1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to crime; increasing the penalty for criminal sexual conduct in the first 
1.3 	degree;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.342, subdivision 2.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.342, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.6 		Subd. 2.Penalty. (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 609.3455; or 
1.7 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 609.109, a person convicted under subdivision 1 may 
1.8 	be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 30 years or to a payment of a fine of 
1.9 	not more than $40,000, or both.
1.10 	(b) Unless a longer mandatory minimum sentence is otherwise required by law 
1.11 	or the Sentencing Guidelines provide for a longer presumptive executed sentence, the 
1.12 	court shall presume that an executed sentence of 144 300 months must be imposed on an 
1.13 	offender convicted of violating this section. Sentencing a person in a manner other than 
1.14 	that described in this paragraph is a departure from the Sentencing Guidelines.
1.15 	(c) A person convicted under this section is also subject to conditional release under 
1.16 	section 609.3455.

1.17 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2011, for crimes committed 
1.18 	on or after that date.