| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to public safety; modifying the crime of fleeing a peace officer in a motor |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 vehicle to add a heightened penalty for fleeing in a culpably negligent manner; |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 171.174; 609.487, subdivision 5, by |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 adding a subdivision. |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 171.174, is amended to read: |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8 171.174 REVOCATION; FLEEING PEACE OFFICER OFFENSE. |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9 The commissioner of public safety shall revoke the license of a person upon receipt of |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10a certificate of conviction showing that the person has in a motor vehicle violated section |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11609.487, subdivision 3, 3a, or 4, or an ordinance in conformity with those subdivisions. The |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12commissioner shall revoke the license as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13 (1) for the first offense under section 609.487, subdivision 3, for not less than one year; |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14 (2) for the second offense or subsequent offenses under section 609.487, subdivision 3, |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15for not less than three years; |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16 (3) for an offense under section 609.487, subdivision 3a, for not less than four years; |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17 (4) for an offense under section 609.487, subdivision 4, clause (a), for not less than ten |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18years; |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19 (4) (5) for an offense under section 609.487, subdivision 4, clause (b), for not less than |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20seven years; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21 (5) (6) for an offense under section 609.487, subdivision 4, clause (c), for not less than |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22five years. |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 24 | 24 | | 25-00811 as introduced12/12/24 REVISOR KLL/EH |
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| 25 | 25 | | SENATE |
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| 26 | 26 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 27 | 27 | | S.F. No. 323NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 28 | 28 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: COLEMAN, Housley, Lang, Kreun and Duckworth) |
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| 29 | 29 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 30 | 30 | | Introduction and first reading01/21/2025 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety 2.1A limited license under section 171.30 may not be issued for one-half of the revocation |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2.2period specified in clauses (1) to (5) (6) and after that period is over only upon and as |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2.3recommended by the adjudicating court. |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.4 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2025, and applies to crimes |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.5committed on or after that date. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2.6 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.487, is amended by adding a subdivision to |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2.7read: |
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| 38 | 38 | | 2.8 Subd. 3a.Fleeing an officer; motor vehicle; culpable negligence.Whoever, by means |
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| 39 | 39 | | 2.9of a motor vehicle, flees or attempts to flee a peace officer who is acting in the lawful |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2.10discharge of an official duty, and the perpetrator knows or should reasonably know the same |
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| 41 | 41 | | 2.11to be a peace officer, and who in the course of fleeing operates the vehicle in a culpably |
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| 42 | 42 | | 2.12negligent manner whereby the perpetrator creates an unreasonable risk and consciously |
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| 43 | 43 | | 2.13takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another, is guilty of a felony and |
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| 44 | 44 | | 2.14may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than four years or to payment of a fine of |
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| 45 | 45 | | 2.15not more than $8,000, or both. |
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| 46 | 46 | | 2.16 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2025, and applies to crimes |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2.17committed on or after that date. |
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| 48 | 48 | | 2.18 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.487, subdivision 5, is amended to read: |
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| 49 | 49 | | 2.19 Subd. 5.Revocation; fleeing peace officer offense.When a person is convicted of |
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| 50 | 50 | | 2.20operating a motor vehicle in violation of subdivision 3, 3a, or 4, or an ordinance in conformity |
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| 51 | 51 | | 2.21with those subdivisions, the court shall notify the commissioner of public safety and order |
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| 52 | 52 | | 2.22the commissioner to revoke the driver's license of the person. |
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| 53 | 53 | | 2.23 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2025, and applies to crimes |
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| 54 | 54 | | 2.24committed on or after that date. |
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| 55 | 55 | | 2Sec. 3. |
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| 56 | 56 | | 25-00811 as introduced12/12/24 REVISOR KLL/EH |
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