Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota Senate Bill SF624 Compare Versions

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Old	New	Differences
1	1	1.1 A bill for an act
2	2	1.2 relating to public safety; eliminating the duty to retreat before using reasonable
3	3	1.3 force in defense of self or others; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section
4	4	1.4 609.06, subdivision 1.
5	5	1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
6	6	1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.06, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
7	7	1.7 Subdivision 1.When authorized.(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions 2
8	8	1.8to 4, reasonable force may be used upon or toward the person of another without the other's
9	9	1.9consent when the following circumstances exist or the actor reasonably believes them to
10	10	1.10exist:
11	11	1.11 (1) when used by a public officer or one assisting a public officer under the public
12	12	1.12officer's direction:
13	13	1.13 (i) in effecting a lawful arrest; or
14	14	1.14 (ii) in the execution of legal process; or
15	15	1.15 (iii) in enforcing an order of the court; or
16	16	1.16 (iv) in executing any other duty imposed upon the public officer by law; or
17	17	1.17 (2) when used by a person not a public officer in arresting another in the cases and in
18	18	1.18the manner provided by law and delivering the other to an officer competent to receive the
19	19	1.19other into custody; or
20	20	1.20 (3) when used by any person in resisting or aiding another to resist an offense against
21	21	1.21the person; or
22	22	1Section 1.
23	23	25-00677 as introduced11/21/24 REVISOR KLL/BM
24	24	SENATE
25	25	STATE OF MINNESOTA
26	26	S.F. No. 624NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
27	27	(SENATE AUTHORS: HOWE, Pratt and Draheim)
28	28	OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
29	29	Introduction and first reading01/27/2025
30	30	Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety 2.1 (4) when used by any person in lawful possession of real or personal property, or by
31	31	2.2another assisting the person in lawful possession, in resisting a trespass upon or other
32	32	2.3unlawful interference with such property; or
33	33	2.4 (5) when used by any person to prevent the escape, or to retake following the escape,
34	34	2.5of a person lawfully held on a charge or conviction of a crime; or
35	35	2.6 (6) when used by a parent, guardian, or other lawful custodian of a child, in the exercise
36	36	2.7of lawful authority, to restrain or correct such child; or
37	37	2.8 (7) when used by a teacher, school principal, school employee, school bus driver, or
38	38	2.9other agent of a district in the exercise of lawful authority, to restrain a child or pupil to
39	39	2.10prevent bodily harm or death to the child, pupil, or another; or
40	40	2.11 (8) when used by a common carrier in expelling a passenger who refuses to obey a lawful
41	41	2.12requirement for the conduct of passengers and reasonable care is exercised with regard to
42	42	2.13the passenger's personal safety; or
43	43	2.14 (9) when used to restrain a person with a mental illness or a person with a developmental
44	44	2.15disability from self-injury or injury to another or when used by one with authority to do so
45	45	2.16to compel compliance with reasonable requirements for the person's control, conduct, or
46	46	2.17treatment; or
47	47	2.18 (10) when used by a public or private institution providing custody or treatment against
48	48	2.19one lawfully committed to it to compel compliance with reasonable requirements for the
49	49	2.20control, conduct, or treatment of the committed person.
50	50	2.21 (b) An actor may use reasonable force under the circumstances described in paragraph
51	51	2.22(a), clause (3), regardless of whether a reasonable possibility of retreat to avoid the danger
52	52	2.23exists.
53	53	2.24 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2025, and applies to acts
54	54	2.25committed on or after that date.
55	55	2Section 1.
56	56	25-00677 as introduced11/21/24 REVISOR KLL/BM