Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3792

Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government,
providing supplemental appropriations for certain criminal justice, corrections
and public defense purposes ARTICLE 1 APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the
supreme court for civil legal services to low income clients, to the court of
appeals for restoration of legal judicial support services, to the district
court for reduction of judge unit vacancies, for restoration of judicial branch
infrastructure funding and for continuation of the second judicial district
community court, to the commissioner of public safety for organization of the
capitol police department, for the state match for federal disaster assistance,
for criminal apprehension overtime costs, for the court security training
program, for juvenile prostitution law enforcement and officer training grants,
for grants to the Ramsey county attorney for the domestic assault and child
prosecution unit and to local law enforcement agencies for purchase of dogs
trained to detect or locate controlled substances and for matching funds to
counties participating in multijurisdictional narcotics task forces, to the
center for crime victim services for per diem payments and allocation increases
to battered women shelters and for a grant to the center for applied research
and policy analysis at metropolitan state university for the domestic violence
shelter study, to the board of public defense for certain services, to the
sentencing guidelines commission for salary increases, to the Minnesota safety
council for continuation of the crosswalk safety awareness program, to the
commissioner of human services for youth shelter and prostitution prevention
grants and to the attorney general for certain educational materials; reducing a
certain prior appropriation to the commissioner of corrections for certain
community services and a certain transfer from the automobile theft prevention
account in the special revenue fund to the commissioner of public safety for
purchase of tire deflators and a driving simulator, requiring the commissioner
of finance by a certain date to transfer a certain amount of money from the
account to the general fund for criminal justice information systems technology
ARTICLE 2 CRIME PREVENTION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS Allocating correctional
fees collected from criminal offenders supervised by corrections department
agents to the county treasurer of the county of supervision; establishing a
program of grants by the commissioner of human services to nonprofit
corporations or government agencies to increase the availability of emergency
and transitional housing for homeless, runaway or thrown away youth at risk of
being prostituted or currently being used in prostitution and by the
commissioner of public safety to local law enforcement agencies for enhanced law
enforcement efforts and peace officer education and training to combat juvenile
prostitution; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of public safety
to distribute a computer controlled driving simulator to local or state law
enforcement agencies or peace officer standards and training (POST) board
certified skills programs; requiring the superintendent of the bureau of
criminal apprehension (BCA) to develop and implement a training program for
court and law enforcement personnel; requiring the Minnesota safety council to
continue the crosswalk safety awareness program; requiring the center for
applied research and policy analysis at metropolitan state university in
cooperation with the Minnesota center for crime victim services and the
department of public safety to study and make recommendations to the legislature
on providing shelter for victims of domestic violence; requiring the courts and
state and local correctional facilities to consider implementing an automated
victim notification system, requiring the commissioner of public safety in
cooperation with the commissioners of children, families and learning,
corrections and economic security to provide financial assistance to implement
the systems; repealing the automobile theft prevention board and program ARTICLE
3 JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL PROVISIONSEncouraging courts to place juvenile offenders
at the correctional facility at Red Wing instead of in out of state facilities;
requiring counties and the department of corrections to share in the per diem
cost of housing juveniles committed to the commissioner of corrections and
admitted to the Red Wing correctional facility under established admissions
criteria; requiring and providing for commissioner juvenile residential
treatment grants to counties; specifying certain consideration requirements of
the commissioner and the courts in placing juveniles at the Red Wing facility
and restricting out of state placement; requiring the court to commit certain
juveniles to the custody of the commissioner, requiring certain reports;
requiring the commissioner to study the state juvenile correctional system
relating to serious and chronic offenders and report findings and proposals to
the legislature by a certain date ARTICLE 4 CAPITOL POLICE DEPARTMENT
Establishing the capitol police department as a law enforcement division in the
department of public safety under the supervision and control of a director to
be appointed by the commissioner of public safety to provide law enforcement
services in the capitol complex and in other state owned or leased buildings;
transferring the duties of the capitol complex security division to the capitol
police department; creating a permanent capitol complex oversight committee,
specifying membership and duties; repealing the capitol complex security
division of the department of public safety ARTICLE 5 OTHER PROVISIONSGranting
pedestrians the right of way in crossing the roadway on walk signals and in
marked or unmarked crosswalks at intersections without traffic control signals,
requiring drivers to remain stopped until passage of the pedestrian from the
vehicle lane, authorizing local road authorities to provide by ordinance for the
designation of pedestrian safety crossings on highways; requiring the
commissioner of corrections to develop a uniform method to calculate the average
department wide per diem cost of incarcerating offenders at state correctional
facilities; providing for the funding of certain additional county public
defender costs; enhancing penalties for persons (pimps and patrons) soliciting
or promoting juvenile prostitution; classifying certain data collected by
shelter facilities receiving per diem payments; establishing guidelines for the
administration of battered women shelter per diem funding by the Minnesota
center for crime victim services in the department of public safety and
specifying eligibility for the program (mk)