Law and Government Legislation regarding 'Crimes and Criminals' in Minnesota

TICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the office of higher education services office for ACHIEVE, the Minnesota GI bill, state grants, safety officers survivors, interstate tuition reciprocity, state work study, child care grants, Minitex and MnLINK gateway, the learning network, the college savings plan, the Midwest higher education compact, certain small programs, united family medicine registry program and for agency administration, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for developing and strengthening projects to improve campus recruitment and retention of underserved students, for instruction in electronic medical record technology, for excellence in the biosciences, for STEM, for performance bonuses and expanding the online program, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota [...]

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"Local Community Rail Security Act of 2007"; providing for the protection of railroad property from terrorism and other criminal activities; specifying legislative findings and purpose; requiring common carriers to provide law enforcement personnel, emergency personnel, transportation officials and other first responders a risk assessment of railroads in the state; requiring common carriers to have a program in place to protect railroad infrastructure from acts of sabotage, terrorism and other criminal acts (infrastructure protection program), requiring the infrastructure protection program to provide specifically for the security of the infrastructure and include regular inspections, requiring compliance and prescribing penalties, requiring annual updates of the program; specifying requirements for common carriers to protect community facilities, prescribing a penalty; requiring common carriers to provide certain communications [...]

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TICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS Making miscellaneous technical corrections and removing obsolete and redundant references to statutes and other laws relating to legislative audits, government data practices, criminal justice data, state fair liquor sales, a road name, sewage treatment replacement systems, the legislative commission on waste management, battery management pilot projects, mixed municipal solid waste incinerators, the workforce development council, the national board of medical examiners, limited market value, office of enterprise technology and enterprise technology revolving fund, constables, fiduciaries, the crime victim and witness advisory council, unlicensed mental health practitioners and the office of unlicensed mental health practice, city of Worthington general election date, cigarette and tobacco products tax and liquor excise tax effective dates; providing a revisor instruction to update [...]

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1E Relating to public defense; updating and clarifying certain public defense provisions; eliminating the defendant representation copayment requirement; making certain technical changes; eliminating state public defender right to decline to represent indigent petitioners in postconviction remedy cases; requiring the state public defender to supervise the public defender system and allowing the state public defender to assist districts, appointed counsel and organizations; providing for the appointment of a chief appellate public defender by the board of public defense, specifying term limit and qualifications; requiring compensation to be set by the board; prohibiting chief public defenders from engaging in the general practice of law; requiring county payment of advisory and standby counsel, allowing chief appellate public defenders to use certain transcripts of testimony in certain situations; clarifying appointed [...]

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Relating to gambling; modifying the definitions of gambling equipment and promotional ticket; authorizing the gambling control board to impose civil penalties for organizations exceeding certain expense limitations; authorizing organizations authorized to conduct bingo to loan bingo hard cards and other devices to another organization authorized to conduct bingo; authorizing the board to summarily suspend the license of a gambling manager failing to receive required training; modifying requirements for the training of gambling managers; making certain technical changes; prohibiting the board from imposing an annual limit of the value of raffle prizes awarded by licensed organizations, limit; requiring the board to convene a public advisory committee to review operational and regulatory procedures, accounting functions, tax structure and recent trends in lawful purpose contributions and allowable expenses and report to the

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TICLE 1 - APPROPRIATION Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the supreme court, court of appeals, trial and tax courts, uniform laws commission and judicial standards and public defense boards, to the commissioner of public safety for emergency management, criminal apprehension, the fire marshal, alcohol and gambling enforcement, office of justice programs, 911 emergency services and ARMER public safety, to the peace officer standards and training (POST) board, to the private detective board, to the commissioner of human rights for database replacement, to the commissioner of corrections (DOC) for correctional institutions, community services and operations support and for sentencing guidelines ARTICLE 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS Requiring department of human rights gifts and bequests to be credited to a special account; increasing incrementally 911 emergency fees; modifying [...]

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Reorganizing the Minnesota financial crimes oversight council and task force; creating the financial crimes account; transferring responsibility over the oversight council and task force from the commissioner of public safety to attorney general; modifying certain funding and budget requirements for task force operations; modifying victims assistance program and reward requirements; modifying certain duties of the oversight council; expanding the jurisdiction of the oversight council and task force to include organized retail crime; defining organized retail crime; expanding the authority to the oversight council over the task force commander; modifying oversight council membership requirements; requiring a surcharge on instructional permits, provisions licenses, drivers licenses and Minnesota identification cards issued and regulating use of funds; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; eliminating a certain

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1E Relating to public safety; recodifying and restructuring the law on expungements of criminal records; requiring an application for employment used by an employer seeking information concerning prior arrests or convictions of applicants must state the request for information does not apply to sealed or expunged criminal records; providing for the grounds and procedures for expungement of criminal records under certain applicable laws; limiting the remedy available to a court sealing the records and prohibiting the disclosure or opening except under court order or statutory authority; specifying certain grounds for order; requiring the filing of a petition to expunge criminal records, specifying certain fee and petition content requirements, requiring service of petition and proposed order, specifying certain hearing requirements, providing for maintenance of records; specifying certain orders concerning crimes of [...]

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