1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to public safety; requiring discharge plans for juvenile offenders who 
1.3 	have mental or emotional problems; appropriating money;proposing coding for 
1.4 	new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 242.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [242.415] SERIOUS AND CHRONIC JUVENILE OFFENDERS; 
1.7 	DISCHARGE PLANS TO ADDRESS MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS.
1.8 	The commissioner of human services, in consultation with the commissioner of 
1.9 	corrections, shall offer to develop a discharge plan for community-based services for 
1.10 	every serious and chronic juvenile offender at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Red 
1.11 	Wing who has a serious and persistent mental illness as defined in section 245.462, 
1.12 	subdivision 20, paragraph (c), or who has, if not for age, an emotional disturbance as 
1.13 	defined in section 245.4871, subdivision 15.

1.14 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.15 	$....... is appropriated in fiscal year 2011 from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.16 	of human services to hire a person to implement section 1.