1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to corrections; requiring commissioner to fund certain county sentence 
1.3 	to service programs.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. SENTENCE TO SERVICE.
 1.6 	(a) The commissioner of corrections must allow a county that operated a sentence 
1.7 	to service crew under a contract with the Department of Corrections in the 12 months 
1.8 	prior to July 1, 2010, to convert the county's state-operated sentence to service crews to 
1.9 	county-operated crews funded by pass-through grants from the department.
1.10 	(b) A county eligible to convert the county's sentence to service crews under 
1.11 	paragraph (a) that canceled the county's contract with the state after July 1, 2010, is 
1.12 	eligible to receive grant funding from the department for the number of state-operated 
1.13 	crews that the county funded in the month prior to canceling the contract with the state.