Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF0802

3E Relating to public safety

ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS

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

ARTICLE 2 - COURTS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

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

ARTICLE 3 -
PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS

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