30 	Sec. 68. [208.051] AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE 
44.31 	PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE.
44.32 	The Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote is 
44.33 	enacted into law and entered into with all other states legally joining in it in substantially 
44.34 	the following form:
45.1 	Article I - Membership
45.2 	Any state of the United States and the District of Columbia may become a member of 
45.3 	this agreement by enacting this agreement.
45.4 	Article II - Right of the People in Member States to 
45.5 	Vote for President and Vice President
45.6 	Each member state shall conduct a statewide popular election for president and vice 
45.7 	president of the United States.
45.8 	Article III - Manner of Appointing Presidential Electors in Member States
45.9 	Prior to the time set by law for the meeting and voting by the presidential electors, the 
45.10 	chief election official of each member state shall determine the number of votes for each 
45.11 	presidential slate in each state of the United States and in the District of Columbia in which 
45.12 	votes have been cast in a statewide popular election and shall add such votes together to 
45.13 	produce a "national popular vote total" for each presidential slate.  The chief election official 
45.14 	of each member state shall designate the presidential slate with the largest national popular 
45.15 	vote total as the "national popular vote winner." The presidential elector certifying official 
45.16 	of each member state shall certify the appointment in that official's own state of the elector 
45.17 	slate nominated in that state in association with the national popular vote winner.  At least 
45.18 	six days before the day fixed by law for the meeting and voting by the presidential electors, 
45.19 	each member state shall make a final determination of the number of popular votes cast in 
45.20 	the state for each presidential slate and shall communicate an official statement of such 
45.21 	determination within 24 hours to the chief election official of each other member state.  The 
45.22 	chief election official of each member state shall treat as conclusive an official statement 
45.23 	containing the number of popular votes in a state for each presidential slate made by the 
45.24 	day established by federal law for making a state's final determination conclusive as to the 
45.25 	counting of electoral votes by Congress.  In event of a tie for the national popular vote 
45.26 	winner, the presidential elector certifying official of each member state shall certify the 
45.27 	appointment of the elector slate nominated in association with the presidential slate receiving 
45.28 	the largest number of popular votes within that official's own state.  If, for any reason, the 
45.29 	number of presidential electors nominated in a member state in association with the national 
45.30 	popular vote winner is less than or greater than that state's number of electoral votes, the 
45.31 	presidential candidate on the presidential slate that has been designated as the national 
45.32 	popular vote winner shall have the power to nominate the presidential electors for that state 
45.33 	and that state's presidential elector certifying official shall certify the appointment of such 
46.1 	nominees.  The chief election official of each member state shall immediately release to the 
46.2 	public all vote counts or statements of votes as they are determined or obtained. This article 
46.3 	shall govern the appointment of presidential electors in each member state in any year in 
46.4 	which this agreement is, on July 20, in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority 
46.5 	of the electoral votes.
46.6 	Article IV - Other Provisions
46.7 	This agreement shall take effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the 
46.8 	electoral votes have enacted this agreement in substantially the same form and the enactments 
46.9 	by such states have taken effect in each state.  Any member state may withdraw from this 
46.10 	agreement, except that a withdrawal occurring six months or less before the end of a 
46.11 	president's term shall not become effective until a president or vice president shall have 
46.12 	been qualified to serve the next term. The chief executive of each member state shall promptly 
46.13 	notify the chief executive of all other states of when this agreement has been enacted and 
46.14 	has taken effect in that official's state, when the state has withdrawn from this agreement, 
46.15 	and when this agreement takes effect generally. This agreement shall terminate if the electoral 
46.16 	college is abolished. If any provision of this agreement is held invalid, the remaining 
46.17 	provisions shall not be affected.
46.18 	Article V - Definitions
46.19 	For purposes of this agreement,
46.20 	"chief executive" means the governor of a state of the United States or the mayor of the 
46.21 	District of Columbia;
46.22 	"elector slate" means a slate of candidates who have been nominated in a state for the 
46.23 	position of presidential elector in association with a presidential slate;
46.24 	"chief election official" means the state official or body that is authorized to certify the 
46.25 	total number of popular votes for each presidential slate;
46.26 	"presidential elector" means an elector for president and vice president of the United 
46.27 	States;
46.28 	"presidential elector certifying official" means the state official or body that is authorized 
46.29 	to certify the appointment of the state's presidential electors;
46.30 	"presidential slate" means a slate of two persons, the first of whom has been nominated 
46.31 	as a candidate for president of the United States and the second of whom has been nominated 
46.32 	as a candidate for vice president of the United States, or any legal successors to such persons, 
47.1 	regardless of whether both names appear on the ballot presented to the voter in a particular 
47.2 	state;
47.3 	"state" means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia; and
47.4 	"statewide popular election" means a general election in which votes are cast for 
47.5 	presidential slates by individual voters and counted on a statewide basis.

47.6 	Sec. 69. [243.205] NOTICE OF RESTORATION OF RIGHT TO VOTE.
47.7 		Subdivision 1.Correctional facilities; designation of official. The chief executive 
47.8 	officer of each state and local correctional facility shall designate an official within the 
47.9 	facility to provide the notice and application required under this section to persons to whom 
47.10 	the civil right to vote is restored by reason of the persons' release from actual incarceration. 
47.11 	The official shall maintain an adequate supply of voter registration applications and 
47.12 	informational materials for this purpose.
47.13 		Subd. 2.Notice requirement. A notice of restoration of the civil right to vote and a 
47.14 	voter registration application must be provided as follows:
47.15 	(1) the chief executive officer of each state and local correctional facility shall provide 
47.16 	the notice and application to a person being released from the facility following incarceration 
47.17 	for a felony-level offense; and
47.18 	(2) a probation officer or supervised release agent shall provide the notice and application 
47.19 	to all individuals under correctional supervision for a felony-level offense.
47.20 		Subd. 3.Form of notice. The notice required by subdivision 2 must appear substantially 
47.21 	as follows:
47.22 	"NOTICE OF RESTORATION OF YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE.
47.23 	Your receipt of this notice today means that your right to vote in Minnesota has been 
47.24 	restored. Before you can vote on election day, you still need to register to vote. To register, 
47.25 	you may complete a voter registration application and return it to the Office of the Minnesota 
47.26 	Secretary of State. You may also register to vote in your polling place on election day. You 
47.27 	will not be permitted to cast a ballot until you register to vote. The first time you appear at 
47.28 	your polling place to cast a ballot, you may be required to provide proof of your current 
47.29 	residence."
47.30 		Subd. 4.Failure to provide notice. A failure to provide proper notice as required by 
47.31 	this section does not prevent the restoration of the person's civil right to vote.

48.1 	Sec. 70. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 473.408, is amended by adding a subdivision 
48.2 	to read:
48.3 		Subd. 11.Transit service on election day. (a) The Metropolitan Council shall provide 
48.4 	regular route transit, as defined under section 473.385, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), free 
48.5 	of charge on a day a state general election is held.
48.6 	(b) The requirements under this subdivision apply to operators of regular route transit 
48.7 	(1) receiving financial assistance under section 473.388, or (2) operating under section 
48.8 	473.405, subdivision 12.

48.9 	EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION. This section is effective July 1, 2020, and 
48.10 	applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington.

48.11 	Sec. 71. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 609.165, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
48.12 		Subdivision 1.Restoration. Except as provided in section 201.014, subdivision 2a, 
48.13 	when a person has been deprived of civil rights by reason of conviction of a crime and is 
48.14 	thereafter discharged, such discharge shall restore the person to all civil rights and to full 
48.15 	citizenship, with full right to vote and hold office, the same as if such conviction had not 
48.16 	taken place, and the order of discharge shall so provide.

48.17 	Sec. 72. HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT TRANSFERS AND APPROPRIATIONS; 
48.18 	SECRETARY OF STATE.
 48.19 	(a) $6,595,610 is appropriated in fiscal year 2019 from the HAVA account established 
48.20 	in Minnesota Statutes, section 5.30, to the secretary of state for the purposes of improving 
48.21 	the administration and security of elections as authorized by federal law, including but not 
48.22 	limited to any of the following activities:
48.23 	(1) modernizing, securing, and updating the statewide voter registration system and for 
48.24 	cybersecurity upgrades as authorized by federal law;
48.25 	(2) improving accessibility;
48.26 	(3) preparing training materials and training local election officials;
48.27 	(4) implementing security improvements for election systems; and
48.28 	(5) funding other activities to improve the security of elections.
48.29 	(b) Any amount earned in interest on the amount appropriated under paragraph (a) is 
48.30 	appropriated from the HAVA account to the secretary of state for purposes of improving 
48.31 	the administration and security of elections as authorized by federal law.
49.1 	(c) The appropriations under paragraphs (a) and (b) are onetime and available until 
49.2 	March 23, 2023.
49.3 	(d) $167,000 expended by the secretary of state in fiscal years 2018 and 2019 for 
49.4 	increasing secure access to the statewide voter registration system is deemed: (1) to be 
49.5 	money used for carrying out the purposes authorized under the Omnibus Appropriations 
49.6 	Act of 2018, Public Law 115-1410, and the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Public Law 
49.7 	107-252, section 101; and (2) to be credited toward any match required by those laws.

49.8 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

49.9 	Sec. 73. APPROPRIATION; EARLY VOTING.
 49.10 	$....... in fiscal year 2020 is appropriated from the general fund to the secretary of state 
49.11 	to implement early voting requirements of this article.

49.12 	Sec. 74.  REPEALER; EARLY VOTING.
 49.13 	Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 203B.081, subdivision 3, is repealed.

49.14 	Sec. 75. EFFECTIVE DATE; EARLY VOTING.
 49.15 	The provisions of this article related to early voting are effective when the secretary of 
49.16 	state has certified that:
49.17 	(1) the statewide voter registration system has been tested and shown to properly allow 
49.18 	for the tracking of the information required to conduct early voting, and can handle the 
49.19 	expected volume of use; and
49.20 	(2) precinct voting equipment that can tabulate at least 30 different ballot styles has been 
49.21 	certified for use in this state. Upon certification pursuant to this section, the provisions of 
49.22 	this act related to early voting apply to all federal, state, and county elections held on August 
49.23 	1, 2019, and thereafter. A jurisdiction may implement the requirements of this act prior to 
49.24 	the date provided in this section, if the secretary of state has made the required certifications 
49.25 	at least 90 days prior to the date of the election at which early voting will be used.

49.26 	ARTICLE 2
49.27 	CAMPAIGN FINANCE

49.28 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
49.29 		Subd. 4.Approved expenditure. "Approved expenditure" means an expenditure made 
49.30 	on behalf of a candidate or a local candidate by an entity other than the candidate's principal 
50.1 	campaign committee of the candidateor the local candidate, if the expenditure is made with 
50.2 	the authorization or expressed or implied consent of, or in cooperation or in concert with, 
50.3 	or at the request or suggestion of the candidate or local candidate, the candidate's principal 
50.4 	campaign committee, or the candidate's or local candidate's agent. An approved expenditure 
50.5 	is a contribution to that candidate or local candidate.

50.6 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
50.7 		Subd. 7.Ballot question. "Ballot question" means a question or proposition that is placed 
50.8 	on the ballot and that may be voted on by:
50.9 	(1) all voters of the state.;
50.10 	(2) all voters of Hennepin County;
50.11 	(3) all voters of any home rule charter city or statutory city located wholly within 
50.12 	Hennepin County and having a population of 75,000 or more; or
50.13 	(4) all voters of Special School District No. 1.
50.14 	"Promoting or defeating a ballot question" includes activities, other than lobbying 
50.15 	activities, related to qualifying the question for placement on the ballot.

50.16 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 9, is amended to read:
50.17 		Subd. 9.Campaign expenditure. "Campaign expenditure" or "expenditure" means a 
50.18 	purchase or payment of money or anything of value, or an advance of credit, made or 
50.19 	incurred for the purpose of influencing the nomination or election of a candidate or a local 
50.20 	candidate or for the purpose of promoting or defeating a ballot question.
50.21 	An expenditure is considered to be made in the year in which the candidate made the 
50.22 	purchase of goods or services or incurred an obligation to pay for goods or services.
50.23 	An expenditure made for the purpose of defeating a candidate or a local candidate is 
50.24 	considered made for the purpose of influencing the nomination or election of that candidate 
50.25 	or local candidate or any opponent of that candidate or local candidate.
50.26 	Except as provided in clause (1), "expenditure" includes the dollar value of a donation 
50.27 	in kind.
50.28 	"Expenditure" does not include:
50.29 	(1) noncampaign disbursements as defined in subdivision 26;
51.1 	(2) services provided without compensation by an individual volunteering personal time 
51.2 	on behalf of a candidate or a local candidate, ballot question, political committee, political 
51.3 	fund, principal campaign committee, or party unit;
51.4 	(3) the publishing or broadcasting of news items or editorial comments by the news 
51.5 	media; or
51.6 	(4) an individual's unreimbursed personal use of an automobile owned by the individual 
51.7 	and used by the individual while volunteering personal time.

51.8 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
51.9 	read:
51.10 		Subd. 10d.Local candidate. "Local candidate" means an individual who seeks 
51.11 	nomination or election to:
51.12 	(1) any county office in Hennepin County;
51.13 	(2) any city office in any home rule charter city or statutory city located wholly within 
51.14 	Hennepin County and having a population of 75,000 or more; or
51.15 	(3) the school board in Special School District No. 1.

51.16 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 11, is amended to read:
51.17 		Subd. 11.Contribution. (a) "Contribution" means money, a negotiable instrument, or 
51.18 	a donation in kind that is given to a political committee, political fund, principal campaign 
51.19 	committee, local candidate, or party unit. An allocation by an association of general treasury 
51.20 	money to be used for activities that must be or are reported through the association's political 
51.21 	fund is considered to be a contribution for the purposes of disclosure required by this chapter.
51.22 	(b) "Contribution" includes a loan or advance of credit to a political committee, political 
51.23 	fund, principal campaign committee, local candidate, or party unit, if the loan or advance 
51.24 	of credit is: (1) forgiven; or (2) repaid by an individual or an association other than the 
51.25 	political committee, political fund, principal campaign committee, local candidate, or party 
51.26 	unit to which the loan or advance of credit was made. If an advance of credit or a loan is 
51.27 	forgiven or repaid as provided in this paragraph, it is a contribution in the year in which the 
51.28 	loan or advance of credit was made.
51.29 	(c) "Contribution" does not include services provided without compensation by an 
51.30 	individual volunteering personal time on behalf of a candidate, local candidate, ballot 
51.31 	question, political committee, political fund, principal campaign committee, or party unit; 
52.1 	the publishing or broadcasting of news items or editorial comments by the news media; or 
52.2 	an individual's unreimbursed personal use of an automobile owned by the individual while 
52.3 	volunteering personal time.

52.4 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 16a, is amended to read:
52.5 		Subd. 16a.Expressly advocating. "Expressly advocating" means:
52.6 	(1) that a communication clearly identifies a candidate or a local candidate and uses 
52.7 	words or phrases of express advocacy.; or
52.8 	(2) that a communication when taken as a whole and with limited reference to external 
52.9 	events, such as the proximity to the election, is susceptible of no reasonable interpretation 
52.10 	other than as an appeal advocating the election or defeat of one or more clearly identified 
52.11 	candidates.

52.12 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2019, except that clause (2) 
52.13 	is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to expenditures and electioneering communications 
52.14 	made on or after that date.

52.15 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 17c, is amended to read:
52.16 		Subd. 17c.General treasury money. "General treasury money" means money that an 
52.17 	association other than a principal campaign committee, party unit, or political committee 
52.18 	accumulates through membership dues and fees, donations to the association for its general 
52.19 	purposes, and income from the operation of a business. General treasury money does not 
52.20 	include money collected to influence the nomination or election of candidates or local 
52.21 	candidates or to promote or defeat a ballot question.

52.22 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 18, is amended to read:
52.23 		Subd. 18.Independent expenditure. "Independent expenditure" means an expenditure 
52.24 	expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or local candidate, 
52.25 	if the expenditure is made without the express or implied consent, authorization, or 
52.26 	cooperation of, and not in concert with or at the request or suggestion of, any candidate or 
52.27 	any candidate's principal campaign committee or agent or any local candidate or local 
52.28 	candidate's agent. An independent expenditure is not a contribution to that candidate or 
52.29 	local candidate. An independent expenditure does not include the act of announcing a formal 
52.30 	public endorsement of a candidate or local candidate for public office, unless the act is 
52.31 	simultaneously accompanied by an expenditure that would otherwise qualify as an 
52.32 	independent expenditure under this subdivision.

53.1 	Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 20, is amended to read:
53.2 		Subd. 20.Loan. "Loan" means an advance of money or anything of value made to a 
53.3 	political committee, political fund, principal campaign committee, local candidate, or party 
53.4 	unit.

53.5 	Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 26, is amended to read:
53.6 		Subd. 26.Noncampaign disbursement. (a) "Noncampaign disbursement" means a 
53.7 	purchase or payment of money or anything of value made, or an advance of credit incurred, 
53.8 	or a donation in kind received, by a principal campaign committee for any of the following 
53.9 	purposes:
53.10 	(1) payment for accounting and legal services;
53.11 	(2) return of a contribution to the source;
53.12 	(3) repayment of a loan made to the principal campaign committee by that committee;
53.13 	(4) return of a public subsidy;
53.14 	(5) payment for food, beverages, and necessary utensils and supplies, entertainment, 
53.15 	and facility rental for a fund-raising event;
53.16 	(6) services for a constituent by a member of the legislature or a constitutional officer 
53.17 	in the executive branch as provided in section 10A.173, subdivision 1;
53.18 	(7) payment for food and beverages consumed by a candidate or volunteers while they 
53.19 	are engaged in campaign activities;
53.20 	(8) payment for food or a beverage consumed while attending a reception or meeting 
53.21 	directly related to legislative duties;
53.22 	(9) payment of expenses incurred by elected or appointed leaders of a legislative caucus 
53.23 	in carrying out their leadership responsibilities;
53.24 	(10) payment by a principal campaign committee of the candidate's expenses for serving 
53.25 	in public office, other than for personal uses;
53.26 	(11) costs of child care for the candidate's children when campaigning;
53.27 	(12) fees paid to attend a campaign school;
53.28 	(13) costs of a postelection party during the election year when a candidate's name will 
53.29 	no longer appear on a ballot or the general election is concluded, whichever occurs first;
53.30 	(14) interest on loans paid by a principal campaign committee on outstanding loans;
54.1 	(15) filing fees;
54.2 	(16) post-general election holiday or seasonal cards, thank-you notes, or advertisements 
54.3 	in the news media mailed or published prior to the end of the election cycle;
54.4 	(17) the cost of campaign material purchased to replace defective campaign material, if 
54.5 	the defective material is destroyed without being used;
54.6 	(18) contributions to a party unit;
54.7 	(19) payments for funeral gifts or memorials;
54.8 	(20) the cost of a magnet less than six inches in diameter containing legislator contact 
54.9 	information and distributed to constituents;
54.10 	(21) costs associated with a candidate attending a political party state or national 
54.11 	convention in this state;
54.12 	(22) other purchases or payments specified in board rules or advisory opinions as being 
54.13 	for any purpose other than to influence the nomination or election of a candidate or to 
54.14 	promote or defeat a ballot question;
54.15 	(23) costs paid to a third party for processing contributions made by a credit card, debit 
54.16 	card, or electronic check;
54.17 	(24) a contribution to a fund established to support a candidate's participation in a recount 
54.18 	of ballots affecting that candidate's election;
54.19 	(25) costs paid by a candidate's principal campaign committee for a single reception 
54.20 	given in honor of the candidate's retirement from public office after the filing period for 
54.21 	affidavits of candidacy for that office has closed;
54.22 	(26) a donation from a terminating principal campaign committee to the state general 
54.23 	fund; and
54.24 	(27) a donation from a terminating principal campaign committee to a county obligated 
54.25 	to incur special election expenses due to that candidate's resignation from state office.; and
54.26 	(28) payment of security-related expenses for a candidate and any immediate family 
54.27 	members of the candidate residing in the candidate's household, including but not limited 
54.28 	to home security cameras, a home security system, and identity theft monitoring services.
54.29 	(b) The board must determine whether an activity involves a noncampaign disbursement 
54.30 	within the meaning of this subdivision.
55.1 	(c) A noncampaign disbursement is considered to be made in the year in which the 
55.2 	candidate made the purchase of goods or services or incurred an obligation to pay for goods 
55.3 	or services.

55.4 	Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 27, is amended to read:
55.5 		Subd. 27.Political committee. "Political committee" means an association whose major 
55.6 	purpose is to influence the nomination or election of one or more candidates or local 
55.7 	candidates or to promote or defeat a ballot question, other than a principal campaign 
55.8 	committee, local candidate, or a political party unit.

55.9 	Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.01, subdivision 28, is amended to read:
55.10 		Subd. 28.Political fund. "Political fund" means an accumulation of dues or voluntary 
55.11 	contributions by an association other than a political committee, principal campaign 
55.12 	committee, or party unit, if the accumulation is collected or expended to influence the 
55.13 	nomination or election of one or more candidates or local candidates or to promote or defeat 
55.14 	a ballot question. The term political fund as used in this chapter may also refer to the 
55.15 	association acting through its political fund.

55.16 	Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.12, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
55.17 		Subdivision 1.When required for contributions and approved expenditures. An 
55.18 	association other than a political committee or party unit may not contribute more than $750 
55.19 	in aggregate in any calendar year to candidates, local candidates, political committees, or 
55.20 	party units or make approved expenditures of more than $750 in aggregate in any calendar 
55.21 	year unless the contribution or expenditure is made through a political fund.

55.22 	Sec. 14. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.12, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
55.23 		Subd. 2.Commingling prohibited. The contents of an association's political fund may 
55.24 	not be commingled with other funds or with the personal funds of an officer or member of 
55.25 	the association or the fund. It is not commingling for an association that uses only its own 
55.26 	general treasury money to make expenditures and disbursements permitted under section 
55.27 	10A.121, subdivision 1, directly from the depository used for its general treasury money. 
55.28 	An association that accepts more than $1,500 in aggregate in contributions to influence the 
55.29 	nomination or election of candidates or local candidates or more than $5,000 in contributions 
55.30 	to promote or defeat a ballot question must establish a separate depository for those 
55.31 	contributions.

56.1 	Sec. 15. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.121, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
56.2 		Subdivision 1.Permitted disbursements. An independent expenditure political 
56.3 	committee or fund, or a ballot question political committee or fund, may:
56.4 	(1) pay costs associated with its fund-raising and general operations;
56.5 	(2) pay for communications that do not constitute contributions or approved expenditures;
56.6 	(3) make contributions to independent expenditure or ballot question political committees 
56.7 	or funds;
56.8 	(4) make independent expenditures;
56.9 	(5) make expenditures to promote or defeat ballot questions;
56.10 	(6) return a contribution to its source;
56.11 	(7) for a political fund, record bookkeeping entries transferring the association's general 
56.12 	treasury money allocated for political purposes back to the general treasury of the association; 
56.13 	and
56.14 	(8) for a political fund, return general treasury money transferred to a separate depository 
56.15 	to the general depository of the association.; and
56.16 	(9) make disbursements for electioneering communications.

56.17 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to 
56.18 	expenditures and electioneering communications made on or after that date.

56.19 	Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.121, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
56.20 		Subd. 2.Penalty. (a) An independent expenditure political committee or independent 
56.21 	expenditure political fund is subject to a civil penalty of up to four times the amount of the 
56.22 	contribution or approved expenditure if it does the following:
56.23 	(1) makes a contribution to a candidate, local candidate, party unit, political committee, 
56.24 	or political fund other than an independent expenditure political committee or an independent 
56.25 	expenditure political fund; or
56.26 	(2) makes an approved expenditure.
56.27 	(b) No other penalty provided in law may be imposed for conduct that is subject to a 
56.28 	civil penalty under this section.

57.1 	Sec. 17. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.13, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
57.2 		Subdivision 1.Accounts; penalty. The treasurer of a political committee, political fund, 
57.3 	principal campaign committee, or party unit must keep an account of:
57.4 	(1) the sum of all contributions, except any donation in kind valued at $20 or less, made 
57.5 	to the committee, fund, or party unit;
57.6 	(2) the name and address of each source of a contribution made to the committee, fund, 
57.7 	or party unit in excess of $20, together with the date and amount of each;
57.8 	(3) each expenditure made by the committee, fund, or party unit, together with the date 
57.9 	and amount;
57.10 	(4) each approved expenditure made on behalf of the committee, fund, or party unit, 
57.11 	together with the date and amount; and
57.12 	(5) the name and address of each political committee, political fund, principal campaign 
57.13 	committee, local candidate, or party unit to which contributions in excess of $20 have been 
57.14 	made, together with the date and amount.
57.15 	Any individual who knowingly violates this subdivision is subject to a civil penalty 
57.16 	imposed by the board of up to $1,000.

57.17 	Sec. 18. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.17, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
57.18 		Subd. 4.Independent expenditures. An individual, political committee, political fund, 
57.19 	principal campaign committee, or party unit that independently solicits or accepts 
57.20 	contributions or makes independent expenditures on behalf of a candidate or local candidate
57.21 	must publicly disclose that the expenditure is an independent expenditure. All written and 
57.22 	broadcast communications with those from whom contributions are independently solicited 
57.23 	or accepted or to whom independent expenditures are made on behalf of a candidate or local 
57.24 	candidate must contain a statement in substantially the form provided in section 211B.04, 
57.25 	subdivision 2. The statement must be on the front page of all written communications and 
57.26 	at the end of all broadcast communications made by that individual, political committee, 
57.27 	political fund, principal campaign committee, or party unit on the candidate's or local 
57.28 	candidate's behalf.

58.1 	Sec. 19. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.20, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
58.2 	read:
58.3 		Subd. 2a.Local election reports. (a) This subdivision applies to a political committee, 
58.4 	political fund, or political party unit that during a nongeneral election year:
58.5 	(1) spends in aggregate more than $200 to influence the nomination or election of local 
58.6 	candidates;
58.7 	(2) spends in aggregate more than $200 to make independent expenditures on behalf of 
58.8 	local candidates; or
58.9 	(3) spends in aggregate more than $200 to promote or defeat ballot questions defined 
58.10 	in section 10A.01, subdivision 7, clause (2), (3), or (4).
58.11 	(b) In addition to the reports required under subdivision 2, the entities listed in paragraph 
58.12 	(a) must file the following reports in each nongeneral election year:
58.13 	(1) a first-quarter report covering the calendar year through March 31, which is due 
58.14 	April 14;
58.15 	(2) a report covering the calendar year through May 31, which is due June 14;
58.16 	(3) a pre-primary-election report due 15 days before the local primary election date 
58.17 	specified in section 205.065;
58.18 	(4) a pre-general-election report due 42 days before the local general election; and
58.19 	(5) a pre-general-election report due ten days before a local general election.
58.20 	The reporting obligations in this paragraph begin with the first report due after the 
58.21 	reporting period in which the entity reaches the spending threshold specified in paragraph 
58.22 	(a).

58.23 	Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.20, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
58.24 		Subd. 3.Contents of report. (a) The report required by this section must include each 
58.25 	of the items listed in paragraphs (b) to (q) that are applicable to the filer. The board shall 
58.26 	prescribe forms based on filer type indicating which of those items must be included on the 
58.27 	filer's report.
58.28 	(b) The report must disclose the amount of liquid assets on hand at the beginning of the 
58.29 	reporting period.
58.30 	(c) The report must disclose the name, address, employer, or occupation if self-employed, 
58.31 	and registration number if registered with the board, of each individual or association that 
59.1 	has made one or more contributions to the reporting entity, including the purchase of tickets 
59.2 	for a fund-raising effort, that in aggregate within the year exceed $200 for legislative or 
59.3 	statewide candidates or more than $500 for ballot questions, together with the amount and 
59.4 	date of each contribution, and the aggregate amount of contributions within the year from 
59.5 	each source so disclosed. A donation in kind must be disclosed at its fair market value. An 
59.6 	approved expenditure must be listed as a donation in kind. A donation in kind is considered 
59.7 	consumed in the reporting period in which it is received. The names of contributors must 
59.8 	be listed in alphabetical order. Contributions from the same contributor must be listed under 
59.9 	the same name. When a contribution received from a contributor in a reporting period is 
59.10 	added to previously reported unitemized contributions from the same contributor and the 
59.11 	aggregate exceeds the disclosure threshold of this paragraph, the name, address, and 
59.12 	employer, or occupation if self-employed, of the contributor must then be listed on the 
59.13 	report.
59.14 	(d) The report must disclose the sum of contributions to the reporting entity during the 
59.15 	reporting period.
59.16 	(e) The report must disclose each loan made or received by the reporting entity within 
59.17 	the year in aggregate in excess of $200, continuously reported until repaid or forgiven, 
59.18 	together with the name, address, occupation, principal place of business, if any, and 
59.19 	registration number if registered with the board of the lender and any endorser and the date 
59.20 	and amount of the loan. If a loan made to the principal campaign committee of a candidate 
59.21 	is forgiven or is repaid by an entity other than that principal campaign committee, it must 
59.22 	be reported as a contribution for the year in which the loan was made.
59.23 	(f) The report must disclose each receipt over $200 during the reporting period not 
59.24 	otherwise listed under paragraphs (c) to (e).
59.25 	(g) The report must disclose the sum of all receipts of the reporting entity during the 
59.26 	reporting period.
59.27 	(h) The report must disclose the following:
59.28 	(1) the name, address, and registration number if registered with the board of each 
59.29 	individual or association to whom aggregate expenditures, approved expenditures, 
59.30 	independent expenditures, and ballot question expenditures, and disbursements for 
59.31 	electioneering communications have been made by or on behalf of the reporting entity 
59.32 	within the year in excess of $200, together with;
59.33 	(2) the amount, date, and purpose of each expenditure, including an explanation of how 
59.34 	the expenditure was used, and ;
60.1 	(3) the name and address of, and office sought by, each candidate or local candidate on 
60.2 	whose behalf the expenditure was made, or, in the case of electioneering communications, 
60.3 	each candidate identified positively in the communication;
60.4 	(4) identification of the ballot question that the expenditure was intended to promote or 
60.5 	defeat and an indication of whether the expenditure was to promote or to defeat the ballot 
60.6 	question,; and
60.7 	(5) in the case of independent expenditures made in opposition to a candidate, local 
60.8 	candidate, or electioneering communications in which a candidate is identified negatively, 
60.9 	the candidate's or local candidate's name, address, and office sought. A reporting entity 
60.10 	making an expenditure on behalf of more than one candidate for state or legislative office
60.11 	must allocate the expenditure among the candidates or local candidates on a reasonable cost 
60.12 	basis and report the allocation for each candidate or local candidate. The report must list 
60.13 	on separate schedules any independent expenditures made on behalf of local candidates and 
60.14 	any expenditures made for ballot questions as defined in section 10A.01, subdivision 7, 
60.15 	clause (2), (3), or (4).
60.16 	(i) The report must disclose the sum of all expenditures made by or on behalf of the 
60.17 	reporting entity during the reporting period.
60.18 	(j) The report must disclose the amount and nature of an advance of credit incurred by 
60.19 	the reporting entity, continuously reported until paid or forgiven. If an advance of credit 
60.20 	incurred by the principal campaign committee of a candidate is forgiven by the creditor or 
60.21 	paid by an entity other than that principal campaign committee, it must be reported as a 
60.22 	donation in kind for the year in which the advance of credit was made.
60.23 	(k) The report must disclose the name, address, and registration number if registered 
60.24 	with the board of each political committee, political fund, principal campaign committee, 
60.25 	local candidate, or party unit to which contributions have been made that aggregate in excess 
60.26 	of $200 within the year and the amount and date of each contribution. The report must list 
60.27 	on separate schedules any contributions made to state candidates' principal campaign 
60.28 	committees and any contributions made to local candidates.
60.29 	(l) The report must disclose the sum of all contributions made by the reporting entity 
60.30 	during the reporting period and must separately disclose the sum of all contributions made 
60.31 	to local candidates by the reporting entity during the reporting period.
60.32 	(m) The report must disclose the name, address, and registration number if registered 
60.33 	with the board of each individual or association to whom noncampaign disbursements have 
60.34 	been made that aggregate in excess of $200 within the year by or on behalf of the reporting 
61.1 	entity and the amount, date, and purpose of each noncampaign disbursement, including an 
61.2 	explanation of how the expenditure was used.
61.3 	(n) The report must disclose the sum of all noncampaign disbursements made within 
61.4 	the year by or on behalf of the reporting entity.
61.5 	(o) The report must disclose the name and address of a nonprofit corporation that provides 
61.6 	administrative assistance to a political committee or political fund as authorized by section 
61.7 	211B.15, subdivision 17, the type of administrative assistance provided, and the aggregate 
61.8 	fair market value of each type of assistance provided to the political committee or political 
61.9 	fund during the reporting period.
61.10 	(p) Legislative, statewide, and judicial candidates, party units, and political committees 
61.11 	and funds must itemize contributions that in aggregate within the year exceed $200 for 
61.12 	legislative or statewide candidates or more than $500 for ballot questions on reports submitted 
61.13 	to the board. The itemization must include the date on which the contribution was received, 
61.14 	the individual or association that provided the contribution, and the address of the contributor. 
61.15 	Additionally, the itemization for a donation in kind must provide a description of the item 
61.16 	or service received. Contributions that are less than the itemization amount must be reported 
61.17 	as an aggregate total.
61.18 	(q) Legislative, statewide, and judicial candidates, party units, political committees and 
61.19 	funds, and committees to promote or defeat a ballot question must itemize expenditures and 
61.20 	noncampaign disbursements that in aggregate exceed $200 in a calendar year on reports 
61.21 	submitted to the board. The itemization must include the date on which the committee made 
61.22 	or became obligated to make the expenditure or disbursement, the name and address of the 
61.23 	vendor that provided the service or item purchased, and a description of the service or item 
61.24 	purchased, including an explanation of how the expenditure was used. Expenditures and 
61.25 	noncampaign disbursements must be listed on the report alphabetically by vendor.

61.26 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2019, except that the 
61.27 	amendments related to electioneering communications are effective January 1, 2020, and 
61.28 	apply to expenditures and electioneering communications made on or after that date.

61.29 	Sec. 21. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.20, subdivision 6a, is amended to read:
61.30 		Subd. 6a.Statement of independence. An individual, political committee, political 
61.31 	fund, or party unit filing a report or statement disclosing an independent expenditure under 
61.32 	subdivision 3 or 6 must file with the report a sworn statement that the disclosed expenditures 
61.33 	were not made with the authorization or expressed or implied consent of, or in cooperation 
62.1 	or in concert with, or at the request or suggestion of any candidate;or any candidate's 
62.2 	principal campaign committee or agent; any local candidate or any local candidate's agent.

62.3 	Sec. 22. [10A.201] ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS.
62.4 		Subdivision 1.Electioneering communication. (a) "Electioneering communication" 
62.5 	means a communication distributed by television, radio, satellite, the Internet, or cable 
62.6 	broadcasting system; by means of printed material, signs, or billboards; through the use of 
62.7 	telephone communications; or by electronic communication, including electronic mail or 
62.8 	electronic text messaging that:
62.9 	(1) refers to a clearly identified candidate;
62.10 	(2) is made within:
62.11 	(i) 30 days before a primary election or special primary election for the office sought 
62.12 	by the candidate; or
62.13 	(ii) 60 days before a general election or special election for the office sought by the 
62.14 	candidate;
62.15 	(3) is targeted to the relevant electorate; and
62.16 	(4) is made without the express or implied consent, authorization, or cooperation of, and 
62.17 	not in concert with or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate or a candidate's principal 
62.18 	campaign committee or agent.
62.19 	(b) Electioneering communication does not include:
62.20 	(1) the publishing or broadcasting of news items or editorial comments by the news 
62.21 	media;
62.22 	(2) a communication that constitutes an approved expenditure or an independent 
62.23 	expenditure;
62.24 	(3) a voter guide, which is a pamphlet or similar printed material, intended to help voters 
62.25 	compare candidates' positions on a set of issues, as long as each of the following is true:
62.26 	(i) the guide does not focus on a single issue or a narrow range of issues, but includes 
62.27 	questions and subjects sufficient to encompass major issues of interest to the entire electorate;
62.28 	(ii) the questions and any other description of the issues are clear and unbiased in both 
62.29 	their structure and content;
62.30 	(iii) the questions posed and provided to the candidates are identical to those included 
62.31 	in the guide;
63.1 	(iv) each candidate included in the guide is given a reasonable amount of time and the 
63.2 	same opportunity as other candidates to respond to the questions;
63.3 	(v) if the candidate is given limited choices for an answer to a question, for example: 
63.4 	"support," "oppose," "yes," or "no," the candidate is also given an opportunity, subject to 
63.5 	reasonable limits, to explain the candidate's position in the candidate's own words; the fact 
63.6 	that a candidate provided an explanation is clearly indicated in the guide; and the guide 
63.7 	clearly indicates that the explanations will be made available for public inspection, subject 
63.8 	to reasonable conditions;
63.9 	(vi) answers included in the guide are those provided by the candidates in response to 
63.10 	questions, the candidates' answers are unedited, and the answers appear in close proximity 
63.11 	to the question to which they respond;
63.12 	(vii) if the guide includes candidates' positions based on information other than responses 
63.13 	provided directly by the candidate, the positions are based on recorded votes or public 
63.14 	statements of the candidates and are presented in an unedited and unbiased manner; and
63.15 	(viii) the guide includes all major party candidates for each office listed in the guide;
63.16 	(4) a candidate forum or debate hosted by one or more nonprofit organizations that does 
63.17 	not endorse, support, or oppose candidates, as long as each of the following is true:
63.18 	(i) the forum or debate includes the participation of at least two candidates for each 
63.19 	office featured;
63.20 	(ii) the forum or debate is structured so that it does not promote one candidate or one 
63.21 	candidate's issues of interest over another; and
63.22 	(iii) candidates are selected for participation in the forum or debate based on 
63.23 	preestablished, objective criteria;
63.24 	(5) any other communication specified in board rules or advisory opinions as being 
63.25 	excluded from the definition of electioneering communication; or
63.26 	(6) a communication that:
63.27 	(i) refers to a clearly identified candidate who is an incumbent member of the legislature 
63.28 	or a constitutional officer;
63.29 	(ii) refers to a clearly identified issue that is or was before the legislature in the form of 
63.30 	an introduced bill; and
63.31 	(iii) is made when the legislature is in session or within ten days after the last day of a 
63.32 	regular session of the legislature.
64.1 	(c) A communication that meets the requirements of paragraph (a) but is made with the 
64.2 	authorization or express or implied consent of, or in cooperation or in concert with, or at 
64.3 	the request or suggestion of a candidate, a candidate's principal campaign committee, or a 
64.4 	candidate's agent is an approved expenditure.
64.5 	(d) Distributing a voter guide questionnaire, survey, or similar document to candidates 
64.6 	and communications with candidates limited to obtaining their responses, without more, do 
64.7 	not constitute communications that would result in the voter guide being an approved 
64.8 	expenditure on behalf of the candidate.
64.9 		Subd. 2.Targeted to relevant electorate. (a) For purposes of this section, a 
64.10 	communication that refers to a clearly identified candidate is targeted to the relevant electorate 
64.11 	if the communication is distributed to or can be received by more than 1,500 persons in the 
64.12 	district the candidate seeks to represent, in the case of a candidate for the house of 
64.13 	representatives, senate, or a district court judicial office or by more than 6,000 persons in 
64.14 	the state, in the case of a candidate for constitutional office or appellate court judicial office. 
64.15 	When determining the number of persons to whom a communication in the form of printed 
64.16 	material, telephone communication, electronic mail, or electronic text messaging is 
64.17 	distributed, an association may exclude communications distributed to its own members.
64.18 	(b) A communication consisting of printed materials, other than signs, billboards, or 
64.19 	advertisements published in the print media, is targeted to the relevant electorate if it meets 
64.20 	the requirements of paragraph (a) and is distributed to voters by means of United States 
64.21 	mail or through direct delivery to a resident's home or business.
64.22 		Subd. 3.Disclosure of electioneering communications. (a) Electioneering 
64.23 	communications made by a political committee, a party unit, or a principal campaign 
64.24 	committee must be disclosed on the periodic reports of receipts and expenditures filed by 
64.25 	the association on the schedule and in accordance with the terms of section 10A.20.
64.26 	(b) An association other than a political committee, party unit, or principal campaign 
64.27 	committee may register a political fund with the board and disclose its electioneering 
64.28 	communications on the reports of receipts and expenditures filed by the political fund. If it 
64.29 	does so, it must disclose its disbursements for electioneering communications on the schedule 
64.30 	and in accordance with the terms of section 10A.20.
64.31 	(c) An association that does not disclose its disbursements for electioneering 
64.32 	communications under paragraph (a) or (b) must disclose its electioneering communications 
64.33 	according to the requirements of subdivision 4.
65.1 		Subd. 4.Statement required for electioneering communications. (a) Except for 
65.2 	associations providing disclosure as specified in subdivision 3, paragraph (a) or (b), every 
65.3 	person who makes a disbursement for the costs of producing or distributing electioneering 
65.4 	communications that aggregate more than $1,500 in a calendar year must, within 24 hours 
65.5 	of each disclosure date, file with the board a disclosure statement containing the information 
65.6 	described in this subdivision.
65.7 	(b) Each statement required to be filed under this section must contain the following 
65.8 	information:
65.9 	(1) the names of: (i) the association making the disbursement; (ii) any person exercising 
65.10 	direction or control over the activities of the association with respect to the disbursement; 
65.11 	and (iii) the custodian of the financial records of the association making the disbursement;
65.12 	(2) the address of the association making the disbursement;
65.13 	(3) the amount of each disbursement of more than $200 during the period covered by 
65.14 	the statement, a description of the purpose of the disbursement, and the identification of the 
65.15 	person to whom the disbursement was made;
65.16 	(4) the names of the candidates identified or to be identified in the communication;
65.17 	(5) if the disbursements were paid out of a segregated bank account that consists of funds 
65.18 	donated specifically for electioneering communications, the name and address of each 
65.19 	person who gave the association more than $200 in aggregate to that account during the 
65.20 	period beginning on the first day of the preceding calendar year and ending on the disclosure 
65.21 	date; and
65.22 	(6) if the disbursements for electioneering communications were made using general 
65.23 	treasury money of the association, an association that has paid more than $5,000 in aggregate 
65.24 	for electioneering communications during the calendar year must file with its disclosure 
65.25 	statement a written statement that includes the name, address, and amount attributable to 
65.26 	each person that paid the association membership dues or fees, or made donations to the 
65.27 	association that, in total, aggregate more than $5,000 of the money used by the association 
65.28 	for electioneering communications. The statement must also include the total amount of the 
65.29 	disbursements for electioneering communications attributable to persons not subject to 
65.30 	itemization under this clause. The statement must be certified as true by an officer of the 
65.31 	association that made the disbursements for the electioneering communications.
65.32 	(c) To determine the amount of the membership dues or fees, or donations made by a 
65.33 	person to an association and attributable to the association's disbursements for electioneering 
66.1 	communications, the association must separately prorate the total disbursements made for 
66.2 	electioneering communications during the calendar year over all general treasury money 
66.3 	received during the calendar year.
66.4 	(d) If the amount spent for electioneering communications exceeds the amount of general 
66.5 	treasury money received by the association during that year:
66.6 	(1) the electioneering communications must be attributed first to all receipts of general 
66.7 	treasury money received during the calendar year in which the electioneering communications 
66.8 	were made;
66.9 	(2) any amount of current year electioneering communications that exceeds the total of 
66.10 	all receipts of general treasury money during the current calendar year must be prorated 
66.11 	over all general treasury money received in the preceding calendar year; and
66.12 	(3) if the allocation made in clauses (1) and (2) is insufficient to cover the subject 
66.13 	electioneering communications, no further allocation is required.
66.14 	(e) After a portion of the general treasury money received by an association from a 
66.15 	person has been designated as the source of a disbursement for electioneering 
66.16 	communications, that portion of the association's general treasury money received from that 
66.17 	person may not be designated as the source of any other disbursement for electioneering 
66.18 	communications or as the source for any contribution to an independent expenditure political 
66.19 	committee or fund.
66.20 		Subd. 5.Disclosure date. For purposes of this section, the term "disclosure date" means 
66.21 	the earlier of:
66.22 	(1) the first date on which an electioneering communication is publicly distributed, 
66.23 	provided that the person making the electioneering communication has made disbursements 
66.24 	for the direct costs of producing or distributing one or more electioneering communication 
66.25 	aggregating in excess of $1,500; or
66.26 	(2) any other date during the same calendar year on which an electioneering 
66.27 	communication is publicly distributed, provided that the person making the electioneering 
66.28 	communication has made disbursements for the direct costs of distributing one or more 
66.29 	electioneering communication aggregating in excess of $1,500 since the most recent 
66.30 	disclosure date.
66.31 		Subd. 6.Contracts to disburse. For purposes of this section, a person shall be treated 
66.32 	as having made a disbursement if the person has entered into an obligation to make the 
66.33 	disbursement.
67.1 		Subd. 7.Statement of attribution. (a) An electioneering communication must include 
67.2 	a statement of attribution.
67.3 	(1) For communications distributed by printed material, signs, and billboards, the 
67.4 	statement must say, in conspicuous letters: "Paid for by [association name] [address]."
67.5 	(2) For communications distributed by television, radio, satellite, or cable broadcasting 
67.6 	system, the statement must be included at the end of the communication and must orally 
67.7 	state at a volume and speed that a person of ordinary hearing can comprehend: "The preceding 
67.8 	communication was paid for by the [association name]."
67.9 	(3) For communications distributed by telephone, the statement must precede the 
67.10 	communication and must orally state at a volume and speed that a person of ordinary hearing 
67.11 	can comprehend: "The following communication is paid for by the [association name]."
67.12 	(b) If the communication is paid for by an association registered with the board, the 
67.13 	statement of attribution must use the association's name as it is registered with the board. 
67.14 	If the communication is paid for by an association not registered with the board, the statement 
67.15 	of attribution must use the association's name as it is disclosed to the board on the 
67.16 	association's disclosure statement associated with the communication.
67.17 		Subd. 8.Failure to file; penalty. (a) If a person fails to file a statement required by this 
67.18 	section by the date the statement is due, the board may impose a late filing fee of $50 per 
67.19 	day, not to exceed $1,000, commencing the day after the statement was due.
67.20 	(b) The board must send notice by certified mail to a person who fails to file a statement 
67.21 	within ten business days after the statement was due that the person may be subject to a 
67.22 	civil penalty for failure to file the statement. A person who fails to file the statement within 
67.23 	seven days after the certified mail notice was sent by the board is subject to a civil penalty 
67.24 	imposed by the board of up to $1,000.
67.25 	(c) An association that provides disclosure under section 10A.20 rather than under this 
67.26 	section is subject to the late filing fee and civil penalty provisions of section 10A.20 and is 
67.27 	not subject to the penalties provided in this subdivision.
67.28 	(d) An association that makes electioneering communications under this section and 
67.29 	willfully fails to provide the statement required by subdivision 4, paragraph (b), clause (6), 
67.30 	within the time specified is subject to an additional civil penalty of up to four times the 
67.31 	amount of the electioneering communications disbursements that should have been included 
67.32 	on the statement.

68.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to 
68.2 	expenditures and electioneering communications made on or after that date.

68.3 	Sec. 23. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.244, is amended to read:
68.4 	10A.244 VOLUNTARY INACTIVE STATUS; POLITICAL FUNDS.
68.5 		Subdivision 1.Election of voluntary inactive status. An association that has a political 
68.6 	fund registered under this chapter may elect to have the fund placed on voluntary inactive 
68.7 	status if the following conditions are met:
68.8 	(1) the association makes a written request for inactive status;
68.9 	(2) the association has filed all periodic reports required by this chapter and has received 
68.10 	no contributions into its political fund and made no expenditures or disbursements, including 
68.11 	disbursements for electioneering communications, through its political fund since the last 
68.12 	date included on the association's most recent report; and
68.13 	(3) the association has satisfied all obligations to the state for late filing fees and civil 
68.14 	penalties imposed by the board or the board has waived this requirement.
68.15 		Subd. 2.Effect of voluntary inactive status. After an association has complied with 
68.16 	the requirements of subdivision 1:
68.17 	(1) the board must notify the association that its political fund has been placed in 
68.18 	voluntary inactive status and of the terms of this section;
68.19 	(2) the board must stop sending the association reports, forms, and notices of report due 
68.20 	dates that are periodically sent to entities registered with the board;
68.21 	(3) the association is not required to file periodic disclosure reports for its political fund 
68.22 	as otherwise required under this chapter;
68.23 	(4) the association may not accept contributions into its political fund and may not make 
68.24 	expenditures, contributions, or disbursements, including disbursements for electioneering 
68.25 	communications, through its political fund; and
68.26 	(5) if the association maintains a separate depository account for its political fund, it 
68.27 	may continue to pay bank service charges and receive interest paid on that account while 
68.28 	its political fund is in inactive status.
68.29 		Subd. 3.Resumption of active status or termination. (a) An association that has placed 
68.30 	its political fund in voluntary inactive status may resume active status upon written notice 
68.31 	to the board.
69.1 	(b) A political fund placed in voluntary inactive status must resume active status within 
69.2 	14 days of the date that it has accepted contributions or made expenditures, contributions, 
69.3 	or disbursements, including disbursements for electioneering communications, that aggregate 
69.4 	more than $750 since the political fund was placed on inactive status. If, after meeting this 
69.5 	threshold, the association does not notify the board that its fund has resumed active status, 
69.6 	the board may place the association's political fund in active status and notify the association 
69.7 	of the change in status.
69.8 	(c) An association that has placed its political fund in voluntary inactive status may 
69.9 	terminate the registration of the fund without returning it to active status.
69.10 		Subd. 4.Penalty for financial activity while in voluntary inactive status. If an 
69.11 	association fails to notify the board of its political fund's resumption of active status under 
69.12 	subdivision 3, the board may impose a civil penalty of $50 per day, not to exceed $1,000 
69.13 	commencing on the 15th calendar day after the fund resumed active status.

69.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to 
69.15 	expenditures and electioneering communications made on or after that date.

69.16 	Sec. 24. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.25, subdivision 3a, is amended to read:
69.17 		Subd. 3a.Independent expenditures and electioneering communications. The principal 
69.18 	campaign committee of a candidate must not make independent expenditures or 
69.19 	disbursements for electioneering communications. If the principal campaign committee of 
69.20 	a candidate makes a contribution to an independent expenditure committee or independent 
69.21 	expenditure fund on or after January 1 of the year the candidate's office will appear on the 
69.22 	ballot, the independent expenditure committee or independent expenditure fund must not 
69.23 	make an independent expenditure for that candidate.

69.24 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to 
69.25 	expenditures and electioneering communications made on or after that date.

69.26 	Sec. 25. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.27, subdivision 15, is amended to read:
69.27 		Subd. 15.Contributions or use of general treasury money. (a) An association may, 
69.28 	if not prohibited by other law, contribute its general treasury money to an independent 
69.29 	expenditure or ballot question political committee or fund, including its own independent 
69.30 	expenditure or ballot question political committee or fund, without complying with 
69.31 	subdivision 13.
70.1 	(b) Before the day when the recipient committee or fund's next report must be filed with 
70.2 	the board under section 10A.20, subdivision 2 or 5, an association that has contributed more 
70.3 	than $5,000 in aggregate to independent expenditure political committees or funds during 
70.4 	the calendar year or has contributed more than $5,000 in aggregate to ballot question political 
70.5 	committees or funds during the calendar year must provide in writing to the recipient's 
70.6 	treasurer a statement that includes the name, address, and amount attributable to each person 
70.7 	that paid the association dues or fees, or made donations to the association that, in total, 
70.8 	aggregate more than $5,000 of the contribution from the association to the independent 
70.9 	expenditure or ballot question political committee or fund. The statement must also include 
70.10 	the total amount of the contribution attributable to persons not subject to itemization under 
70.11 	this section. The statement must be certified as true by an officer of the donor association.
70.12 	(c) To determine the amount of membership dues or fees, or donations made by a person 
70.13 	to an association and attributable to the association's contribution to the independent 
70.14 	expenditure or ballot question political committee or fund, the donor association must: 
70.15 	separately prorate the total independent expenditures and ballot question expenditures made 
70.16 	during the calendar year over all general treasury money received during the calendar year.
70.17 	(1) apply a pro rata calculation to all unrestricted dues, fees, and contributions received 
70.18 	by the donor association in the calendar year; or
70.19 	(2) as provided in paragraph (d), identify the specific individuals or associations whose 
70.20 	dues, fees, or contributions are included in the contribution to the independent expenditure 
70.21 	political committee or fund.
70.22 	(d) Dues, fees, or contributions from an individual or association must be identified in 
70.23 	a contribution to an independent expenditure political committee or fund under paragraph 
70.24 	(c), clause (2), if:
70.25 	(1) the individual or association has specifically authorized the donor association to use 
70.26 	the individual's or association's dues, fees, or contributions for this purpose; or
70.27 	(2) the individual's or association's dues, fees, or contributions to the donor association 
70.28 	are unrestricted and the donor association designates them as the source of the subject 
70.29 	contribution to the independent expenditure political committee or fund.
70.30 	(d) If the amount contributed to independent expenditure and ballot question political 
70.31 	committees or funds in a calendar year exceeds the amount of general treasury money 
70.32 	received by the association during that year:
71.1 	(1) the contributions must be attributed first to all receipts of general treasury money 
71.2 	received during the calendar year in which the contributions were made;
71.3 	(2) any amount of current-year contributions that exceeds the total of all receipts of 
71.4 	general treasury money during the current calendar year must be prorated over all general 
71.5 	treasury money received in the preceding calendar year; and
71.6 	(3) if the allocation made in clauses (1) and (2) is insufficient to cover the subject 
71.7 	independent expenditures and ballot question expenditures, no further allocation is required.
71.8 	(e) After a portion of the general treasury money received by an association from a 
71.9 	person has been designated as the source of a contribution to an independent expenditure 
71.10 	or ballot question political committee or fund, that portion of the association's general 
71.11 	treasury money received from that person may not be designated as the source of any other 
71.12 	contribution to an independent expenditure or ballot question political committee or fund, 
71.13 	or as the source of funds for a disbursement for electioneering communications made by 
71.14 	that association.

71.15 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2020, and applies to 
71.16 	expenditures and electioneering communications made on or after that date.

71.17 	Sec. 26. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 383B.041, is amended to read:
71.18 	383B.041 CAMPAIGN FINANCING, DISCLOSURE OF ECONOMIC 
71.19 	INTERESTS.
71.20 		Subdivision 1.Hennepin County candidates. Sections 383B.041 to 383B.058 apply 
71.21 	to the financing of campaigns for county elections in Hennepin County and for city elections 
71.22 	in home rule charter cities and statutory cities located wholly within Hennepin County, 
71.23 	having a population of 75,000 or more, and for school board elections in the Special School 
71.24 	District No. 1, Minneapolis, and to disclosure of economic interests by candidates and 
71.25 	elected public officials of those jurisdictions. The provisions of sections 211A.02 to 211A.07
71.26 	do not apply to the financing of campaigns for elections subject to the provisions of sections 
71.27 	383B.041 to 383B.058. Candidates for county commissioner, county attorney, and sheriff 
71.28 	of Hennepin County must file campaign disclosure forms with the filing officer for Hennepin 
71.29 	County. These candidates are subject to the provisions of chapter 211A.
71.30 		Subd. 2.Political subdivision candidates. Candidates for elected city, school board, 
71.31 	park commissioner, and other political subdivision offices within Hennepin County shall 
71.32 	file campaign disclosure forms with the filing officer for the political subdivision for which 
72.1 	the candidate is seeking office. These candidates are subject to the provisions of chapter 
72.2 	211A.
72.3 		Subd. 3.Political committees, political funds, and independent expenditures. (a) 
72.4 	The provisions of chapter 10A apply to political committees as defined in section 10A.01, 
72.5 	subdivision 27; political funds as defined in section 10A.01, subdivision 28; and independent 
72.6 	expenditures as defined in section 10A.01, subdivision 18, related to:
72.7 	(1) a campaign for the nomination or election of a candidate for:
72.8 	(i) a county office in Hennepin County;
72.9 	(ii) a city office in a home rule charter or statutory city located wholly within Hennepin 
72.10 	County with a population of 75,000 or more; or
72.11 	(iii) the school board in Special School District No. 1; and
72.12 	(2) a ballot question or proposition that may be voted on by:
72.13 	(i) all voters in Hennepin County;
72.14 	(ii) all voters of a home rule charter or statutory city located wholly within Hennepin 
72.15 	County and having a population of 75,000 or more; or
72.16 	(iii) all voters in Special School District No. 1.
72.17 	(b) The provisions of chapter 211A apply to a campaign for nomination or election for 
72.18 	an office in the following political subdivisions:
72.19 	(1) a home rule or statutory city located wholly within Hennepin County and having a 
72.20 	population of less than 75,000; and
72.21 	(2) a school district located wholly within Hennepin County other than Special School 
72.22 	District No. 1.
72.23 	(c) The provisions of chapter 211A apply to a ballot question or proposition that may 
72.24 	be voted on by:
72.25 	(1) all voters of a home rule or statutory city located wholly within Hennepin County 
72.26 	and having a population of less than 75,000; and
72.27 	(2) all voters of a school district located wholly within Hennepin County other than 
72.28 	Special School District No. 1.
72.29 		Subd. 4.Local ordinances and charters superseded. This section supersedes the 
72.30 	provisions of any ordinance or resolution of a political subdivision within Hennepin County 
72.31 	or any existing special law or home rule charter provision of a political subdivision within 
73.1 	Hennepin County requiring disclosure of information related to the financing of election 
73.2 	campaigns.
73.3 		Subd. 5.Economic interest disclosure; Special School District No. 1. Every candidate 
73.4 	for school board in Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis, must file an original statement 
73.5 	of economic interest with the school district within 14 days of the filing of an affidavit or 
73.6 	petition to appear on the ballot. An elected official in Special School District No. 1, 
73.7 	Minneapolis, must file the annual statement required in section 10A.09, subdivision 6, with 
73.8 	the school district for every year that the individual serves in office. An original and annual 
73.9 	statement must contain the information listed in section 10A.09, subdivision 5. The provisions 
73.10 	of section 10A.09, subdivisions 6a, 7, and 9, apply to statements required under this 
73.11 	subdivision.

73.12 	Sec. 27. REPEALER.
 73.13 	Minnesota Statutes 2018, sections 10A.15, subdivision 6; 383B.042; 383B.043; 383B.044; 
73.14 	383B.045; 383B.046; 383B.047; 383B.048; 383B.049; 383B.05; 383B.051; 383B.052; 
73.15 	383B.053; 383B.054; 383B.055; 383B.056; and 383B.057, are repealed.

73.16 	ARTICLE 3
73.17 	CENSUS AND REDISTRICTING

73.18 	Section 1. [2.032] REDISTRICTING COMMISSION.
73.19 		Subdivision 1.Commission membership; duties. In each year ending in one, a 
73.20 	redistricting commission is created to draw the boundaries of congressional and legislative 
73.21 	districts in accordance with the principles established in section 2.035. The commission 
73.22 	consists of 12 public members, to be appointed in the manner provided in subdivision 2, 
73.23 	and five retired judges of the appellate or district courts of this state who have not served 
73.24 	in a party-designated or party-endorsed position, such as legislator, to be appointed in the 
73.25 	manner provided in subdivision 3.
73.26 		Subd. 2.Public members; appointment. (a) The secretary of state shall supervise the 
73.27 	appointment of public members to the redistricting commission.
73.28 	(b) By January 15 of each year ending in zero, the secretary of state shall open a widely 
73.29 	publicized process that encourages eligible residents of this state to apply for membership 
73.30 	on the redistricting commission. The secretary of state shall solicit recommendations for 
73.31 	appointment to the redistricting commission from nongovernmental organizations with an 
73.32 	interest in the elections process.
74.1 	(c) The secretary of state shall provide an application form which must be designed to 
74.2 	show: (1) that an applicant meets the requirements of this subdivision; (2) that the application 
74.3 	must be submitted under oath affirming the truthfulness of its contents under penalty of 
74.4 	perjury; and (3) the applicant's demographic information, such as gender, race, ethnicity, 
74.5 	and age.
74.6 	(d) The following persons are not eligible to serve as a commissioner:
74.7 	(1) a person who is not eligible to vote;
74.8 	(2) a person under a contract with, or who serves as a consultant or staff to, or who has 
74.9 	an immediate family relationship with the governor, a member of the legislature, or a member 
74.10 	of congress; and
74.11 	(3) a person, or member of the person's immediate family, who has done any of the 
74.12 	following during the ten years immediately preceding the date of application:
74.13 	(i) has been appointed to, elected to, or a candidate for federal or state office;
74.14 	(ii) served as an officer, employee, or paid consultant of a political party or of the 
74.15 	campaign committee of a candidate for elective federal or state office;
74.16 	(iii) served as an elected or appointed member of a political party state central committee;
74.17 	(iv) registered as a federal, state, or local lobbyist or principal;
74.18 	(v) served as paid congressional or legislative staff; or
74.19 	(vi) violated the candidate contribution limits in section 10A.27.
74.20 	(e) For purposes of this subdivision, a member of a person's immediate family means a 
74.21 	sibling, spouse, parent or stepparent, child or stepchild, or in-law.
74.22 	(f) The secretary of state shall process applications as they are received and remove from 
74.23 	the applicant pool any person not eligible to serve as a commissioner and notify the person 
74.24 	of the reason they were removed. To be considered, applications must be received by 
74.25 	September 15 of the year ending in zero. An applicant must provide with the application 
74.26 	two positive references from community leaders or groups that promote civic engagement 
74.27 	with whom the applicant has worked and demonstrate that the applicant:
74.28 	(1) has experience with outreach to community groups to encourage civic participation 
74.29 	with an emphasis on historically disenfranchised groups; or
74.30 	(2) has an interest in or experience with government, elections, or civic life.
75.1 	(g) The secretary of state shall, based on a review of the applications, prepare a list of 
75.2 	120 applicant finalists who have demonstrated based on their application an ability to be 
75.3 	impartial and respect the diversity of this state's many communities. The list must, to the 
75.4 	extent practicable, reflect the gender, socioeconomic, age, racial, language, ethnic, and 
75.5 	geographic diversity of the state.
75.6 	(h) The list must include:
75.7 	(1) 40 applicant finalists identifying with the largest major political party in Minnesota;
75.8 	(2) 40 applicant finalists identifying with the second largest major political party in 
75.9 	Minnesota; and
75.10 	(3) 40 applicant finalists identifying their political party preference as belonging to a 
75.11 	party not described in clause (1) or (2) or to no party.
75.12 	For purposes of this paragraph, the two largest political parties are the parties whose 
75.13 	candidates received the greatest and second greatest number of votes at the most recent two 
75.14 	gubernatorial elections.
75.15 	(i) By December 15 of the year ending in zero, the secretary of state shall give the list 
75.16 	of finalists and their applications to the majority and minority leaders of the senate, the 
75.17 	speaker of the house, and the minority leader of the house of representatives. At an open 
75.18 	meeting, each of the four leaders shall remove 21 applicant finalists from the list: seven 
75.19 	applicant finalists identifying their political party preference with the majority party in the 
75.20 	house of representatives, seven applicant finalists identifying their political party preference 
75.21 	with the minority party in the house of representatives, and seven applicant finalists who 
75.22 	identified their political party preference with a party different than the majority party in 
75.23 	the house of representatives and the minority party of the house of representatives or with 
75.24 	no party. The leaders shall remove applicants one at a time in the order listed above, unless 
75.25 	the leaders agree to a different order.
75.26 	(j) By January 15 of each year ending in one, after the process of removing applicants 
75.27 	from the list is completed, each of the four leaders of the house of representatives and senate 
75.28 	shall give the list of finalists and their applications to the secretary of state. The secretary 
75.29 	of state shall randomly draw four names from the remaining applicants identifying their 
75.30 	political party preference as belonging to the majority party of the house of representatives, 
75.31 	four identifying their political party preference as belonging to the minority party of the 
75.32 	house of representatives, and four identifying their political party preference as belonging 
75.33 	to a different party than the majority party in the house of representatives and the minority 
76.1 	party of the house of representatives or to no party. These 12 persons shall serve as public 
76.2 	member commissioners.
76.3 	(k) The secretary of state's actions under this subdivision are not subject to chapter 14.
76.4 		Subd. 3.Retired judges; appointment. By January 15 of each year ending in one, the 
76.5 	four leaders of the house of representatives and senate shall each appoint one retired judge, 
76.6 	after consulting with each other in an effort to attain geographic balance in their 
76.7 	appointments. If the legislative leaders do not make the appointment by the deadline, the 
76.8 	chief justice of the supreme court shall make the appointment by January 22 of that year. 
76.9 	The director of the Legislative Coordinating Commission shall convene a meeting of the 
76.10 	four retired judges by January 29 of that year. The four retired judges shall then appoint the 
76.11 	fifth retired judge by a vote of at least three judges.
76.12 		Subd. 4.Code of conduct. (a) In performing their duties, the five retired judges serving 
76.13 	as commissioners shall abide by the Code of Judicial Conduct and are considered judicial 
76.14 	officers as defined in section 609.415.
76.15 	(b) Public members of the commission exercise the function of a public officer as defined 
76.16 	in section 609.415.
76.17 		Subd. 5.Removal; filling vacancies. (a) A commissioner can be removed with two-thirds 
76.18 	vote of the commission after notice and a hearing for reasons that would justify recall of a 
76.19 	state official under section 211C.02.
76.20 	(b) The commission must remove a commissioner who participates in a communication 
76.21 	that violates subdivision 8.
76.22 	(c) Except for vacancies filled by the chief justice, vacancies on the commission must 
76.23 	be filled by the appointing authority that made the initial appointment within 30 days after 
76.24 	the vacancy occurs. The appointing authority for public members is the secretary of state 
76.25 	and must be filled by drawing from the same partisan pool as the vacant position. If no 
76.26 	applicants in the pool are available for service, the secretary of state shall establish a new 
76.27 	pool, as provided in subdivision 2.
76.28 		Subd. 6.Open records. The commission is subject to chapter 13, except that a plan is 
76.29 	not public data until it has been submitted to the commission for its consideration.
76.30 		Subd. 7.Open meetings. The commission is subject to chapter 13D.
76.31 		Subd. 8.Certain communications prohibited. (a) Commissioners and commission 
76.32 	staff must not communicate with anyone except other commissioners or staff regarding the 
77.1 	content of a plan. The prohibition under this paragraph does not apply to open meetings of 
77.2 	the commission.
77.3 	(b) A commissioner may not direct, request, suggest, or recommend an interpretation 
77.4 	of a districting principle or a change to a district boundary to commission staff except during 
77.5 	open meetings of the commission. Commission staff shall report to the commission attempts 
77.6 	made to exert influence over the staff's role in the drafting of plans.
77.7 		Subd. 9.Lobbyist registration.  Action of the commission to submit a redistricting plan 
77.8 	to the legislature is an administrative action for purposes of section 10A.01, subdivision 
77.9 	21, requiring certain persons to register as a lobbyist.
77.10 		Subd. 10.Compensation and expenses. Commissioners must be compensated for their 
77.11 	commission activity as provided in section 15.059, subdivision 3.
77.12 		Subd. 11.Plans submitted to commission. The commission shall adopt a schedule for 
77.13 	interested persons to submit proposed plans and to respond to plans proposed by others. 
77.14 	The commission shall also adopt standards to govern the format of plans submitted. The 
77.15 	schedule and standards adopted by the commission under this subdivision are not rules. 
77.16 	Chapter 14 and section 14.386 do not apply to this section.
77.17 		Subd. 12.Public hearings. The commission shall hold at least one public hearing in 
77.18 	each congressional district before adopting the first congressional and legislative district 
77.19 	plans. The commission must ask for input on defining communities of interest for 
77.20 	consideration. The commission must publish on its website preliminary drafts of the 
77.21 	congressional and legislative district plans and each preliminary draft's accompanying 
77.22 	reports at least one week before a hearing required under this subdivision and allow the 
77.23 	public at least 30 days to submit comments after publication.
77.24 		Subd. 13.Deadlines. (a) By April 30 of each year ending in one, the commission shall 
77.25 	submit plans to the legislature for congressional and legislative districts. Each plan must be 
77.26 	accompanied by a report summarizing information and testimony received by the commission 
77.27 	in the course of the hearings and including any comments and conclusions the commissioners 
77.28 	deem appropriate on the information and testimony received at the hearings or otherwise 
77.29 	presented. Any plan submitted to the legislature must be approved by an affirmative vote 
77.30 	of at least 13 members of the commission.
77.31 	(b) The legislature intends that a bill be introduced to enact each plan and that the bill 
77.32 	be brought to a vote in either the senate or the house of representatives under a procedure 
77.33 	or rule permitting no amendments except those of a purely corrective nature, not less than 
77.34 	one week after the report of the commission was received and made available to the members 
78.1 	of the legislature. The legislature further intends that the bill be brought to a vote in the 
78.2 	second body within one week after final passage in the first body under a similar procedure 
78.3 	or rule. If either the senate or the house of representatives fails to approve a first plan 
78.4 	submitted by the commission, within one week after the failure the secretary of the senate 
78.5 	or the chief clerk of the house of representatives must notify the commission of the failure, 
78.6 	including any information that the senate or house of representatives may direct by resolution 
78.7 	regarding reasons why the plan was not approved. If the governor vetoes a plan, the veto 
78.8 	message serves as the notice.
78.9 	(c) The commission shall submit a second plan within two weeks after the commission 
78.10 	received the notice, unless by then the legislature has adjourned the regular session in the 
78.11 	year ending in one, in which case the second plan must be submitted to the legislature at 
78.12 	the opening of its regular session in the year ending in two. The legislature intends that a 
78.13 	second plan be considered by the legislature under the same procedure as provided for a 
78.14 	first plan under paragraph (b).
78.15 	(d) If the commission fails to submit a plan by either of these two deadlines, the legislature 
78.16 	may proceed to enact a plan in place of the missing plan without waiting for the commission 
78.17 	to submit a plan.
78.18 	(e) If the secretary of the senate or the chief clerk of the house of representatives notifies 
78.19 	the commission that a second plan has failed, or the governor vetoes a second plan, the 
78.20 	commission shall submit a third plan within two weeks after the commission received the 
78.21 	notice, unless by then the legislature has adjourned the regular session in the year ending 
78.22 	in one, in which case the third plan must be submitted to the legislature at the opening of 
78.23 	its regular session in the year ending in two. The third plan is subject to the same procedure 
78.24 	as provided for first and second plans under paragraph (b).
78.25 	Final approval of all plans, whether enacted by the legislature or as provided by order 
78.26 	of the court, must take place no later than the date provided in section 204B.14, subdivision 
78.27 	1a.
78.28 		Subd. 14.Data used. (a) To draw congressional and legislative districts, the commission 
78.29 	shall use, at a minimum, census data representing the entire population of Minnesota.
78.30 	(b) The commission shall use redistricting population data that includes data for persons 
78.31 	who are incarcerated reflecting their residence to be their last known residential address 
78.32 	before incarceration.
79.1 		Subd. 15.Expiration. (a) The commission expires when both congressional and 
79.2 	legislative redistricting plans have been enacted into law or adopted by order of the court 
79.3 	and any legal challenges to the plans have been resolved.
79.4 	(b) If use of a plan is enjoined after the commission expires, the court enjoining the plan 
79.5 	may direct that a new commission be appointed under this section to draft a remedial plan 
79.6 	for presentation to the legislature in accordance with deadlines established by order of the 
79.7 	court.

79.8 	Sec. 2. [2.035] DISTRICTING PRINCIPLES.
79.9 		Subdivision 1.Application. The principles in this section apply to congressional and 
79.10 	legislative districts.
79.11 		Subd. 2.Prohibited information. (a) No plan shall be drawn to purposefully favor or 
79.12 	disfavor a political party or candidate.
79.13 	(b) Information regarding registered voters, political affiliation, voting history, and 
79.14 	demographics shall be sequestered from the Redistricting Commission for the initial phase 
79.15 	of the process, but may be used to test for compliance with the goals in subdivision 3 and 
79.16 	reports described in section 2.036, subdivision 4.
79.17 		Subd. 3.Priority of principles. Redistricting commissioners appointed under section 
79.18 	2.032 shall adhere to the principles in subdivisions 4 to 12 when drawing congressional and 
79.19 	legislative districts. Where it is not possible to fully comply with the principles contained 
79.20 	below, a redistricting plan shall give priority to those principles in the order in which they 
79.21 	are listed, except to the extent that doing so would violate federal or state law.
79.22 		Subd. 4.Population equality. (a) Congressional districts must be as nearly equal in 
79.23 	population as practicable.
79.24 	(b) Legislative districts must be substantially equal in population. The population of a 
79.25 	legislative district must not deviate from the ideal by more than one percent.
79.26 		Subd. 5.Contiguity. The districts must be contiguous allowing for easy travel throughout 
79.27 	the district. Contiguity by water is sufficient if the water is not a serious obstacle to travel 
79.28 	within the district. Districts with areas that touch only at a point are not contiguous.
79.29 		Subd. 6.Minority representation. (a) Each district must be drawn in compliance with 
79.30 	all state and federal laws. A district must not be drawn with either the purpose or effect of 
79.31 	diluting, denying, or abridging the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account 
80.1 	of race, ethnicity, or membership in a language minority group, whether by themselves or 
80.2 	when voting in concert with other people.
80.3 	(b) Racial, ethnic, and language minorities must have an equal opportunity to participate 
80.4 	in the political process and elect candidates of their choice. Racial, ethnic, and language 
80.5 	minorities who constitute less than a voting-age majority of a district must have an 
80.6 	opportunity to substantially influence the outcome of an election.
80.7 		Subd. 7.Communities of interest. District boundaries shall recognize communities of 
80.8 	interest. A community of interest is a contiguous population sharing common social and 
80.9 	economic interests that should be included within a single district for purposes of the 
80.10 	community's effective and fair representation. Communities of interest include but are not 
80.11 	limited to geographic areas where there are clearly recognizable similarities of social, 
80.12 	cultural, ethnic, economic, or other interests. Examples of shared interests are those common 
80.13 	to an urban area, rural area, industrial area, or agricultural area and those common to areas 
80.14 	in which the people share similar living standards, have similar work opportunities, or have 
80.15 	access to the same media of communication relevant to the election process. Communities 
80.16 	of interest shall not include relationships with political parties, incumbents, or political 
80.17 	candidates.
80.18 		Subd. 8.Political subdivisions.  Counties, cities, and municipalities should be preserved 
80.19 	to the greatest extent possible and in compliance with the other principles to preserve rather 
80.20 	than divide them among multiple districts.
80.21 		Subd. 9.Incumbents. The residence of incumbents shall not be taken into consideration 
80.22 	in the development or approval of a proposed plan.
80.23 		Subd. 10.Compactness. Compactness must be measured by using one or more statistical 
80.24 	tests and must be compact.
80.25 		Subd. 11.Partisan symmetry and bias. A district must not be drawn in a manner that 
80.26 	unduly favors or disfavors any political party. The commission shall use judicial standards 
80.27 	and the best available scientific and statistical methods to assess whether a plan unduly 
80.28 	favors or disfavors a political party.
80.29 		Subd. 12.Numbering. (a) Congressional district numbers must begin with district one 
80.30 	in the southeast corner of the state and end with the district with the highest number in the 
80.31 	northeast corner of the state.
80.32 	(b) Legislative districts must be numbered in a regular series, beginning with house 
80.33 	district 1A in the northwest corner of the state and proceeding across the state from west to 
81.1 	east, north to south. In a county that includes more than one whole senate district, the districts 
81.2 	must be numbered consecutively.

81.3 	Sec. 3. [2.036] LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COMMISSION; 
81.4 	REDISTRICTING.
81.5 		Subdivision 1.Administrative support. The Legislative Coordinating Commission 
81.6 	shall provide administrative support to the Redistricting Commission.
81.7 		Subd. 2.Database. The geographic areas and population counts used in maps, tables, 
81.8 	and legal descriptions of congressional and legislative districts considered by the legislature 
81.9 	must be those used by the Geographic Information Services (GIS) Office of the Legislative 
81.10 	Coordinating Commission. The population counts shall be the block population counts 
81.11 	provided to the state under Public Law 94-171 after each decennial census, subject to 
81.12 	correction of any errors acknowledged by the United States Census Bureau. The GIS Office 
81.13 	must make the database available to the public on the GIS Office website.
81.14 		Subd. 3.Publication; consideration of plans. A redistricting plan must not be considered 
81.15 	for adoption by the senate or house of representatives until the redistricting plan's block 
81.16 	equivalency file has been submitted to the GIS Office in a form prescribed by the GIS 
81.17 	Office. The block equivalency file must show the district to which each census block has 
81.18 	been assigned. The GIS Office shall publish each plan submitted to it on the GIS Office 
81.19 	website.
81.20 		Subd. 4.Reports. Publication of a plan must include the following reports:
81.21 	(1) a population equality report, listing each district in the plan, its population as the 
81.22 	total number of persons, and deviations from the ideal as both a number of persons and as 
81.23 	a percentage of the population. The report must also show the populations of the largest 
81.24 	and smallest districts and the overall range of deviations of the districts;
81.25 	(2) a contiguity report, listing each district that is noncontiguous either because two 
81.26 	areas of a district do not touch or because they are linked by a point;
81.27 	(3) a minority voting-age population report, listing for each district the voting age 
81.28 	population of each racial or language minority and the total minority voting age population, 
81.29 	according to the categories recommended by the United States Department of Justice. The 
81.30 	report must also highlight each district with 30 percent or more total minority population;
81.31 	(4) a communities of interest report, if the chief author of a plan asserts that it preserves 
81.32 	a community of interest, maps of the plan must include a layer identifying the census blocks 
81.33 	within the community of interest. Publication of the plan must also include a report that 
82.1 	lays out the research and process used to identify the communities of interest and lists the 
82.2 	district or districts to which the community of interest has been assigned. The report must 
82.3 	include the number of communities of interest that are split and the number of times the 
82.4 	communities were split;
82.5 	(5) a political subdivision splits report, listing the split counties, cities, towns, unorganized 
82.6 	territories, and precincts, and the district to which each portion of a split subdivision is 
82.7 	assigned. The report must also show the number of subdivisions split and the number of 
82.8 	times a subdivision is split;
82.9 	(6) a plan components report, listing for each district the names and populations of the 
82.10 	counties within it and, where a county is split between or among districts, the names and 
82.11 	populations of the portion of the split county and each of the split county's whole or partial 
82.12 	cities, townships, unorganized territories, and precincts within each district.
82.13 	(7) a measures of compactness report, listing for each district at least the results of the 
82.14 	Reock, Polsby-Popper, Minimum Convex Hull, Population Polygon, Population Circle, 
82.15 	Ehrenburg, Length-Width, measures of compactness. The report must also state for all the 
82.16 	districts in a plan the sum of its perimeters and the mean of its other measurements. The 
82.17 	commission may consider other tests of compactness; and
82.18 	(8) a partisan bias report, listing multiple measures of partisan symmetry or other 
82.19 	measures of partisan bias as accepted in political science literature and the best available 
82.20 	scientific and statistical methods.

82.21 	Sec. 4. [204B.136] REDISTRICTING OF LOCAL ELECTION DISTRICTS.
82.22 		Subdivision 1.Redistricting plan standards; Redistricting Commission. The principles 
82.23 	provided in section 2.035 must be applied to the redistricting of:
82.24 	(1) county commissioner districts, county park districts, and soil and water conservation 
82.25 	supervisor districts in counties with a population greater than 100,000; and
82.26 	(2) wards in cities with a population greater than 75,000.
82.27 		Subd. 2.Population variance. The minimum population variance permitted for county 
82.28 	districts and wards may be up to 1.5 percent of the mean population for all districts or wards 
82.29 	in a redistricting plan adopted as provided in this section.
82.30 		Subd. 3.Procedure. Redistricting plans required by this section shall be prepared and 
82.31 	adopted by the charter commission, or where such a commission does not exist, by a 
82.32 	redistricting commission of no fewer than seven and no more than 15 members appointed 
83.1 	by the chief judge of the district court in which a majority of the population of the affected 
83.2 	jurisdiction reside. Members of a commission appointed under this subdivision must meet 
83.3 	the qualification standards for a public member of the Redistricting Commission as described 
83.4 	in section 2.032, subdivision 2, paragraph (d).

83.5 	Sec. 5. ACCESS TO MULTIUNIT FACILITIES BY UNITED STATES CENSUS 
83.6 	EMPLOYEES.
 83.7 		Subdivision 1.Access required. It is unlawful for a person, either directly or indirectly, 
83.8 	to deny access to an apartment house, dormitory, nursing home, manufactured home park, 
83.9 	other multiple unit facility used as a residence, or an area in which two or more single-family 
83.10 	dwellings are located on private roadways, to an employee of the United States Census who 
83.11 	displays a current, valid census credential and who is engaged in official census business. 
83.12 	An employee granted access under this section must be permitted to leave census materials 
83.13 	for residents at their doors, except that the manager of a nursing home may direct that the 
83.14 	materials be left at a central location within the facility. The materials must be left in an 
83.15 	orderly manner.
83.16 		Subd. 2.Limitations. This section does not prohibit:
83.17 	(1) denial of admittance into a particular apartment, room, manufactured home, or 
83.18 	personal residential unit;
83.19 	(2) in the case of a nursing home or a registered housing with services establishment 
83.20 	providing assisted living services meeting the requirements of Minnesota Statutes, section 
83.21 	144G.03, subdivision 2, denial of permission to visit certain persons for valid health reasons;
83.22 	(3) limiting visits to a reasonable number of census employees or reasonable hours;
83.23 	(4) requiring a prior appointment to gain access to the facility; or
83.24 	(5) denial of admittance to or expulsion of an individual employee from a multiple unit 
83.25 	dwelling for good cause.
83.26 		Subd. 3.Compliance with federal law. A person in compliance with United States 
83.27 	Code, title 13, section 223, and any guidance or rules adopted by the United States 
83.28 	Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, governing access to a facility described 
83.29 	in subdivision 1 is considered to be in compliance with the requirements of this section.
83.30 		Subd. 4.Applicability. This section is effective from January 1 to December 31 in any 
83.31 	year during which a decennial census is conducted under the authority of the United States 
83.32 	Constitution, article 1, section 2.

84.1 	Sec. 6. APPROPRIATIONS.
 84.2 		Subdivision 1.Legislative Coordinating Commission. $....... in fiscal year 2020 and 
84.3 	$....... in fiscal year 2021 are appropriated from the general fund to the Legislative 
84.4 	Coordinating Commission for costs associated with implementing this article. These are 
84.5 	onetime appropriations.
84.6 		Subd. 2.Secretary of State. $....... in fiscal year 2020 and $....... in fiscal year 2021 are 
84.7 	appropriated from the general fund to the secretary of state for costs associated with 
84.8 	implementing this article. These are onetime appropriations.

APPENDIX 

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: H1603-1 

10A.15 CONTRIBUTIONS.Subd. 6.Contributions from Hennepin County registered associations.  
In lieu of registration with the board, an association registered with the Hennepin County filing officer under sections 383B.041 to 383B.058 that makes contributions of more than $200 to a committee or fund in a calendar year may notify the recipient committee of its registration with Hennepin County, including its registration number, and instruct the recipient committee to include the notice when the recipient committee discloses receipt of the contribution. 

203B.081 LOCATIONS AND METHODS FOR ABSENTEE VOTING IN PERSON.Subd. 3.Alternative procedure. 
(a) The county auditor may make available a ballot counter and ballot box for use by the voters during the seven days before the election. If a ballot counter and ballot box is provided, a voter must be given the option either (1) to vote using the process provided in section 203B.08, subdivision 1, or (2) to vote in the manner provided in this subdivision. 

(b) If a voter chooses to vote in the manner provided in this subdivision, the voter must state the voter's name, address, and date of birth to the county auditor or municipal clerk. The voter shall sign a voter's certificate, which must include the voter's name, identification number, and the certification required by section 201.071, subdivision 1. The signature of an individual on the voter's certificate and the issuance of a ballot to the individual is evidence of the intent of the individual to vote at that election. 

(c) After signing the voter's certificate, the voter shall be issued a ballot and immediately retire to a voting station or other designated location in the polling place to mark the ballot. The ballot must not be taken from the polling place. If the voter spoils the ballot, the voter may return it to the election official in exchange for a new ballot. After completing the ballot, the voter shall deposit the ballot into the ballot box. 

(d) The election official must immediately record that the voter has voted in the manner provided in section 203B.121, subdivision 3. 

(e) The election duties required by this subdivision must be performed by the county auditor, municipal clerk, or a deputy of the auditor or clerk. 

383B.042 DEFINITIONS.Subdivision 1.For county campaign finance provisions. 
For the purposes of sections 383B.041 to 383B.058, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. The terms defined in chapter 200 also apply to sections 383B.041 to 383B.058, unless a different meaning is specified in this section. 

Subd. 2.Advance of credit. 
"Advance of credit" means any money owed for goods provided or services rendered. An advance of credit is an expenditure in the year in which the goods or services are used or consumed. "Advance of credit" does not mean "loan" as defined in subdivision 12. 

Subd. 3.Association. 
"Association" means a business, corporation, firm, partnership, committee, labor organization, club, or any other group of two or more persons, which includes more than an immediate family, acting in concert. 

Subd. 4.Business with which the individual is associated. 
"Business with which the individual is associated" means any association in connection with which the individual is compensated in excess of $50 except for actual and reasonable expenses in any month as a director, officer, owner, member, partner, employer or employee, or is a holder of securities worth $2,500 or more at fair market value. 

Subd. 5.Candidate. 
"Candidate" means an individual, not within the definition of candidate of section 10A.01, subdivision 10, who seeks nomination or election to any county office in Hennepin County, to any city office in any home rule charter city or statutory city located wholly within Hennepin County and having a population of 75,000 or more or to the school board of Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis. 

Subd. 6.City. 
"City" means any statutory or home rule charter city wholly within Hennepin County and having a population of 75,000 or more. 

Subd. 7.Contribution. 
"Contribution" means a transfer of funds or a donation in kind. 

"Contribution" includes any loan or advance of credit to a political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee, if that loan or advance of credit is (a) forgiven, or (b) paid by an entity other than the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee to which the loan or advance of credit is made. 

"Contribution" does not include services provided without compensation by an individual volunteering personal time on behalf of a candidate, political committee or political fund, or the publishing or broadcasting of news items or editorial comments by the news media. 

Subd. 8.Donation in kind. 
"Donation in kind" means anything of value other than money or negotiable instruments given by an individual or association to a political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election. 

Subd. 9.Election. 
"Election" means any election held to nominate or elect any candidate or to decide any question on a county ballot in Hennepin County or on the ballot of any home rule charter city or statutory city located wholly within Hennepin County and having a population of 75,000 or more, or on the ballot of Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis. 

Subd. 10.Expenditure. 
"Expenditure" means a purchase or payment of money or anything of value, or an advance of credit, made or incurred for the purpose of influencing the outcome of any election. "Expenditure" does not include services provided without compensation by an individual volunteering personal time on behalf of a candidate, political committee or political fund, or the publishing or broadcasting of news items or editorial comments by the news media. 

Subd. 11.Filing officer. 
"Filing officer" means the official responsible under law for administration of the election laws for Hennepin county. 

Subd. 12.Loan. 
"Loan" means an advance of money or anything of value made to a political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee. 

Subd. 13.Political committee. 
"Political committee" means any political party, association or person other than an individual that seeks as its major purpose to influence the outcome of any election for a city ballot issue or for any city office in the city of Bloomington; for a city or school district ballot issue and for any city or school district office in the city of Minneapolis, and in Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis; or for any countywide ballot issue or county office in Hennepin County; and not to influence the outcome of any other election. 

Subd. 14.Political fund. 
"Political fund" means any accumulation of dues or voluntary contributions by an association other than a political committee, which accumulation is collected or expended for the purpose of influencing the outcome of any election for a city ballot issue or for any city office in the city of Bloomington; for a city or school district ballot issue and for any city or school district office in the city of Minneapolis, and in Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis; or for any countywide ballot issue or county office in Hennepin County; and not for the purpose of influencing the outcome of any other election. 

Subd. 15.Population. 
"Population" means population as determined by the most recent federal census. 

Subd. 16.Principal campaign committee. 
"Principal campaign committee" means the single political committee designated by a candidate for election for any city office in the city of Bloomington; for any city office in the city of Minneapolis; for any school district office in Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis; or for any county office in Hennepin County. 

Subd. 17.Transfer of funds. 
"Transfer of funds" or "transfer" means money or negotiable instruments given by an individual or association to a political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee for the purpose of influencing the outcome of any election. 

383B.043 POLITICAL COMMITTEES; COUNTY AND CERTAIN OTHER ELECTIONS.Subdivision 1.Officers. 
Every political committee shall have a chair and a treasurer, who may be the same individual. The treasurer may designate deputy treasurers and shall be responsible for their accounts. The treasurer shall designate a single depository and account for all contributions received by the political committee. 

Subd. 2.Prohibitions; acceptance of certain contributions; commingling of funds. 
No contribution shall be accepted and no expenditure shall be made by or on behalf of a political committee while the office of treasurer is vacant. No anonymous contribution in excess of $20 shall be retained by the political committee but shall be forwarded to the state campaign finance and public disclosure board and deposited in the general fund. No funds of the political committee shall be commingled with the personal funds of any officer, member or associate of the committee. Any individual who violates a provision of this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

383B.044 POLITICAL FUNDS.Subdivision 1.When required. 
No association other than a political committee shall transfer more than $100 in aggregate in any one year to candidates or political committees or make any expenditure unless the transfer or expenditure is made from a political fund. 

Subd. 2.Treasurer; commingling of funds; anonymous contributions. 
Each association which has a political fund shall elect or appoint a treasurer of the political fund. No contributions to the political fund shall be accepted and no expenditures from the fund shall be made while the office of treasurer is vacant. The contents of the political fund shall not be commingled with any other funds or with the personal funds of any officer or member of the fund. No anonymous contribution in excess of $20 shall be retained by the political fund but shall be forwarded to the state campaign finance and public disclosure board and deposited in the general fund. 

Subd. 3.Use of dues and membership fees. 
Notwithstanding subdivision 1, the association may, if not prohibited by other law, deposit in its political fund money derived from dues or membership fees. The treasurer of the fund, in any report required by section 383B.049, shall disclose the name of any member whose dues, membership fees and contributions deposited in the political fund in any one year exceed $50 in the aggregate. 

Subd. 4.Penalty. 
Any person who knowingly violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

383B.045 PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
Every candidate who receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of $100 shall designate and cause to be formed a single political committee which shall be known as the candidate's principal campaign committee. The candidate shall make expenditures only through the candidate's principal campaign committee. The candidate may be the chair and treasurer of the principal campaign committee. 

383B.046 REGISTRATION OF POLITICAL COMMITTEES, POLITICAL FUNDS, AND PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES.Subdivision 1.Filing office; deadline. 
Every political committee, political fund and principal campaign committee as defined in section 383B.042, subdivisions 13, 14, and 16, shall register with the filing officer within 14 days after the date by which the committee or fund has received contributions or made expenditures in excess of $100. A political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee that is registered with the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board under section 10A.14 need not register under this section. 

Subd. 2.Statement required. 
A political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee registers by filing a statement of organization that includes: 

(a) the name and address of the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee; 

(b) the name and address of the chair, the treasurer, and any deputy treasurers; 

(c) the name and address of the depository used by the committee or fund; 

(d) the name and address of any supporting association of a political fund; and 

(e) a statement as to whether the committee is a principal campaign committee. 

The statement of organization shall be filed by the treasurer of the political committee, political fund or principal campaign committee. 

383B.047 ACCOUNTS WHICH MUST BE KEPT.Subdivision 1.Contributions; expenditures; transfers. 
The treasurer of any political committee, political fund or principal campaign committee shall keep an account of: 

(1) the sum of all contributions made to the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee; 

(2) the name and address of each source of a transfer or donation in kind, together with the date and amount; 

(3) each expenditure made by or on behalf of the committee or fund together with the date and amount; and 

(4) the name and address of each political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee to which transfers have been made, together with the date and amount. 

Subd. 2.Authorization of expenditures; receipts. 
Each expenditure by a political committee, political fund or principal campaign committee shall be authorized by the treasurer. The treasurer may authorize not more than $20 per week as petty cash for miscellaneous expenditures. The treasurer shall obtain a receipted bill stating the particulars for every expenditure made by or on behalf of the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee. 

383B.048 CAMPAIGN REPORTS.Subdivision 1.Committees required to report; deadlines. 
(a) The treasurer of any political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee required to register pursuant to section 383B.046 shall file campaign reports with the filing officer. In each year in which the name of the candidate is on the ballot, the report of the principal campaign committee shall be filed one week before a regular primary and a regular election. Political committees and political funds shall file campaign reports one week before a regular primary or regular election. 

(b) The treasurer of a principal campaign committee shall file reports one week before a special primary or other special election and 30 days after a special election. 

(c) The reports shall cover the period from the day after the end of the previous reporting period to one week before the filing date. 

(d) A campaign report shall be filed by all treasurers on January 31 of each year covering the period from the day after the end of the previous reporting period to December 31 of the preceding calendar year. 

Subd. 2.Content of reports. 
Each campaign report required under this section shall disclose: 

(1) the amount of liquid assets on hand at the beginning of the reporting period; 

(2) the name, address and employer, or occupation if self-employed, of each individual, committee or political fund that made transfers or donations in kind to the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee in an aggregate amount or value in excess of $100, together with the amount and date; 

(3) the sum of all contributions made to the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee; 

(4) each loan made or received by the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee within the year in aggregate in excess of $100, together with the name, address, occupation and the principal place of business, if any, of the lender and any endorser and the date and amount of the loan. A loan made to a political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee which is forgiven or is repaid by an entity other than that political committee or fund shall be reported as a contribution; 

(5) the sum of all receipts, including all contributions and loans, during the reporting period; 

(6) the name and address of each person to whom aggregate expenditures have been made by or on behalf of the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee within the year in excess of $100, the amount, date and purpose of each expenditure and the ballot question or the name and address of the candidate supported or opposed by the expenditure; 

(7) the sum of all expenditures made by the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee; 

(8) the amount and nature of any advance of credit incurred by the political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee continuously reported until paid or forgiven. An advance of credit incurred by a political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee which is forgiven or is paid by an entity other than that political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee shall be reported as a donation in kind; 

(9) the name and address of each political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee to which aggregate transfers in excess of $100 have been made within the year, together with the amount and date of each transfer; 

(10) the sum of all transfers made to political committees, political funds, or principal campaign committees; and 

(11) the sum of all disbursements not made to influence the outcome of an election. 

Subd. 3.Party sample ballots. 
Expenditures by a political party as defined in section 200.02, subdivision 7, or a substate unit of such a party, for the preparation, display and distribution of an official party sample ballot containing the names of three or more individuals whose names are to appear on the ballot shall not be considered contributions or expenditures on behalf of any candidate. 

Subd. 4.Termination reports. 
(a) A political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee created pursuant to section 383B.046 may dissolve upon filing of a termination report indicating that the committee or fund has settled all of its debts and disposed of all assets in excess of $100. The termination report shall include all information required in a periodic campaign report. 

(b) Political committees and political funds that were created for purposes of supporting or opposing candidates or ballot issues beyond the scope of those identified in section 383B.042, subdivision 5, 13, or 14, may terminate their registration with Hennepin County. Termination of a registration under this provision does not require termination of the political committee or political fund and does not require settlement of all debts and disposition of all assets in excess of $100. 

383B.049 EXPENDITURES BY INDIVIDUALS.Subdivision 1.Reports. 
Except as provided in subdivision 2, any individual who makes expenditures in an aggregate amount of $100 or more in any year, which expenditures are not required to be reported by any political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee as contributions to that political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee, shall file campaign reports in the form required by section 383B.048 with respect to those expenditures. 

Subd. 2.Exception; independent expenditures. 
An individual shall not be required to report any expenditure which is made without the cooperation or express or implied consent of any candidate, political committee, political fund, or agent of a candidate, political committee, or political fund, unless the expenditure expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or the approval or rejection of a clearly identified county or city ballot question at any election. 

383B.05 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO BE DISCLOSED.Subdivision 1.Earmarked contributions. 
Any individual, political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee that receives a contribution from any person or association in an aggregate in excess of $50 with the express or implied condition that the contribution or any part of it be directed to a particular candidate shall disclose to the ultimate recipient and in any report required by section 383B.048, the original source of the contribution, the fact that it was earmarked and the candidate to whom it is directed. The ultimate recipient of any earmarked contribution shall also disclose the original source and the individual, political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee through which it was directed. Any individual, political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee that knowingly accepts earmarked funds and fails to make the disclosure required by this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Subd. 2.Bills when rendered and paid. 
Every person who has a bill, charge or claim against any political committee, political fund, or principal campaign committee for any expenditure shall render in writing to the treasurer of the committee or fund the bill, charge or claim within 60 days after the material or service is provided. Failure to present the bill, charge or claim as required by this subdivision is a petty misdemeanor. 

383B.051 CIRCUMVENTION PROHIBITED.
Any person who attempts to circumvent disclosure of the source or amount of contributions or expenditures by redirecting funds through or contributing funds on behalf of another person is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

383B.052 ECONOMIC REPRISALS PROHIBITED.
No individual or association shall engage in economic reprisals or threaten loss of employment or physical coercion against any individual or association because of the political contributions or political activity of that individual or association. This subdivision does not apply to compensation for employment or loss of employment when the political affiliation or viewpoint of the employee is a bona fide occupational qualification of the employment. Any individual or association that violates this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

383B.053 ECONOMIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE.Subdivision 1.Officials required to file; deadlines. 
Every candidate for county office, every elected official of Hennepin County, every candidate for office and every elected official of a home rule charter city or statutory city located wholly within Hennepin County and having a population of 75,000 or more, and every candidate for school board and every elected official in Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis shall file statements of economic interest as required by this section with the filing officer. A candidate shall file an original statement within 14 days of the filing of an affidavit or petition to appear on the ballot. Every individual required to file a statement shall file a supplementary statement on April 15 of each year in which the individual remains a candidate or elected official. An official required to file a statement of economic interest under section 10A.09 is not required to comply with this section. 

Subd. 2.Content of statement. 
An individual required to file a statement of economic interest shall disclose: 

(1) the individual's name, address, occupation and principal place of business; 

(2) the name of each business with which the individual is associated and the nature of that association; 

(3) a listing of all real property within the state, excluding homestead property, in which the individual holds: (i) a fee simple interest, a mortgage, a contract for deed as buyer or seller, or an option to buy, whether direct or indirect, and which interest has a market value in excess of $2,500 as shown on the real estate tax statement for the property or (ii) an option to buy, which property has a fair market value of $50,000 or more; 

(4) a listing of all real property within the state in which a partnership of which the individual is a member holds: (i) a fee simple interest, a mortgage, a contract for deed as buyer or seller, or an option to buy, whether direct or indirect, if the individual's share of the partnership interest has a market value in excess of $2,500 as shown on the real estate tax statement for the property or (ii) an option to buy, which property has a fair market value of $50,000 or more; and 

(5) in supplementary statements only, the amount of each honorarium in excess of $50 received since the last statement, together with the name and address of the source. 

Any listing under clause (3) or (4) shall indicate the street address and the municipality or the section, township range and approximate acreage, whichever applies, and the county wherein the property is located. 

383B.054 REPORTS AND STATEMENTS; REQUIREMENTS.Subdivision 1.Certification. 
A report or statement required by sections 383B.046 to 383B.054 shall be signed and certified as true by the individual required to file the report. Any individual who signs and certifies to be true a report or statement which the individual knows contains false information or who knowingly omits required information is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. 

Subd. 2.Transmittal, retention, public inspection. 
The filing officer shall promptly transmit to the appropriate city clerk a copy of each statement and report filed by a candidate for city office, a political committee or fund that discloses contributions or expenditures to influence a city or an elected city official. The filing officer and each city clerk shall retain the statements, reports and copies and make them available for public inspection for a period of five years after the date of receipt by the filing officer. 

Subd. 3.Changes and corrections. 
Any material changes in information previously submitted and any corrections to a report or statement shall be reported in writing to the filing officer within ten days following the date of the event prompting the change or the date upon which the individual filing became aware of the inaccuracy. The change or correction shall identify the form and the paragraph containing the information to be changed or corrected. Any individual who willfully fails to report a material change or correction is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Subd. 4.Record keeping. 
Each individual required to file any report or statement or to keep any account pursuant to sections 383B.046 to 383B.054 shall maintain and preserve for four years the records, including any vouchers, canceled checks, bills, invoices, worksheets and receipts, that will provide in sufficient detail the necessary information from which the accounts and the filed reports and statements may be verified, explained, clarified and checked for accuracy and completeness. 

Subd. 5.Penalties. 
The filing officer shall notify by certified mail or personal service any individual who fails to file a statement or report required by sections 383B.046 to 383B.054. Except for any campaign report of a principal campaign committee due before an election, if an individual fails to file any statement or report within seven days after receiving a notice, the filing officer may impose a late filing fee of $5 per day, not to exceed $100, commencing on the eighth day after receiving notice. If a treasurer of a principal campaign committee fails to file a campaign report due before an election within three days of the date due, regardless of whether the treasurer has received any notice, the filing officer may impose a late filing fee of $50 per day, not to exceed $500, commencing on the fourth day after the date the statement was due. The filing officer shall further notify by certified mail or personal service any individual who fails to file any statement or report within 21 days after receiving a first notice that the individual may be subject to a criminal penalty for failure to file the statement or report. An individual who knowingly fails to file the statement or report within seven days after receiving a second notice from the filing officer is guilty of a misdemeanor. A filing officer who violates any provision of this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Subd. 6.Recovery of late filing fees. 
A filing officer may bring an action in the Fourth Judicial District Court to recover any late filing fee imposed pursuant to subdivision 5. All money recovered shall be deposited in the general fund of Hennepin County. 

Subd. 7.Reports of violations. 
If any individual other than a county official or candidate for county office fails to file the required statement or report within seven days after a second notice as provided in subdivision 5, the filing officer shall inform the Hennepin County attorney that a second notice was sent and that the individual failed to file the required statement or report. If a county official or candidate fails to file a report or statement after a second notice as provided in subdivision 5, the filing officer shall notify the attorney general. 

Subd. 8.Report by subordinate. 
(a) Any deputy, clerk, employee or other subordinate of a filing officer who has knowledge or reason to believe that a violation of sections 383B.041 to 383B.057 has occurred, shall immediately transmit a report of that knowledge or belief to that filing officer, together with any evidence of the violation coming into the subordinate's possession. 

(b) Any filing officer who has knowledge or reason to believe that a violation of sections 383B.041 to 383B.058 has occurred shall immediately transmit a report of that knowledge or belief to the county attorney of the county in which the violation is thought to have occurred, together with any evidence of the violation coming into the filing officer's possession. 

(c) The filing officer shall also immediately send a copy of the report to the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board. 

(d) A violation of this subdivision is a misdemeanor. 

383B.055 DUTIES OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE BOARD; FILING OFFICERS.Subdivision 1.Board: advisory opinions, disclosure exemptions. 
The state Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board shall: 

(1) issue and publish advisory opinions concerning the requirements of sections 383B.041 to 383B.057 upon application in writing by the county filing officer of Hennepin County or any individual or association who wishes to use the opinion to guide the applicant's own conduct; and 

(2) exempt any individual or association required to disclose information under sections 383B.046 to 383B.05 from any requirement of those sections in the same manner as it exempts any individual or association from disclosure requirements under chapter 10A. An individual or association exempted from the disclosure provisions of chapter 10A, shall also be exempt from the disclosure provisions of sections 383B.046 to 383B.05. 

Subd. 2.Filing officer: develop, distribute needed forms. 
The county filing officer of Hennepin County shall develop forms for all statements and reports required to be filed under sections 383B.041 to 383B.054. The filing officer shall furnish sufficient copies of the forms to all officers with whom candidates file affidavits or applications of candidacy and nominating petitions. 

Subd. 3.Candidacy filing officer: forms to candidates; penalty. 
An officer who receives affidavits or applications of candidacy or nominating petitions shall mail or deliver a copy of each form required to be filed by a candidate to each candidate who files an affidavit, application or petition with that officer or for whom a write-in vote is cast on the ballot of that jurisdiction. Any officer who fails to carry out the duties imposed by this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

383B.056 PENALTIES.
Except as expressly provided to the contrary in sections 383B.041 to 383B.055, a violation of sections 383B.041 to 383B.055 is not a crime. 

383B.057 PROSECUTION OF VIOLATIONS.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, a violation of a criminal provision of sections 383B.041 to 383B.056 shall be prosecuted by the Hennepin County attorney in the Fourth Judicial District Court. A violation by a county official or candidate shall be prosecuted by the attorney general in the district court of Ramsey County.