1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to crime; allowing consecutive sentencing 
  1.3             when an offender commits one or more additional crimes 
  1.4             between the time of the commission of one crime and 
  1.5             the time of sentencing on that crime; directing the 
  1.6             sentencing guidelines commission to make the 
  1.7             guidelines consistent; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.8             1997 Supplement, section 609.15, subdivision 1. 
  1.9   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.10     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 
  1.11  609.15, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.12     Subdivision 1.  [CONCURRENT, CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES; 
  1.13  SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENT.] (a) Except as provided in 
  1.14  paragraph ~~(c)~~ (d), when separate sentences of imprisonment are 
  1.15  imposed on a defendant for two or more crimes, whether charged 
  1.16  in a single indictment or information or separately, or when a 
  1.17  person who is under sentence of imprisonment in this state is 
  1.18  being sentenced to imprisonment for another crime committed 
  1.19  prior to or while subject to such former sentence, the court in 
  1.20  the later sentences shall specify whether the sentences shall 
  1.21  run concurrently or consecutively.  If the court does not so 
  1.22  specify, the sentences shall run concurrently.  
  1.23     (b) The court may impose separate sentences of imprisonment 
  1.24  on a defendant for two or more crimes and require the sentences 
  1.25  to run consecutively when the defendant commits one or more 
  1.26  additional crimes during the time between the defendant's 
  1.27  commission of one crime and the time of sentencing on that 
  2.1   crime.  If the court does not specify whether the sentences run 
  2.2   concurrently or consecutively, the sentences shall run 
  2.3   concurrently. 
  2.4      (c) When a court imposes sentence for a misdemeanor or 
  2.5   gross misdemeanor offense and specifies that the sentence shall 
  2.6   run consecutively to any other sentence, the court may order the 
  2.7   defendant to serve time in custody for the consecutive sentence 
  2.8   in addition to any time in custody the defendant may be serving 
  2.9   for any other offense, including probationary jail time or 
  2.10  imprisonment for any felony offense. 
  2.11     ~~(c)~~ (d) An inmate of a state prison who is convicted of 
  2.12  committing an assault within the correctional facility is 
  2.13  subject to the consecutive sentencing provisions of section 
  2.14  609.2232. 
  2.15     Sec. 2.  [DIRECTION TO SENTENCING GUIDELINES COMMISSION.] 
  2.16     The sentencing guidelines commission is directed to amend 
  2.17  section II.F of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines to make it 
  2.18  consistent with Minnesota Statutes, section 609.15. 
  2.19     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.20     Sections 1 and 2 are effective August 1, 1998, and apply to 
  2.21  crimes committed on or after that date.