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Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying the definition of family or household member for DWI motor vehicle
forfeiture purposes
(je)

Latest Action: 04/18/2007 - HF substituted by motion [HF829]

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2E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for public safety and corrections initiatives ARTICLE 1 - PUBLIC SAFETY APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety for emergency management, criminal apprehension, cooperative investigation of cross jurisdictional criminal activity, laboratory activities, DWI lab analysis, forensic scientists, fire marshal, alcohol and gambling enforcement, office of justice programs, gang and drug task force, victim notification system, squad car cameras, peace officer overtime, youth intervention programs, crime victim support grant, sexual violence, domestic violence, administration costs, 911 emergency services/ARMER, public safety answering points, medical resource communication centers, ARMER debt service, improvements, interoperability planning, state backbone operating costs and public [...]

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Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Creating a sober house task force, specifying membership, defining sober house,
requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date on the question of sober
houses regulation; subjecting sober houses to housing statutory and local
regulations; including sober houses under the definition of landlord;
prohibiting landlord waiver of tenant rights and remedies; providing for
attorney general enforcement
(rt)

Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Returned from Senate with amendment

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HF 1078 THIRD ENGROSSMENT Omnibus health and human services finance bill. ARTICLE 1: CHILD WELFARE POLICY Section 1: Specific powers language modified. Section 2: Child language modified. Section 3: Notice to commissioner; referral for postplacement assessment language modified. Section 4: findings; orders language modified. Section 5: Reimbursement of costs language modified. Section 6: Reasons for deferral language modified. Section 7: Duty to ensure placement prevention and family reunification; reasonable efforts language modified. Section 8: Indian tribe language modified. Section 9: Tribal court language modified. Section 10: identification of extended family members language modified. Section 11: Identification of extended family members language modified. Section 12: Indian tribe [...]

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Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing for an aggressive initiative against impaired driving and chemical dependency; expanding the authority of the court to order persons convicted of driving while impaired (under the influence of alcohol or controlled substance) or arrested for another DWI related offense to submit to the level of care recommended in chemical use assessments; expanding chemical use assessment and report requirements to defendants convicted of certain violent crimes and modifying report content requirements; requiring chemical use assessments used by the commissioner of public safety in decisions relating to reinstatement of drivers licenses to meet certain standards; providing for the timing of the assessments; authorizing the court to order an assessment based on the belief of the existence of a chemical dependency problem; clarifying the definition of American Indian under chemical dependency treatment provisions; reducing county

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Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Secretary of State Ch. 54 05/07/07

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HF 829 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus public safety finance bill appropriating money for the courts, public safety, corrections, and other agencies; imposing criminal and civil penalties; and regulating DWI and driving provisions. ARTICLE 1: APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations provided. Section 2: Public safety appropriations language provided. Section 3: Supreme Court appropriations language provided. Section 4: Court of Appeals appropriations language provided. Section 5: Trial Courts appropriations language provided. Section 6: Tax Court appropriation language provided. Section 7: Uniform Laws Commission appropriation language provided. Section 8: Board on Judicial Standards appropriation language provided. Section 9: Board of Public Defense appropriation language provided. Section 10: Public Safety [...]

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Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance

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1E Requiring negotiation of a supplementary group residential housing (GRH)
payment rate for a certain provider in Crow Wing county serving chemically
dependent clientele
(me)

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Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing for a group residential supplemental service rate for a group
residential housing facility in Mahnomen county providing care to homeless,
disabled, chemically dependent and mentally ill individuals
(rt)


Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds to construct a Native American juvenile treatment center
on or near the White Earth Reservation
(me)

Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the commissioner of human services to study and make recommendations
to the legislature by a certain date on a financing structure to cover housing
and services for programs providing residential adolescent treatment; specifying
county, insurance and parental contributions as considerations for financial
eligibility determination
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety for a grant to a
nonprofit organization providing family substance abuse treatment services in
Blue Earth county
(je)

Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance

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1E Modifying group residential housing rates for certain facilities serving
chemically dependant males in Hennepin and Ramsey counties
(me)

Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the commissioner of human services to provide a planning grant to
address local and culturally relevant alcohol and drug treatment for American
Indian youth and to develop a plan for a family based youth treatment center in
the Leech lake area; requiring a volunteer board and specifying board membership
and plan requirements; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds for the demolition of buildings and infrastructure and
the redevelopment and reuse of the Ah Gwah Ching regional treatment center
campus
(me)

Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) applicants to pass a drug
test at the time of application for assistance; requiring current participants
to pass a drug test at the next time of eligibility recertification as a
condition of continued eligibility, requiring participant payment of test costs
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the commissioner of human services to issue an annual report to the
legislature on the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment
(me)

Latest Action: 05/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Regulating sober houses; defining sober houses under treatment for alcohol and
drug use, housing and zoning and landlord tenant statutory provisions for
regulatory purposes, requiring counseling services and alternative living
arrangement notice for residents, restricting residence to persons with chemical
dependency and requiring certain financial interest disclosure to prospective
residents; prohibiting landlord waiver of tenant rights, specifying attorney
general prosecutorial authority; creating a sober house working group, requiring
membership to include the commissioners of human services, health and public
safety departments and the housing finance agency (HFA) director
(rt)