Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0609

Relating to criminal justice and public safety

ARTICLE 1 - MANDATORY LIFE
SENTENCES AND INDETERMINATE SENTENCES FOR SEX OFFENDERS; OTHER SEX OFFENDER
SENTENCING CHANGES

Modifying certain provisions providing for the sentencing
of predatory sex offenders; requiring inmates sentenced for sex offenses to
serve conditional release terms and inmates serving mandatory life sentences to
serve an indeterminate sentence or the minimum term of imprisonment before
receiving supervised or conditional release; expanding certain provisions
requiring the commissioner of corrections to determine the appropriateness of
civil commitment of sex offenders and to convene end of confinement review
committees to determine the risk level of predatory offenders; defining
predatory crime and sex offense and certain other terms relating to sentencing;
creating indeterminate or mandatory life sentences for certain criminal sexual
conduct crimes; defining and providing for the crime of criminal sexual
predatory conduct, imposing penalties, doubling the minimum term of imprisonment
applicable to the predatory crime upon conviction; imposing indeterminate
sentences for certain sex offenses, specifying minimum and maximum terms of
imprisonment, prohibiting stay and imposing lifetime conditional release;
imposing mandatory minimum sentences for certain dangerous patterned sex
offenders and for repeat or aggravated offenses, requiring increased sentences
under certain conditions and providing for court determination of danger to
public safety; requiring conditional release for certain sex offenders,
providing for the length and specifying the terms; requiring the sentencing
guidelines commission to review the new and increased penalties for consistency
of presumptive sentences with the assessment by the legislature of the severity
of the crimes, requiring an increase in presumptive sentences under certain
conditions; repealing certain existing provisions providing for mandatory
increased sentences for certain patterned and predatory offenders and for
presumptive and mandatory sentences for repeat sex offenders, specifying a
certain amended and recodified note requirement of the revisor of statutes


ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER REVIEW BOARD

Establishing the Minnesota
sex offender review board, specifying membership requirements and providing for
appointment to the board; specifying certain responsibilities of the board
relating to determination of conditional release; providing for petitions to the
board for release, specifying certain hearing requirements; requiring and
providing for the commissioner of corrections to establish criteria and
procedures for the board and criteria and procedures to govern the review and
release of sex offenders subject to indeterminate sentences and report to the
legislature by a certain date

ARTICLE 3 - SEX OFFENDER TECHNICAL AND
CONFORMING CHANGES

Making technical and conforming changes to certain statutory
provisions relating to programs for adult offenders committed to the
commissioner of corrections, the registration of predatory offenders, supervised
or conditional release, civil commitment of sexual psychopathic personalities
and sexually dangerous persons, grants to community corrections agencies, DNA
analysis of certain offenders, evidence in criminal sexual conduct cases, victim
identity records confidentiality, a certain medical purpose exclusion and the
exclusion of spectators from the courtroom; specifying certain renumbering and
cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes
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