Bill > SF2909

This bill appropriates funds for judiciary and public safety agencies for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. * **Supreme Court:** $80,141,000 in 2024 and $82,624,000 in 2025 for operations, including a contingent account and increased compensation for justices. * **Court of Appeals:** $14,559,000 in 2024 and $15,259,000 in 2025, including increased compensation for judges. * **District Courts:** $370,910,000 in 2024 and $381,590,000 in 2025, including funds for judges' compensation, addressing case backlogs, mandated psychological services, new treatment courts, courtroom technology, law clerk salaries, interpreter pay, and extreme risk protection orders. * **Guardian ad Litem Board:** $24,358,000 in 2024 and $25,620,000 in 2025. * **Tax Court:** $2,133,000 in 2024 and $2,268,000 in 2025. * **Uniform Laws Commission:** $115,000 each year. * **Board on Judicial Standards:** $655,000 in 2024 and $645,000 in 2025, with $125,000 each year for special investigative and hearing costs for major disciplinary actions, available through June 30, 2027. * **Board of Public Defense:** $154,884,000 in 2024 and $164,360,000 in 2025. * **Department of Human Rights:** $8,048,000 in 2024 and $8,429,000 in 2025, including funds for civil rights enforcement, mediator payments (one-time, available through June 30, 2027), and analysis of civil rights trends. * **Office of Appellate Counsel and Training:** $659,000 in 2024 and $1,560,000 in 2025 for establishment and operations. * **Department of Human Services:** $1,500,000 in 2024 for a grant to First Witness Child Advocacy Center for property acquisition and improvement in Duluth, available until June 30, 2027. * **Sentencing Guidelines:** $1,549,000 in 2024 and $1,488,000 in 2025 for data analysis, administrative support, court information system integration, and a comprehensive review of the guidelines (one-time). * **Department of Public Safety:** Various appropriations totaling over $700 million across fiscal years 2023, 2024, and 2025 for administration, emergency management, criminal apprehension, fire marshal, firefighter training, alcohol and gambling enforcement, office of justice programs, emergency communication networks, and the Peace Officer Standards and Training Board. Significant appropriations include: * Public Safety Administration: $1,000,000 in 2023, $333,079,000 in 2024, and $292,622,000 in 2025. This includes funds for survivor benefits, soft body armor reimbursements (one-time), firearm storage grants, emergency preparedness staff, tribal emergency management, and Coast Guard services for the Grand Portage Band. * Criminal Apprehension: $123,122,000 in 2024 and $106,870,000 in 2025, including funds for DWI lab analysis, use of force investigations, cybersecurity and IT infrastructure upgrades (available through June 30, 2027), expungement-related costs, violent crime reduction strategies, investigative partnerships (available until June 30, 2027), firearm eligibility background checks, human trafficking task force, fusion center activities (one-time), forensic evidence turnaround time reduction, first responder mental health curriculum (one-time), pathways to policing (one-time), direct assistance to crime victim survivors, grants for racially diverse youth, violence prevention project research center (one-time), illicit drug use study (one-time), legal representation for children (one-time), and pretrial release study. * Fire Marshal: $17,013,000 in 2024 and $17,272,000 in 2025 for hazardous materials and emergency response teams, bomb squad reimbursements, nonresponsible party reimbursements (available for one year), and the Hometown Heroes Assistance Program. * Firefighter Training and Education Board: $7,175,000 each year for training, Task Force 1, Task Force 2, and Air Rescue. * Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement: $4,102,000 in 2024 and $3,857,000 in 2025, including funds for enforcement IT improvements. * Office of Justice Programs: $94,758,000 in 2024 and $80,434,000 in 2025, including funds for domestic and sexual violence housing, federal victims of crime funding gap (one-time), office for missing and murdered Black women and girls, increased staffing, office of restorative practices, crossover and dual-status youth model grants (one-time), restorative practices initiatives grants, Ramsey County youth treatment homes acquisition and betterment, Ramsey County violence prevention, office for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives, youth intervention programs, community crime intervention and prevention grants (one-time), resources for crime victims (one-time), prosecutor training (one-time), Minnesota Heals (one-time), sexual assault exam costs, first responder mental health curriculum (one-time), pathways to policing (one-time), direct assistance to crime victim survivors, and grants for racially diverse youth. * Emergency Communication Networks: $77,329,000 in 2024 and $70,597,000 in 2025, including funds for public safety answering points, transition to Next Generation 911 (available until June 30, 2025, one-time), ARMER state backbone operating costs, statewide emergency communications board, and statewide public safety radio communication system equipment grants (available until June 30, 2026, one-time). * **Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Board:** $12,863,000 in 2024 and $12,717,000 in 2025, including funds for peace officer training reimbursements, additional staff and equipment, and additional office space. * **Private Detective Board:** $758,000 in 2024 and $688,000 in 2025. * **Department of Corrections:** $12,643,000 in 2023, $797,937,000 in 2024, and $826,661,000 in 2025. This includes funds for operating deficiency, body-worn camera program (one-time), ARMER radio system upgrades (one-time), PREA compliance, state corrections safety and security investments, health services, educational programming and support services, family support unit, inmate phone calls, virtual court coordination, supportive arts for incarcerated persons grants (available for one year), reentry initiatives, evidence-based correctional practices unit, interstate compact for adult supervision transfer expense reimbursement (one-time), task force on aiding and abetting felony murder (one-time), and base budgets for incarceration/prerelease services and community supervision/postrelease services. * **Ombudsperson for Corrections:** $1,105,000 in 2024 and $1,099,000 in 2025. * **Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities:** $500,000 each year for transfer to Metropolitan State University for juvenile justice services and resources, and for grants to local units of government, tribes, and agencies to support local Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiatives. * **Department of Natural Resources:** $73,000 in 2024 and $9,000 in 2025 for naloxone and training. The bill also includes numerous policy changes related to crime, sentencing, expungement, clemency, firearms, and data practices. Key policy changes include: * **Carjacking:** Creates a new crime of carjacking with varying degrees of severity. * **Felony Murder:** Modifies liability for felony murder and aiding and abetting felony murder. * **Bias Crimes:** Expands the definition of bias-motivated crimes to include ethnicity, gender identity, and gender expression. * **Organized Retail Theft:** Creates a new crime for organized retail theft. * **Firearms:** Modifies provisions related to extreme risk protection orders, including the process for obtaining and enforcing them, and clarifies rules for firearms dealers and transfers. * **Expungement:** Expands automatic expungement for certain petty misdemeanors and misdemeanors, and modifies the process for petitioning for expungement. * **Clemency:** Reorganizes the clemency process by establishing a Clemency Review Commission to review applications and make recommendations to the Board of Pardons. * **Data Practices:** Modifies provisions related to the classification, sharing, and retention of government data, including data from portable recording systems, financial institutions, and criminal history records. * **Lease Covenants:** Modifies requirements for landlords regarding smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and retrieval of tenant property. * **Community Supervision:** Realigns funding and responsibilities for community supervision services, including the creation of a community supervision formula and grants for targeted innovation. * **Earned Incentive Release Credit:** Modifies provisions related to earned incentive release credit and supervision abatement status for incarcerated individuals. * **Juvenile Detention:** Modifies requirements for juvenile detention facilities regarding strip searches and disciplinary actions. * **Fentanyl:** Adds fentanyl and its analogs to Schedule I controlled substances. * **Controlled Substances:** Modifies penalties and definitions related to controlled substance crimes. * **Firearms:** Clarifies provisions related to firearms transfers and eligibility, and establishes extreme risk protection orders. * **Eviction Records:** Modifies provisions related to the sealing of eviction case records. * **Private Prisons:** Prohibits contracts with privately owned and operated prisons for the care, custody, and rehabilitation of inmates. * **Public Safety:** Appropriates funds for various public safety initiatives, including grants for community crime prevention, victim services, and law enforcement training.