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State Representative Mary Franson
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-3201
For more information contact: House GOP Communications 651-296-5520
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
News from Representative Franson
Every 10 years after a U.S. census is taken, the state must redraw the legislative and congressional district lines. Because Governor Dayton vetoed the legislative redistricting plan last year, Chief Justice Lorie Gildea appointed a five judge panel to redraw the district lines. To find more information about the redistricting process, please visit the state geographic information services website.
An urgent bill, HF 2394, was voted on during Monday’s floor session to create more stringent community notification requirements for civilly committed sex offenders who are being provisionally discharged from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP). It requires community notification prior to entering a halfway house as part of their release. This bill was signed by Governor Dayton on Friday.
This bill centers on the decision of DHS and the Hennepin County District Attorney’s office to provisionally discharge Clarence Opheim, a sex offender who molested 29 children in the 1970s and 80s. For the past 18 years, Mr. Opheim has been a client the MSOP program where he has been given intense treatment and therapy. If released, Mr. Opheim will be the first person in over a decade to be granted a provisional discharge from MSOP.
HF 1484 requires Minnesota's adult basic education performance tracking system to use longitudinal data on students' participation rates in diversionary work and other programs to track and improve adult basic education program outcomes for program participants in order to comply with federal law.
HF1268 would allow for Pay Day lenders to charge other fees previously not defined in statute. These new fees would apply towards transporting, storing, securing, insuring, and maintain the item the lender has taken on from the customer. This would apply towards items such as a boat.
HF 657 would prevent ticket issuers from prohibiting the reselling of tickets legally purchased by ticketholders. Through this bill an issuer cannot make the buyer agree not to resell the ticket, impose a penalty on the ticket buyer for the reselling, or treat the seller any differently than someone who did not resell their ticket. The ticket issuer is also prevented from employing any technological means to prevent the reselling of tickets.
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Have a great weekend!
Mary
News Items
- Legislative Update (May 24, 2013) - (Posted: May 24 2013 2:09PM)
- Legislative Update (May 17, 2013) - (Posted: May 17 2013 1:48PM)
- Legislative Update (May 10, 2013) - (Posted: May 10 2013 4:06PM)
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