1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to the military, firearms, and employment; clarifying that a statute 
1.3 	ensuring the continuation of state licenses and certificates of registration for 
1.4 	any trade, employment, occupation, or profession while soldiers and certain 
1.5 	essential employees are engaged in active military service applies to licenses and 
1.6 	certificates of registration requiring firearms safety and usage training;amending 
1.7 	Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 326.56, subdivision 2.
1.8 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.9 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 326.56, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.10 		Subd. 2.License or registration, renewal; exemption for military service.
 1.11 	(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of statutes, any person required by law to be 
1.12 	licensed or registered by the state of Minnesota in order to carry on or practice a trade, 
1.13 	employment, occupation or profession within this state who is also required by law 
1.14 	to renew the license or certificate of registration at stated intervals and to pay a fee for 
1.15 	such renewal on or before a specified date, or be subject to revocation of the license or 
1.16 	certificate or other penalties, and who has been ordered into active military service, or who 
1.17 	has been engaged, or shall hereafter be engaged, in employment outside of the United 
1.18 	States essential to the prosecution of a war or to the national defense, whose license or 
1.19 	certificate of registration was effective at the time of the person's entry into active military 
1.20 	service or engagement in the employment, is hereby exempted from the payment of all 
1.21 	renewal fees and from the filing of any application for renewal, which but for this section 
1.22 	would have been required as a condition of the renewal of the license or certificate, during 
1.23 	the time the person has been in active military service or that employment, and from any 
1.24 	penalties for nonpayment or late payment, and is hereby exempted from further payment 
1.25 	of such renewal fees and from the making of any application for renewal during the period 
2.1 	the person shall remain in  active military service or  the employment, and for six months 
2.2 	thereafter. The license or certificate in the meantime shall remain in full force and effect, 
2.3 	and if it has been canceled or revoked solely on the  basis of nonpayment of renewal fees 
2.4 	or failure to apply for a renewal, it shall be reinstated upon the application of the licensee 
2.5 	or registrant or by anyone on the person's behalf without the payment of any penalties 
2.6 	or costs. Any such person may within six months from the date of release from active 
2.7 	military service, or from the date of return within the boundaries of the United States if the 
2.8 	person has been engaged in the essential employment, make application for a renewal of 
2.9 	the license or certificate without penalty and in the same manner as if the person had made 
2.10 	application therefor at the time or time specified by existing laws, irrespective of whether 
2.11 	the license or certificate has expired or is due to expire within that time period.
2.12 	(b) The phrase "license or certificate of registration" in paragraph (a) includes, but is 
2.13 	not limited to, a license or certificate of registration for a trade, employment, occupation, 
2.14 	or profession for which the state requires firearms training, provided that the person who 
2.15 	was engaged in active military service or was engaged in employment outside of the 
2.16 	United States essential to the prosecution of a war or to the national defense, had obtained 
2.17 	training or significant experience in firearms safety and usage during that service or 
2.18 	employment for the same general type or class of rifle, shotgun, or handgun as the person 
2.19 	would be expected to use in the trade, employment, occupation, or profession.

2.20 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
2.21 	and applies to applications for renewal of licenses and certificates of registration on or 
2.22 	after that date.