Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2563

"Minnesota Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002"; providing for the punishment of persons
committing terrorist acts in the state and for the ability of law enforcement to
train, prepare for, investigate and respond to acts of terrorism; expanding the
definition of security information under general nonpublic government data to
include the act of terrorism; authorizing closed meetings to receive security
briefings and reports and to discuss issues relating to security systems,
emergency response procedures and security deficiencies in public infrastructure
and facilities; requiring and providing for the monitoring of foreign students
at public and private post-secondary institutions, requiring institutions to
submit reports to the attorney general at the end of each term on the status of
foreign students, specifying certain report content requirements, requiring
institution notices to the attorney general of foreign student enrollment
changes; requiring and providing for the commissioner of health to establish a
registry of individuals and entities possessing or maintaining biological
agents, defining biological agent, specifying certain individual and entity
registration requirements, classifying data in the registry and specifying
conditions for release of the data by the commissioner, requiring the
commissioner to cooperate with the federal centers for disease control and
prevention and state and federal law enforcement agencies in investigations
involving the release, theft or loss of biological agents, to impose certain
penalties for willful violation of the requirements and to adopt certain
implementation rules; providing for the expiration date of identification cards
and drivers licenses issued to persons lawfully in the country as a result of
certain documents issued by the immigration and naturalization service (INS);
requiring the commissioner of public safety to prescribe rules governing the
qualifications of hazardous materials drivers and tests required to obtain a
hazardous materials drivers license endorsement, requiring criminal and drivers
license records checks for issuance or renewal purposes and annual validity
verification with the national drivers register or the department of public
safety by employers or contractors, requiring and providing for the cancellation
of hazardous materials endorsements for certain offenses and notice by the court
administrator of convictions to the department and the employer; increasing the
emergency telephone (911) service fee and the bonding authority of the
metropolitan council for the regionwide first phase system; increasing the
penalties for falsely reporting a crime and for providing a false or fictitious
name to peace officers or court officials; creating the crimes of trespass at
public works facilities, power plants or telecommunications facilities, of
placing explosives or incendiary devices in certain places, of use of weapons or
hoax weapons of mass destruction and of acts of terrorism, penalties, including
the crime of acts of terrorism under the definition of crime of violence;
increasing the penalties for the crime of terroristic threats; expanding the
wiretap authority of law enforcement officers and modifying the authority of and
requirements for wire or electronic communication service providers to disclose
subscriber or customer records; appropriating money to the commissioner of
public safety to study the feasibility and cost of requiring tagging of
explosives, for grants to local law enforcement agencies for the costs of extra
personnel and to the national guard for infrastructure security, for the
purchase of biohazard, chemical detection and measurement and decontamination
equipment, for hazardous materials (HAZMAT) response teams in Rochester, Duluth,
Moorhead and St. Cloud, for terrorism response training and for increased
security of the capitol complex; appropriating money to the commissioner and
authorizing the issuance of state bonds to predesign the Camp Ripley joint
military law enforcement anti-terrorism training facility; appropriating money
to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) and authorizing the issuance of
state bonds to design, acquire, construct, furnish and equip a coordinated radio
communication system (ra)