Loading chat...

MN HF3138

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

3/17/2014

Primary Sponsor

Carly Melin

Click for details

Origin

House of Representatives

88th Legislature 2013-2014

AI Summary

  • Amends Minnesota Statutes section 645.241 to create two penalty tiers for prohibited acts without specified penalties
  • Acts prohibited by statutes enacted or amended before July 1, 2014 remain misdemeanors
  • Acts prohibited by statutes enacted or amended after July 1, 2014 are reduced to petty misdemeanors when no penalty is specified
  • Applies the penalty reduction prospectively only to newly enacted or amended statutes, not retroactively to existing laws

Legislative Description

Penalty lowered for acts prohibited by statutes for which no penalty is specified, and this change applied only prospectively to newly enacted or amended statutes.

Last Action

Introduction and first reading, referred to Civil Law

3/17/2014

Committee Referrals

Civil Law3/17/2014

Full Bill Text

No bill text available