2025 Minnesota Statutes

609.1016 VICTIM SERVICES ASSESSMENT.

(a) When a court is sentencing a person for an offense listed in paragraph (b), the court must impose a victim services assessment. If the violation is a misdemeanor, the assessment must be at least $500 and not more than $750. For any other violation, the assessment must be at least $750 and not more than $1,000.

(b) The victim services assessment applies to a conviction of the following offenses:

(1) any crime of violence as defined in section 624.712, subdivision 5, other than a violation of chapter 152;

(2) section 518B.01, subdivision 14 (violation of domestic abuse order for protection);

(3) section 609.2242 (domestic assault);

(4) section 609.324, subdivision 1, 1a, or 2 (patronizing or hiring an individual engaged in prostitution);

(5) section 609.3458 (sexual extortion);

(6) section 609.748, subdivision 6 (violation of harassment restraining order);

(7) section 617.261 (nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images); or

(8) section 629.75 (violation of domestic abuse no contact order).

(c) The court must waive payment of the assessment required under this subdivision on a showing of indigency and may waive or reduce payment of the assessment on a showing of undue hardship upon the convicted person or the convicted person's immediate family.

(d) Assessments collected under this section must be deposited into the Minnesota victims of crime account under section 299A.708.

History:

2025 c 35 art 2 s 20