HF401 Summary

• Amends Laws 2020 to provide 8.4 percent salary increases for law enforcement employees represented by the Minnesota Law Enforcement Association, including state patrol troopers, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents, gambling enforcement special agents, conservation officers, fugitive specialists, and commerce insurance fraud specialists.

• Salary increases are retroactively effective from October 22, 2020.

• Appropriates $170,000 in fiscal year 2021 (general fund) and $258,000 in each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023 (general fund) to the Department of Natural Resources for conservation officer salary increases.

• Appropriates funds across multiple sources to the Departments of Corrections, Public Safety, and Commerce for fiscal years 2021-2023, with amounts varying by department and funding source.

• All appropriated amounts are in addition to base appropriations for the respective purposes.