HF 897

1st Engrossment - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026) Posted on 03/17/2025 04:15pm

A bill for an act
relating to public safety; providing protection to children and vulnerable adults
from exposure to fentanyl; imposing criminal penalties for violation; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 152.137, subdivisions 1, 2.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 152.137, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Definitions.

(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the
meanings given.

(b) "Chemical substance" means a substance intended to be used as a precursor in the
manufacture of methamphetamine or any other chemical intended to be used in the
manufacture of methamphetamine.

(c) "Child" means any person under the age of 18 years.

(d) "Methamphetamine paraphernalia" means all equipment, products, and materials of
any kind that are used, intended for use, or designed for use in manufacturing, injecting,
ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing methamphetamine into the human body.

(e) "Methamphetamine waste products" means substances, chemicals, or items of any
kind used in the manufacture of methamphetamine or any part of the manufacturing process,
or the by-products or degradates of manufacturing methamphetamine.

(f) "Vulnerable adult" has the meaning given in section 609.232, subdivision 11.

new text begin (g) "Fentanyl" has the meaning given in section 152.01, subdivision 25.
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Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 152.137, subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Prohibited conduct.

(a) No person may knowingly engage in any of the
following activities in the presence of a child or vulnerable adult; in the residence of a child
or a vulnerable adult; in a building, structure, conveyance, or outdoor location where a child
or vulnerable adult might reasonably be expected to be present; in a room offered to the
public for overnight accommodation; or in any multiple unit residential building:

(1) manufacturing or attempting to manufacture methamphetamine;

(2) storing any chemical substance;

(3) storing any methamphetamine waste products; or

(4) storing any methamphetamine paraphernalia.

(b) No person may knowingly cause or permit a child or vulnerable adult to inhale, be
exposed to, have contact with, or ingest methamphetamine, a chemical substance, or
methamphetamine paraphernalia.

new text begin (c) No person may knowingly cause or permit a child or vulnerable adult to inhale, be
exposed to, have contact with, or ingest fentanyl.
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