HF 2590

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to corrections; requiring that certain 
  1.3             offenders receive notice of eligibility to vote; 
  1.4             proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
  1.5             chapters 244; 609. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [244.0515] [NOTICE OF RESTORATION OF CIVIL 
  1.8   RIGHTS AND ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE.] 
  1.9      (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), upon completion of 
  1.10  an offender's supervised release term under section 244.05, or 
  1.11  upon completion of a stay of imposition or execution of sentence 
  1.12  under section 609.135, the offender's corrections agent must 
  1.13  give the person a notice in writing that the person is restored 
  1.14  to civil rights for purposes of eligibility to vote. 
  1.15     (b) If an offender's conditional release term under section 
  1.16  609.108, subdivision 6, or 609.109, subdivision 7, results in an 
  1.17  offender serving a longer conditional release term than 
  1.18  supervised release term, the offender's corrections agent must 
  1.19  give the person the notice described in paragraph (a) upon 
  1.20  completion of the conditional release term. 
  1.21     (c) For the purposes of this section, a "corrections agent" 
  1.22  means a county probation officer appointed under section 244.19, 
  1.23  a state parole or probation agent employed by the Department of 
  1.24  Corrections, or a probation officer in a community corrections 
  1.25  act county. 
  2.1      Sec. 2.  [609.1655] [NOTICE OF RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
  2.2   AND ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE.] 
  2.3      (a) When an offender who has been convicted of a felony 
  2.4   offense is released from incarceration in a local correctional 
  2.5   facility, the chief executive officer of the facility must give 
  2.6   the offender a notice in writing that the person is restored to 
  2.7   civil rights for purposes of eligibility to vote. 
  2.8      (b) When an offender who has been committed to the custody 
  2.9   of the commissioner of corrections is released from a state 
  2.10  correctional facility, the commissioner of corrections must 
  2.11  notify the offender that the person is restored to civil rights 
  2.12  for purposes of eligibility to vote.