1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to crime; limiting mitigated departure in sentencing when person convicted 
1.3 	of crime resulting in death;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
1.4 	chapter 609.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [609.1075] OFFENSE RESULTING IN DEATH; SENTENCE.
1.7 	When a person is convicted of a crime that results in the death of another person, the 
1.8 	court may not impose an executed sentence that is a mitigated durational or dispositional 
1.9 	departure from the presumptive sentence under the Sentencing Guidelines or a waiver of 
1.10 	any statutory mandatory minimum for that crime except when the mitigated durational or 
1.11 	dispositional departure or waiver is agreed to by the prosecutor in consultation with the next 
1.12 	of kin of the deceased person.

1.13 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2022, and applies to sentences 
1.14 	imposed on or after that date.