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MN HF4282

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

3/9/2020

Primary Sponsor

Jay Xiong

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Origin

House of Representatives

91st Legislature 2019-2020

AI Summary

  • Directs the revisor of statutes, in collaboration with house and senate nonpartisan staff, to replace "nonresident alien" and "alien" with "undocumented immigrant" throughout state statute when referring to immigrants.

  • Excludes the term "alien" from replacement when it refers to legal residents, citizens, or non-individual entities such as businesses.

  • Applies retroactively to all existing Minnesota statutes containing these immigration-related terms.

Legislative Description

Immigration terms in statute changed.

Last Action

Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Division

3/9/2020

Committee Referrals

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law3/9/2020

Full Bill Text

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