1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to fair campaign practices; expanding election-related bribery and 
1.3 	solicitation prohibitions; providing penalties; authorizing civil enforcement;
1.4 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 211B.13.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 211B.13, is amended to read:
1.7 	211B.13 BRIBERY, TREATING, AND SOLICITATION.
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Bribery, advancing money, and treating prohibited. (a) A person who
1.9 	is guilty of a felony if the person willfully, directly or indirectly, advances, pays, gives, 
1.10 	promises, provides a chance to win, or lends any money, food, liquor, clothing, entertainment, 
1.11 	or other thing of monetary value, or who offers, promises, or endeavors to obtain any money, 
1.12 	position, appointment, employment, or other valuable consideration, to or for a person, in 
1.13 	order to induce:
1.14 	(1) a voter to refrain from voting, or to vote in a particular way, at an election, is guilty 
1.15 	of a felony;
1.16 	(2)  an individual to register to vote; or
1.17 	(3) a registered or eligible voter to sign a petition that is directly related to an election 
1.18 	during the period beginning on the first day of the absentee voting period for that election 
1.19 	and ending on election day.
1.20 	(b) This section does not prevent a candidate from stating publicly preference for or 
1.21 	support of another candidate to be voted for at the same primary or election. Refreshments 
2.1 	of food or nonalcoholic beverages having a value up to $5 consumed on the premises at a 
2.2 	private gathering or public meeting are not prohibited under this section.
2.3 		Subd. 2.Certain solicitations prohibited. A person may not knowingly solicit, receive, 
2.4 	or accept any money, property, or other thing of monetary value, or a promise or, pledge, 
2.5 	or opportunity to win any of these that is a disbursement prohibited by this section or section 
2.6 	211B.15.
2.7 		Subd. 3.Civil enforcement. In addition to other remedies, the attorney general or county 
2.8 	attorney may enforce this section pursuant to section 8.31.

2.9 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2025, and applies to crimes 
2.10 	committed on or after that date.