SF 1029

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

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to crime prevention; appropriating money to 
  1.3             develop plans for the construction of regional adult 
  1.4             detention facilities. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [REGIONAL ADULT DETENTION FACILITY CONSTRUCTION 
  1.7   PLANNING GRANTS.] 
  1.8      Subdivision 1.  [GRANT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED; CONTENTS OF 
  1.9   REQUIRED PLANS.] The supreme court, through the state court 
  1.10  administrator, shall make grants under this section to judicial 
  1.11  districts, or groups of two or more counties within judicial 
  1.12  districts, to plan the construction of regional adult detention 
  1.13  facilities that will serve each district.  Grant recipients 
  1.14  shall use the money to develop a plan that, at a minimum, must 
  1.15  include the following items related to the facility, if known: 
  1.16  its location, its inmate capacity, any services to be offered to 
  1.17  inmates, its construction costs, its per diem and operating 
  1.18  costs, and its number of beds, if any, that will be available 
  1.19  for use by counties or other entities outside the judicial 
  1.20  district.  If the amount of the grant permits, the recipient 
  1.21  shall conduct a predesign study for the proposed facility. 
  1.22     Subd. 2.  [GRANT DISTRIBUTION.] The state court 
  1.23  administrator shall distribute grants equitably across the state 
  1.24  so that the planning needs of each judicial district for 
  1.25  construction of regional adult detention facilities are 
  2.1   addressed.  The state court administrator shall award grants and 
  2.2   determine the amount of grants in a manner that attempts to 
  2.3   bring judicial districts across the state to a uniform level of 
  2.4   planning for the construction of regional adult detention 
  2.5   facilities.  To further this goal, if the state court 
  2.6   administrator determines that the planning contemplated by this 
  2.7   section has already been conducted for a judicial district, the 
  2.8   administrator shall increase the amount of grants to recipients 
  2.9   from districts not as far advanced in the planning process to 
  2.10  bring these districts up to the level of the districts that have 
  2.11  conducted planning. 
  2.12     Subd. 3.  [REPORT REQUIRED.] (a) By January 15, 2000, the 
  2.13  state court administrator shall report to the chairs and ranking 
  2.14  minority members of the senate and house committees or divisions 
  2.15  having jurisdiction over criminal justice funding on grants made 
  2.16  pursuant to this section. 
  2.17     (b) By January 15, 2000, recipients of grants shall forward 
  2.18  the plans funded by the grant to the chairs and ranking minority 
  2.19  members of the senate and house committees or divisions having 
  2.20  jurisdiction over criminal justice funding. 
  2.21     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.22     $1,000,000 is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 
  2.23  30, 2000, from the general fund to the supreme court for grants 
  2.24  under section 1.