Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1937

E Relating to corrections; extending the task force on public entity purchases
from corrections industries established by the commissioners of administration
and corrections; modifying annual department of corrections performance report
requirements, requiring inclusion of a recidivism analysis; authorizing the
commissioner of corrections to inspect and certify programs for juvenile
facilities licensed by the commissioner of human services based on certain
certification standards; removing obsolete language relating to the secure
treatment unit operated by Regions (St. Paul-Ramsey) hospital under a certain
inmates health care provision, granting the office of health facility complaints
jurisdiction to investigate inmate health care complaints; removing juveniles
from a certain provision providing for residential chemical dependency treatment
programs operated by the commissioner of corrections, requiring the
commissioners of corrections and human services to establish alternative
equivalent standards through an interagency agreement for chemical dependency
treatment programs upon determination of the impossibility of applying
established standards for community based programs to correctional facilities;
requiring the commissioner of corrections to establish a health care peer review
committee to review and evaluate information relating to the quality of care and
treatment provided to offenders and to contract with the commissioner of human
services to conduct background studies of individuals providing services in
secure and nonsecure juvenile residential and detention facilities,
disqualification to disqualify the individual from positions allowing direct
contact or access to residents receiving services in programs licensed by the
departments of health and human services; deleting an obsolete provision
requiring the commissioner of corrections to annually report to the legislature
on the status of the community based sex offender program evaluation project;
updating and clarifying certain language relating to the correctional facility
mental health unit at the Oak Park Heights facility and the transfer or
commitment of mentally ill inmates to the unit by licensed mental health
professionals; clarifying the responsibility for payment of the costs of
alternative residential programs for juveniles; eliminating a certain parole
agents residency requirement and a requirement for the commissioner to annually
publish a list of institutional custody levels; broadening a certain provision
authorizing the transfer of inmates to the federal government; expanding the
authority of predatory offender corrections agents to request risk level reviews
by end of confinement review committees based on certain evidence of need;
requiring predatory sex offenders to demonstrate full compliance with supervised
release conditions, completion of required post release treatment programming
and registration requirements and prohibiting conviction of certain offenses
after the assignment of the original risk level for risk level reduction
purposes, offenders returned to prison as release violators not to possess the
right to subsequent risk reassessment without substantial evidence of increased
risk to the public; expanding the definition of local correctional fees for
imposition purposes to post-prison supervision or other forms of release or
supervision or other services provided to probationers or parolees under the
interstate compact for supervision of parolees or probationers; authorizing the
commissioner to require department incarcerated deaths to be reviewed by
independent forensic pathologists; expanding the crimes of criminal sexual
conduct in the third and fourth degrees to employees, contract personnel or
volunteers of state, county, city or privately operated adult or juvenile
correctional systems engaging in sexual activities with offenders, consent not
to be a defense; requiring the court to order certain repeat sex offenders to
undergo assessment by the Minnesota security hospital, specifying certain
assessment requirements, requiring forwarding of completed assessments to the
court and the commissioner, requiring court consideration of the assessments in
sentencing the offenders and in preliminary determinations relating to the
appropriateness of civil commitment; authorizing the maintenance of sex offender
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) test results in department of corrections
inmate medical records; repealing certain provisions relating to the authority
of the commissioner to contract for certain food products and the establishment
of the correctional facility at Sauk Centre (mk, ja)