1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to crimes; modifying where sex offenders may
1.3 	reside upon release from confinement; amending
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 244.052, subdivision
1.5 	4a.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 244.052,
1.8 	subdivision 4a, is amended to read:
1.9 		Subd. 4a.level iii predatory offenders; location of
1.10 	residence.  (a) When Before an offender assigned to risk level
1.11 	I, II, or III is may be released from confinement or a
1.12 	residential facility to reside in the community or changes
1.13 	residence may be permitted to change residences while on
1.14 	supervised or conditional release, the agency responsible for
1.15 	the offender's supervision shall take into consideration the
1.16 	proximity of the offender's residence to that of other level III
1.17 	offenders and proximity to schools and, to the greatest extent
1.18 	feasible, shall mitigate the concentration of level III
1.19 	offenders and concentration of level III offenders near schools.
1.20 	require that the offender reside at a location at least 1,500
1.21 	feet from any school and at least 1,500 feet from another
1.22 	predatory offender unless:
1.23 	(1) the location is a house that was owned by the offender
1.24 	prior to conviction;
1.25 	(2) the house is owned by and resided in by the offender's
2.1 	parents, children, or siblings; or 
2.2 	(3) the building is a treatment facility licensed by the
2.3 	Department of Corrections.
2.4 	(b) If the owner or property manager of a hotel, motel,
2.5 	lodging establishment, or apartment building has an agreement
2.6 	with an agency that arranges or provides shelter for victims of
2.7 	domestic abuse, the owner or property manager may not knowingly
2.8 	rent rooms to both level III offenders and victims of domestic
2.9 	abuse at the same time.  If the owner or property manager has an
2.10 	agreement with an agency to provide housing to domestic abuse
2.11 	victims and discovers or is informed that a tenant is a level
2.12 	III offender after signing a lease or otherwise renting to the
2.13 	offender, the owner or property manager may evict the offender.