{"id":31260,"date":"2022-04-30T04:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T04:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/30\/divided-house-passes-omnibus-judiciary-and-public-safety-bill-sends-it-back-to-senate-session-daily\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T04:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T04:32:55","slug":"divided-house-passes-omnibus-judiciary-and-public-safety-bill-sends-it-back-to-senate-session-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/30\/divided-house-passes-omnibus-judiciary-and-public-safety-bill-sends-it-back-to-senate-session-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Divided House passes omnibus judiciary and public safety bill, sends it back to Senate – Session Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAt the start of the seven-hour debate on the omnibus judiciary and public safety supplemental budget bill, both Republican and DFL House members stressed that ensuring the safety of Minnesotans is the foremost responsibility of the state.<\/p>\n


\n\tBut each side has significantly different ideas on how best to meet that solemn responsibility.<\/p>\n


\n\tA House divided along party lines passed HF4608<\/a>\/SF2673<\/a>*, as amended<\/a> to substitute the House language, 68-61 Friday and returned it to the Senate, which passed its version 48-19<\/a> Monday. A conference committee will likely be needed to construct a compromise bill.<\/p>\n


\n\tRep. Carlos Mariani<\/a> (DFL-St. Paul), chair of the House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy Committee, touted the innovative ways the bill would adopt several new approaches. They include creative ways to help law enforcement meet current staffing challenges, increase crime prevention efforts, help offenders reintegrate into society after release from prison, and address accountability issues when law enforcers break the law.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe have to modernize how we do public safety, not live in the past,\u201d Mariani said. \u201cThat\u2019s the power that lies at the heart of this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe House bill focuses on community-based crime-prevention programs, including grants for prevention, intervention, mental health and wellness of at-risk juveniles, plus police accountability reforms, such as extending the civil statute of limitations for bodily offenses committed by law enforcement officers, and a requirement that police officer body camera footage be released to families within five days after a deadly force incident and to the public within 14 days.<\/p>\n