Bill > HF4967

This bill appropriates funds for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state government functions, including judiciary, public safety, and corrections, and modifies laws related to crimes, firearms, and emergency vehicles. * **Judiciary:** * Chief Justice Security: $101,000 in fiscal year 2027 for protection details. * Judicial Branch Security Unit: $312,000 in fiscal year 2027 for staffing. * Safe and Secure Courthouse Initiative: $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2027 for grants to governmental entities for courthouse safety improvements, requiring a 50 percent nonstate match and available until June 30, 2029. * **Public Safety:** * Public Safety Administration: $500,000 in fiscal year 2027 for a public awareness campaign for extreme risk protection orders. * Emergency Management (School Safety Grant Program): $4,565,000 in fiscal year 2027 for grants to K-12 schools to enhance safety and security. * Emergency Management (Minnesota School Safety Center Team): $435,000 in fiscal year 2027 for staffing and operational costs. * Criminal Apprehension (Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Team): $2,084,000 in fiscal year 2027 for staffing and operations to assess and investigate threats. * Criminal Apprehension (Financial Crimes and Fraud Section): $1,531,000 in fiscal year 2027 for staffing and operations. * Criminal Apprehension (Ownership Certifications): $450,000 in fiscal year 2027 for establishing a process for legal ownership certificates of certain semi-automatic weapons, with a base of $146,000 starting in fiscal year 2028. * **Corrections:** * Incarceration and Prerelease Services: $89,000 in fiscal year 2027 for base budget adjustments. The bill also modifies laws concerning authorized emergency vehicles, decommissioning of law enforcement vehicles, and creates new crimes or modifies existing ones related to theft of public funds, impersonating a peace officer, and various firearms policies, including prohibitions on certain types of firearms and large-capacity magazines, and requirements for serialization and safe storage. Many of these new criminal provisions and firearm regulations are effective August 1, 2026.