HF 4244

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 02/26/2024 02:21pm

A bill for an act
relating to corrections; redistributing reallocation of earned incentive release
savings funds; amending Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 244.50,
subdivision 4.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 244.50, subdivision 4, is amended
to read:

Subd. 4.

Distributing reallocation funds.

The commissioner must distribute funds as
follows:

(1) deleted text begin 25 deleted text end new text begin 50 new text end percent must be transferred to the Office of Justice Programs in the Department
of Public Safety for crime victim services;

(2) 25 percent must be transferred to the Community Corrections Act subsidy
appropriation and to the Department of Corrections for supervised release and intensive
supervision services, based upon a three-year average of the release jurisdiction of supervised
releasees and intensive supervised releasees across the state; new text begin and
new text end

(3) 25 percent must be transferred to the Department of Corrections for:

(i) grants to develop and invest in community-based services that support the identified
needs of correctionally involved individuals or individuals at risk of becoming involved in
the criminal justice system; and

(ii) sustaining the operation of evidence-based programming in state and local correctional
facilities deleted text begin ; and deleted text end new text begin .
new text end

deleted text begin (4) 25 percent must be transferred to the general fund.
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