Text of MN SF 1295 (2025)
Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee requirement that the commissioner of corrections to house only biological female inmates provision
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As introduced
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A bill for an act
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relating to corrections; requiring the commissioner of corrections to house only
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biological female inmates at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee;
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amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 243.90.
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 243.90, is amended to read:
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243.90 MINNESOTA CORRECTIONAL FACILITY-SHAKOPEE.
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(a) There is established the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee at Shakopee,
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Minnesota, in which may be placed persons only biological females committed to the
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commissioner of corrections by the courts of this state who, in the opinion of the
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commissioner, may benefit from the programs thereat. The general control and management
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of the facility shall be under the commissioner.
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(b) If the commissioner is housing any inmates at the facility who are not biological
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females on the effective date of this section, those inmates must be transferred to another
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facility within seven days of enactment. This paragraph expires on January 1, 2026.
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EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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Section 1.
25-03051
as introduced
01/30/25
REVISOR
KLL/CH
SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 1295
NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: COLEMAN)
OFFICIAL STATUS
D-PG
DATE
Introduction and first reading
02/13/2025
Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety