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State Representative Chris Swedzinski
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-5374
For more information contact: House GOP Communications 651-296-5520
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
News From Representative Swedzinski
Two bills that I have introduced are being heard in committees this week. HF 2333, in regards to fuel theft, was heard in the House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Committee and HF 2159 in the House Agriculture Committee.
House File 2333, is in regards to motor fuel theft at gas stations. This bill would help small businesses better control the cost of collections and ease the burden on local police.
House File 2159 is a bill that would create a new Immigrant and Minority Pilot Microloan Program administered by the Rural Finance Authority (RFA). RFA is the state's main agricultural lending arm. RFA or an intermediary would issue loans of no more than $10,000 to qualifying borrowers to help finance the production of specialty crops and qualifying livestock. The program would receive funding from RFA's existing revolving loan account.
Every 10 years after a 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 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.
To track bills that I am authoring please visit this link and click on my name under chief author or author to search bills.
Don’t forget to take my 2012 legislative survey.
If you have any questions regarding legislative issues please contact my office at 651-296-5374 or by emailing me at rep.chris.swedzinski@house.mn
Sincerely,
Chris
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