Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF2271

"Minnesota Public Protection Act of 2005"; authorizing and providing for the
issuance of concealed carry permits for pistols, defining concealed carry;
imposing penalties for concealed carry without a permit, excepting licensed
peace officers or authorized military personnel; granting peace officers certain
authority to disarm with or without cause; invalidating non-Minnesota permits;
specifying certain permit application and eligibility requirements and certain
permit requirement exemptions, excluding persons diagnosed with certain
psychiatric disorders or convicted of certain crimes from eligibility,
specifying certain personal liability insurance coverage requirements and
prohibiting false representations; requiring and providing for issuance of the
permits by local chief law enforcement officers on official standardized permit
cards, specifying certain permit card content requirements; imposing a time
limit for granting or denying the permits, failure to act to result in denial;
authorizing an application processing fee, limit; granting chief law enforcement
officers certain investigatory authority, requiring background and authorizing
certain records checks; specifying certain chief law enforcement officer records
retention requirements; exempting permit issuers from liability for damages by
individual permit holders; requiring permit holder notice to chief law
enforcement officers of name or address changes, time limit, imposing a penalty
for violation, authorizing imposition of an administrative fee for new permit
cards, requiring law enforcement officer name or address change reports to the
commissioner of public safety; requiring the commissioner to maintain an
automated database of persons authorized to carry pistols, specifying certain
availability requirements and regulating disclosure of information in the
database; regulating permit denials, authorizing appeal to the pistol permit
review board, specifying certain petition requirements; establishing the pistol
permit review board, specifying certain membership requirements; requiring the
board to prepare a standardized pistol training curriculum by a certain date to
be conducted by certified firearms instructors, specifying certain curriculum
content and instructor certification requirements; specifying permit validity,
providing for renewal; requiring or providing for automatic permit revocation
under certain conditions; providing enhanced sentences for permit holder use of
pistols to facilitate the commission of a felony; prohibiting the carrying of
pistols under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, providing for
mandatory chemical testing upon probable cause; creating a presumption in favor
of administrative forfeiture upon permit holder arrest for certain offenses,
providing for judicial review; prohibiting the possession of concealed weapons
on school or youth organization property and in alcoholic beverage
establishments, places of worship, arenas or sports facilities and parks,
penalties, exceptions; authorizing private property owners or local government
units to ban weapons from the premises including parking lots and garages,
ignorance of the ban not to be a defense; requiring annual statistical reports
by the commissioner to the legislature, specifying certain report content
requirements; grandfather clause; repealing certain existing provisions
regulating the issuance of pistol permits under the gun control act
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