HF 1347

1st Engrossment - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to crime; creating a pilot program in Dakota 
  1.3             county to allow courts to impose community custody as 
  1.4             an alternative to local incarceration. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [COMMUNITY CUSTODY IN LIEU OF MANDATORY 
  1.7   INCARCERATION.] 
  1.8      Subdivision 1.  [PILOT PROJECT; DAKOTA COUNTY.] A pilot 
  1.9   project is created in Dakota county for the period August 1, 
  1.10  1999, to August 1, 2003, to allow courts to impose community 
  1.11  custody in lieu of incarceration, as provided in subdivision 2. 
  1.12     Subd. 2.  [COMMUNITY CUSTODY.] Whenever a court in Dakota 
  1.13  county determines that an offender who has been convicted for an 
  1.14  offense which requires a mandatory minimum period of 
  1.15  incarceration in a local correctional facility would not pose a 
  1.16  public safety risk if sentenced to highly intensive surveillance 
  1.17  and programming intervention, the court may sentence the 
  1.18  offender to serve the mandatory minimum period of incarceration 
  1.19  in community custody.  Any community custody sentence must 
  1.20  include the following components:  daily surveillance, 
  1.21  electronic monitoring, urinalysis, a quick response to 
  1.22  violations, mandatory school or employment attendance, 
  1.23  correctional programming, and the use of community mentors. 
  1.24     Subd. 3.  [EXCEPTION.] This section does not apply to 
  1.25  violations of Minnesota Statutes, section 609.2243, subdivision 
  2.1   2. 
  2.2      Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.3      Section 1 is effective August 1, 1999, and applies to 
  2.4   crimes committed on or after that date.