Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: HF1406

HF 1406

THIRD ENGROSSMENT

Criminal sexual conduct life without release
sentences provided, maximum sentences increased, Sex Offender Review Board
established, sentencing guidelines modified, and predatory offender registration
and notification requirements modified.

ARTICLE 1 - SEX OFFENDERS: LIFE WITHOUT
RELEASE SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN SEX OFFENSES; INDETERMINATE LIFE SENTENCES FOR
OTHER SEX OFFENSES; INCREASED STATUTORY MAXIMUMS; DIRECTION TO SENTENCING
GUIDELINES COMMISSION

Sections 1-6: Tenchical references added.
Sec. 7-9:
Related terms defined.
Sec. 10-18: Penalties modified and technical references
added.
Sec. 19: Sentencing guideline changes mandated.
Sec. 20:
Repealer.

ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER REVIEW BOARD

Section 1: Data
made accessible to Minnesota Sex Offender Review Board.
Sec. 2: Board meeting
closure specified.
Sec. 3: Responsibilities modified.
Sec. 4: Direction
provided. to commissioner.

ARTICLE 3 - SEX OFFENDERS; TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING
CHANGES

Sections. 1-13: Technical and conforming changes added.
Sec. 14:
Revisor instruction.

ARTICLE 4 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 1: Criminal
history information classified.
Sec. 2: Co-payments included in plan.
Sec. 3:
Conforming change.
Sec. 4: ¿Crime¿ definition modified.
Sec. 5: Convicted
and conviction defined.
Sec. 6: Victim defined.
Sec. 7: Hearing notice
requirement modified.
Sec. 8: Petition procedure clarified.
Sec. 9: Victim
notification required.
Sec. 10: Commissioner of correction plan development
modified.
Sec. 11: Sex offender conditional release modified.
Sec. 12:
Technical reference added.
Sec. 13: Penalties modified.
Sec. 14-15: Effective
dates provided.
Sec. 16: Supreme court task force study required.

ARTICLE 5 -
PREDATORY OFFENDER REGISTRY

Section 1: Registrant status disclosure authority
specified.
Sec. 2: Transfer and discharge appeals regulated.
Sec. 3: Predatory
offender registration procedure modified, and new procedure established..
Sec.
4: Technical references added.
Sec. 5: Civil commitment determination
procedure modified.
Sec. 6: End of confinement review committee establishment
requirement eliminated.
Sec. 7: Offender regulations from other states
provided.
Sec. 8: Conforming changes.
Sec. 9: Health care facility
defined.
Sec. 10: Language clarification provided.
Sec. 11: Revisor¿s
instruction.
Sec. 12: Repealer.

ARTICLE 6 - HUMAN SERVICES ACCESS TO PREDATORY
OFFENDER REGISTRY

Section 1: Data usage modified.
Sec. 2: Patient and
resident record powers and duties modified.
Sec. 3: Pass release notification
modified.
Sec. 4-6: Technical language clarifications
Sec. 7:
Repealer.

ARTICLE 7 - HUMAN SERVICES BACKGROUND STUDIES

Section 1:
Disqualification from direct contact required.
Sec. 2: Technical
clarification.
Sec. 3: Direct contact provided pending completion of background
study provision modified.
Sec. 4-8: Penalty disqualification crimes
expanded.
Sec. 9: Disqualification notice provision modified.
Sec. 10:
Conforming change.
Sec. 11: Information requirements expanded.
Sec. 12:
Reconsideration request notice modified.
Sec. 13: Data classified.
Sec. 14:
Conforming change relating disqualification recission.
Sec. 15-17: Permanent,
ten-year, and seven-year bar provisions modified.
Sec. 18: Disqualification
notification required.
Sec. 19: Technical change and license variance provision
modified.
Sec. 20: Disclosure requirements modified.
Sec. 21: Data management
provision modified.

ARTICLE 8 - SEX OFFENDER POLICY BOARD

Section 1: Sex
offender policy board established and reports required.

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