1st Engrossment - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 04/02/2024 12:43pm
A bill for an act
relating to public safety; prohibiting the Peace Officer Standards and Training
Board from certifying a continuing education course that includes training on
"excited delirium" or similar terms; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 626.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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For the purposes of this chapter, "excited delirium" means a
description of a person's state of agitation, excitability, paranoia, extreme aggression, physical
violence, and apparent immunity to pain that is not listed in the most current version of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or for which there is insufficient
scientific evidence or diagnostic criteria to be recognized as a medical condition. Excited
delirium includes excited delirium syndrome, hyperactive delirium, agitated delirium,
exhaustive mania, and similar terms.
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(a) The board
may not certify a continuing education course that includes training on the detection or use
of the term excited delirium.
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(b) The board may not grant continuing education credit to a peace officer for a course
that includes training on the detection or use of the term excited delirium.
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(c) The board may not reimburse a law enforcement agency or a peace officer for a
course that includes training on the detection or use of the term excited delirium.
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A law enforcement agency may not provide, directly or
through a third party, to a peace officer any course that includes training on the detection
or use of excited delirium.
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