Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF0415

Relating to the Minnesota sex offender program (MSOP)

ARTICLE 1 - STRICT AND
INTENSIVE SUPERVISION AND TREATMENT; COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN SERVICES AND COUNTY
DUTIES

Specifying certain duties of the commissioner of human services (DHS)
relating to providing strict and intensive supervision and treatment (SIST) for
individuals court ordered on provisional discharge; requiring the SIST to meet
public safety requirements; requiring counties to determine demand for housing
options and provisional discharge and requiring annual evaluation

ARTICLE 2 -
CIVIL COMMITMENT MODIFICATIONS

Requiring the judicial appeal panel to
consider petitions for relief brought by civilly committed persons; establishing
and providing for a sex offender civil commitment screening unit to review cases
and conduct evaluations; requiring all commitment cases to be submitted to the
screening unit; providing a standard for commitment and evaluation; establishing
disposition; clarifying county attorney access to data; making conforming
amendments; modifying the statewide judicial panel; requiring a court appointed
attorney from the sex offender civil commitment defense panel; establishing the
sex offender civil commitment defense office; prohibiting passes for committed
persons; requiring biennial reviews; transferring certain responsibilities of
the special review board to the judicial appeal panel; appropriating money to
the sex offender civil commitment screening unit, the civil commitment defense
office, and to the commissioner of human services (DHS); repealing the petition
for reduction in custody and the judicial appeal panel

ARTICLE 3 -
SENTENCING

Requiring counties to determine the average number of offenders
and provide appropriate community housing options in the county; establishing a
mandatory lifetime probation for sex offenders; making conforming changes;
specifying no right to release upon completion of term of imprisonment for
executed sentences; establishing a mandatory statutory maximum sentence for
repeat offenders, allowing exceptions and stay of imposition or execution;
modifying indeterminate sentences minimum term of imprisonment; establishing a
special review panel to consider supervised release petitions and allowing
petitions for release and hearing and specifying criteria for release; requiring
the commissioner of corrections to ensure a certain level of sex offender
treatment; appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for increased
sex offender treatment; repealing dangerous sex offenders mandatory ten-year
conditional release term
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