|
Provided by a GOP House Aide, this DFL-proposed legislation list
will enlighten (if not disturb) you. 2007 has started out with a bang: 1. CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF KETCHUP: Rep. Andy Welti (D-Plainview)
wants to impose severe criminal penalties if you carry, use, or
possess a glass container on a watercraft or along Minnesotas public
waters. You could get 270 days in jail if you have a picnic on the
lake and bring glass bottles of ketchup, mustard, and relish. If you
have a six-pack of Buddys Cola from New Ulm on your pontoon boat, you
would face 540 days behind bars, because each bottle would be a
separate offense under the precise language of the bill. If you bring
a jar of cold cream when you go sunbathing, you could do 90 days for
that misdemeanor. Rep. Welti later said he introduced the bill as an
anti-littering proposal, but his bill outlaws mere possession of the
deadly glass containers. (House File 522)
2. I HAVE A RIGHT TO USE YOUR NON-PUBLIC RESTROOM: You could face a
$100 fine if your retail establishment has a non-public restroom and
you do not allow anyone to use that restroom if they have floating back
teeth, nausea, or the trots. Rep. Erin Murphy (D-St. Paul) wants to
fine firms and employees $100 if they do not let a customer use the
firms non-public restroom if the customer has any medical condition
that requires immediate access to a toilet facility. This could apply
to your residential bathroom if you are having a yard sale or running a
daycare center, because the bill is so vague. (House File 1015)
3. YOU SHOULD HAVE A WRITTEN RIGHT FOR BATHROOM BREAKS: Rep. Rick
Hansen (D-South St. Paul) wants the state to require written policies
for employees of meatpackers to provide adequate time for necessary
bathroom breaks. The bill would also create a Meat-Packers Bill of
Rights, calling for written job descriptions and written salary
descriptions. The bill would also create a state bureaucracy to
guarantee these rights. (House File 643).
It gets much worse. To see the other 79, continue reading below.
By the way, you can look these bills up at
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/revisor/pages/search_status/status_search.php?body=House
4. HELLO! I AM BAMBI! I AM YOUR STATE-FUNDED AEROBICS TEACHER!: Rep. Bev Scalze (D-Little Canada) wants to authorize cities to provide their city employees with staff, equipment, and facilities for preventive health and employee recognition services. Some municipal employees may find new value in the old advice from aerobics instructors: And dont forget to breathe. (House File 905)
5. THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPERS: Rep. Scott Kranz (D-Blaine) wants to raise taxes on homeowners deeds by 66%. He would then take that money to subsidize the rents of non-homeowners and to build houses or rental units for other people. (House File 939)
6. TWO DAYS OF PAID LEAVE FOR BOYFRIENDS: Rep. Joe Mullery (D-Minneapolis) wants to give up to two days of paid leave each year for significant others who live in a household with a child to attend school meetings or deal with student-related meetings. (House File 744)
7. KNOCK, KNOCK! THE BABY INSPECTORS ARE HERE: Rep. Carolyn Laine (D-Columbia Heights) would require government investigators to visit every new mother in the hospital or at home to inquire whether they new about all the requirements of a new mother and all the programs that government offers on such topics as WIC, child abuse, and immunizations. (House File 595)
8. KEEPING GOVERNMENT GOING ON AUTO-PILOT: Rep. Bernie Lieder (D-Crookston) wants to take the pressure off the Legislature to get its work done by allowing all state agencies to keep going even if the Legislature does not approve funding for them. (House File 534)
9. DONT LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON SPENDING: Rep. Phyllis Kahn (D-Minneapolis) wants to preserve all spending on all programs if the Legislature does not pass a specific law to continue, modify, or end each program. (House File 66)
10. PUT GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ON AN ESCALATOR: Rep, Loren Solberg (D-Grand Rapids) wants to include inflation in projections for spending programs, which would assume that these programs would expand even if future legislatures did not expand benefits. (House File 68)
11. HOW I SPENT YOUR MONEY ON MY SUMMER SESSION: The Democrats want to eliminate the cap for legislators expenses during special sessions. HF 227 (Phyllis Kahn).
12. REVERSE DISCRIMINATION IN COURT: Rep. Cy Thao (D-St. Paul) wants courts to give job preferences to immigrants over citizens when awarding contracts for translators and interpreters. Should immigrants automatically be presumed to have better English skills than American-born citizens have skills in foreign languages? (House File 46)
13. BAMBI IS PLACING YOU UNDER CREATURE ARREST: Rep. Joe Mullery (D-Minneapolis) wants to create a board to provide "environmental justice," which means the fair treatment of people of all races, cultures, and income in the development, adoption, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws and policies. (House File 205)
14. RAISE MINIMUM WAGE BY 50% AND PUT IT ON AUTO-PILOT: Rep. Tom Rukavina (D-Virginia) wants to raise the minimum wage by 50% and put annual increases on auto-pilot with indexing based on urban pay scales, even if the unemployment rate suddenly skyrockets. (House File 456)
15. THE A.G. IS HERE TO SEE IF YOU ARE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE: Rep. Bill Hilty (D-Finlayson) wants to change business laws to create socially responsible corporations, into which the Attorney General may intervene for failure to meet social goals. (House File 404)
16. HOW DOES ONE SHAVE A YAK?: Rep. David Bly (D-Northfield) wants you to pay $125,000 to provide research on what alternative livestock could eat grass in Minnesota. (House File 845)
17. MORE SOCIAL SPENDING, INSTEAD OF DEBT PAYMENTS: The City of St. Paul took out huge state loans to build the Xcel Energy Center and the adjoining RiverCentre convention complex. Now, the city wants to spend money on other things, instead of making its promised payments on the bonds. Rep. Alice Hausman (D-St. Paul) wants the Legislature to forgive the rest of the $65 million owed to the state on the Xcel arena and the $43 million owed to the state on the convention center. (House Files 859 and 860)
18. SEX ED FOR KINDERGARTEN: Rep. Neva Walker (D-Minneapolis) would authorize school districts to provide Students in K-12 with age-appropriate materials that address varied societal views on sexuality, sexual behaviors, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, in an age-appropriate manner. The bill would require such instruction for grades 7-12. (House File 615).
19. LENIN IS DEAD, BUT HE IS MAKING A COMEBACK: Rep. Joe Mullery (D-Minneapolis) wants judges to decide what is an unconscionable price for any good or service during an abnormal market disruption and impose fines of up to $35,000 for each sale at whatever might later be found to be an unconscionable price. (House File 740)
20. WITH DAY-CARE AND PINK-SLIPS FOR ALL: Remember those television ads for the insurance company with whales? When California imposed tax increases on companies with business in other states, Pacific Mutual moved its whales, employees, and tax base from the West Coast to Omaha. Rep. Frank Hornstein (D-Minneapolis) wants to chase more Minnesota jobs out of the state. He wants to impose similar tax increases on large employers in order to provide child care subsidies to almost every family in the state. The subsidies would be paid to every family with income of less than 75% of the state median income (almost every family with pre-school children), and pay for it with more taxes on large employers. Do Minnesotans remember working for former resident firms such as Control Data, Tonka, Cray Computers, and Honeywell? Jobs can and do leave unfriendly places. (House File 912)
21. CYBER-BULLYING: Rep. Debra Hilstrom (D-Brooklyn Center) wants to require all school districts to adopt written policies against all bullying or intimidation of any students, including all forms of intimidation and bullying in all forms, including, but not limited to, electronic forms and forms involving Internet use. (House File 504)
22. WHAT WERE THEY SMOKING?: It is possible that the Legislature may pass a state law that would allow terminal patients or people with chronic pain to grow and use medical marijuana. But the bill moving forward goes far beyond that. If you can convince a doctor that you have severe but not chronic pain, you could get a state license to grow 12 large plants, have a smokable stash, and keep an unlimited amount of remnants from prior plants. Even better, if federal agents seize your weed, the state will reimburse you for more than your costs; taxpayers would cover the street value of your grass. Rep. Tom Huntley (D-Duluth) is the Chief Author of House File 655.
23. PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT: At the same time that Rep. Tom Huntley is the Chief Author of the bill to legalize the smoking of marijuana (House File 655), he is also the Chief Author of the smoking ban bill for tobacco. (House File 305)
24. ILL BUY THAT CAR FOR $40 MILLION: Rep. Frank Hornstein (D-Minneapolis) would give you a tax credit for buying an alternative fuel car. If you dont owe any Minnesota income taxes, the state will pay you the 10% as a cash refund. The bill has no limit on the 10% credit, the refund, the price of the car, or how long you own it. You could buy a $40,000 car for $40 million, sell the car back to the dealer for $38 million, and keep $2 million. What a country! (House File 1002)
25. I REMEMBER 10th GRADE AS THE BEST FOUR YEARS OF MY LIFE: Rep. Jim Davnie (D-Minneapolis) wants to raise the age of eligibility to 23 for students to continue in the graduation incentives program to finish high school. (House File 987)
26. ALLOW 16-YEAR-OLDS TO VOTE IN SCHOOL ELECTIONS: Rep. Phyllis Kahn (D-Minneapolis) first wanted 16-year-olds to vote in school board elections. (House File 428)
27. ALLOW 16-YEAR-OLDS TO VOTE IN ALL STATE AND LOCAL RACES: Rep. Phyllis Kahn (D-Minneapolis) then decided to expand her earlier efforts and amend the constitution to allow 16-year-olds to vote in all state and local elections. (House File 630).
28. THESE TAXES COULD DRIVE YOU TO DRINK: Rep. Michael Paymar (D-St. Paul) wants to increase excise taxes by up to more than eight times current tax rates for most alcoholic beverages. (House File 1050)
29. ILLEGAL ALIENS TO GET IN-STATE TUITION: Rep. Carlos Mariani (D-St. Paul) wants illegal aliens to get in-state tuition. Illegal aliens would get discount tuition if they spent three years in a Minnesota high school, earned a GED, and promised to file to become resident aliens at their earliest possible opportunity. (House File 722)
30. ILLEGAL ALIENSTO GET IN-STATE TUITION; BADGERS TO PAY MORE!: Rep. Debra Hilstrom (D-Brooklyn Center) wants to give in-state college tuition to illegal aliens who file a paper saying there are applying to legalize their immigration status. The same bill would raise tuition for students from Wisconsin and some other states, instead of relying on their home states to pay the difference under reciprocity agreements. (House File 682)
31. ILLEGAL ALIENS TO PAY SAME TUITION; MINNESOTA RESIDENTS HIT: Rep. Diane Loeffler (D-Minneapolis) wants to set tuition for MnSCU colleges and universities at the same rate for all students. Minnesota residents would lose their in-state advantage over both students from other states and illegal aliens. (House File 1032)
32. WELCOME TO AMERICA! PUT UP YOUR FEET: The Democrats want to waive the work requirements of welfare programs for immigrants who are getting funds from certain federal programs. Rep. Cy Thao (D-St. Paul) offered House File 316.
33. CASH BONUSES FOR LOW-INCOME ALIENS: Rep. Steve Simon (D-St. Louis Park) wants to give cash bonuses to illegal aliens. The bill would create a tax credit for English classes, citizenship classes, and application fees. If an aliens tax bill is lower than the cost of these expenses, the bill would give the balance of the credit to the alien in cash. (House File 747).
34. MOVING CONVICTED PERVERTS TO THE SUBURBS OR SMALL TOWNS: Rep. John Lesch (D-St. Paul) wants to draw stay-away zones in such a way that large concentrations of convicted Level II and Level III sex offenders in Minneapolis and St. Paul will have to move to the suburbs. (House File 476)
35. MOVING SLUMS TO THE SUBURBS AND SMALL TOWNS: For the purpose of promoting economic diversity throughout Minnesota and to alleviate the concentration of low-income households in high poverty areas, Rep. John Lesch (D-St. Paul) would create a tax incentive to move more low-income housing to the suburbs and rural communities. (House File 777)
36. SEAT BELTS IN ALL SHOPPING CARTS: Rep. Mike Jaros (D-Duluth) has proposed a requirement that every shopping cart in Minnesota must be equipped with a strap, device, or piece of equipment designed, using reasonable engineering standards, to prevent a child from falling out of a shipping cart. This meaningful bill does not include penalties for failure to provide helmets and fire-proof suits for riders. (House File 620).
37. PROVIDING EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING: Rep. Tom Tillberry (D-Fridley) offered a bill with a blank check for school districts to hire people to provide for the emotional and social well-being of students. The blank appropriation would pay for more school counselors, social workers, psychologiusts, nurses, and other licensed student services personnel. (House File 808)
38. WINNER TAKES ALL, UNLESS THE DEMOCRATS ARE UNHAPPY: Rep. Kent Eken (D-Twin Valley) has proposed a constitutional amendment to allow the Legislature to set the process for deciding who is the winner in a race for state-wide offices, judgeships, and the Legislature if the leading candidate gets less than 50% of the vote. (House File 600)
39. $5,000 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR BABY-SITTERS: Rep. David Bly (D-Northfield) wants to provide $5,000 scholarships and $100 bonuses to people who take care of children up to kindergarten age. The scholarships and one-year completion bonuses would go to early care and education providers. (House File 814)
40. A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HEALTH INSURANCE: Rep. Tom Huntley (D-Duluth) has proposed a constitutional amendment. It would state: Every Minnesota resident has the right to health care. It is the responsibility of the governor and the legislature to implement all necessary legislation to ensure affordable health care. Millions of people may move to Minnesota if this bill passes. (House File 683)
41. EXPAND THE LOTTERY TO INCLUDE LOCAL PARKS: Rep. Paul Thissen (D-Minneapolis) would expand the state Lottery system to include gambling games for local parks. (House File 67).
42. LOTTERY GAMES FOR BALLET AND OLD HOUSES: Rep. Al Doty (D-Royalton) wants the state to sponsor lottery games to benefit ballet, opera, and historic preservation. (House File 819)
43. GAMBLING AT THE GREAT MINNESOTA GET-TOGETHER: Rep. Phyllis Kahn (D-Minneapolis) wants to require the State Fair to allow lottery tickets to be sold on the grounds. (House File 1055)
44. RE-ARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC: Rep. Paul Thissen (D-Minneapolis) wants to define how licensed interior designers apply design theories of human behavior and aesthetics. Sadly, the bill defines human behavior solely as the characteristics and behaviors of individuals and groups that relate to the physical environments in which they function, and to the processes of environmental modification and change. Some Republicans believe that human behavior has more to do with interactions with people, not furniture. (House File 991)
45. REPLACE LITTLE LEAGUE WITH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Rep. Loren Solberg (D-Grand Rapids) would require six weeks of summer school for students in grades 1-4 to learn a foreign language. (House File 623).
46. FREE EDUCATION TO TREAT CULTURAL MINORITIES: Rep. Neva Walker (D-Minneapolis) wants taxpayers to forgive college costs for people who provide mental health services to clients from cultural or ethnic minorities through a non-profit organization for three years. (House File 575)
47. SCHOOLS MAY GIVE NATURO-PATHIC MEDICINE: Rep. Larry Hosch (D-St. Joseph) would allow schools to administer physician-prescribed naturo-pathic medicine. the treatment of disease through the stimulation, enhancement, and support of the inherent healing capacity of the person. Methods of treatments are chosen to work with the patient's vital force, respecting the intelligence of the natural healing process. (House File 748)
48. FREE GED FEES FOR THE PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED: Rep. Frank Hornstein (D-Minneapolis) would waive the test fee for GED tests for persons who are precariously housed, without defining the term. (House File 751)
49. WILL THERE BE BACKGROUND CHECKS ON THIS?: Rep. Erin Murphy (D-St. Paul) wants to create grants for family, friends, and neighbors to gather pre-school children together to read them books. (House File 796)
50. PAY MORE FOR CAR THIEVES AND DWIs IN TWIN CITIES: Rep. John Lesch (D-St. Paul) would make people in the suburbs and Greater Minnesota pay more for car insurances by forbidding insurance companies to set higher rates for the Twin Cities and any other area where there are more crashes, DWIs, and car thefts. (House File 53)
51. HERE IS A BONUS FOR HAVING YOUR CAR STOLEN: Rep. Michael Paymar (D-St. Paul) wants taxpayers to give you a $500 bonus if your insured car is stolen. (House File 425)
52. DEMOLITION CAN BE HEALTHY AND SAFE: Rep. Brita Sailer (D-Park Rapids) wants to allow the Clearbrook-Gonvick school district to use its state funds for health and safety programs to pay for demolition of the old Gonvick school building. (House File 831)
53. YOU CANNOT CLOSE YOUR BUSINESS: Rep. Carlos Mariani (D-St. Paul) wants to require an unnamed car manufacturer (FORD) to maintain any unnamed car factory (ST.PAUL) in operating condition for at least two years after it closes its doors. Lathes, drills, computers, welding gear, and other equipment could not be moved to other plants for two years. (House File 826)
54. I WILL TAKE THE JOB TRAINING, UNTIL I WONT: Rep. Willie Dominguez (D-Minneapolis) wants to prohibit people who are moving from welfare to work from getting job training from unpaid work unless the welfare recipients sign a waiver for the employer. (House File 924)
55. $2 MILLION FOR WILLMAR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Rep. Al Juhnke (D-Willmar) wants to extend the runway to 6,500 feet. That will give enough take-off space for Air Force One when future U.S. President Dean Johnson flies home to sand off the truth. (House File 823)
56. NO DEBT FOR THE DEAN JOHNSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Rep. Al Juhnke (D-Willmar) wants to forgive the debt of the City of Willmar to the State of Minnesota for buying the land to extend the airport runway to 6,500 feet. (House File 824)
57. SHOOT YOUR CAR: Rep. Melissa Hortman (D-Brooklyn Park) wants to make it the states transportation policy to have the least possible adverse impact on the environment. That means, no cars for you. (House File 639).
58. LETS GO TO PERKINS: Rep. Al Doty (D-Royalton) wants $500,000 to build a regional community center in Upsala. An alternative would be to give $1,200 to each of the 413 residents of Upsala for pancakes at Perkins. (House File 757)
59. KEEPING THE NEST FULL FOR SIX MORE YEARS: Rep. Diane Loeffler (D-Minneapolis) wants to raise everyones insurance costs by requiring all insurance policies to cover all dependent children until age 25 on their parents policies. The current law requires coverage only until age 19, unless the child up to age 25 is a full-time student. (House File 475)
60. UNCLE RALPH IS TOO FAT, BRING IN THE HOIST: Rep. Patti Fritz (D-Faribault) would require every hospital, clinic, nursing home and medical facility to ban employees from lifting or assisting patients to their feet. Instead they would have to purchase hoists, engineering controls, lifting and transfer aids, or mechanical assistive devices. Employees could lift patients in an emergency. (House File 712)
61. WHAT PART OF VOLUNTEER IS UNCLEAR?: Rep. Tom Tillberry (D-Fridley) wants a $2,400 tax break for parents who volunteer at their childrens schools. (House File 477)
62. AT THREE YEARS OLD, TEST FOR KINDERGARTEN Rep. David Bly (D-Northfield) wants to test parents of children from birth to age three to see that their three-year-old children will be ready for kindergarten. (House File 585)
63. NO VOTING FOR AMERICAN IDOL ON A CELL PHONE: Rep. Sandy Masin (D-Eagan) wants to ban cell phone companies from charging users for payments to third parties called by the user. The bill would also require the cell company to explain its contracts in writing. (House File 635).
64. SMARTER THAN THE AVERAGE BEAR: The Democrats want to allow metal containers to be used to capture bears, but not if the containers can trap other animals. Rep. Larry Hosch (D-St. Joseph) offered House File 72.
65. WE CAN DEPORT YOGI, BUT WE CANNOT DEPORT MURDERS AND RAPISTS: Rep. Scott Kranz (D-Blaine) wants to allow Metro governments to fund removal of undesirable wild animals from the Metro area. However, over 500 foreign-born felons in the Minnesota correctional system are not deported. (House File 247)
66. $4 MILLION FOR A VOLLEYBALL COURT: Rep. Kim Norton (D-Rochester wants $4 million of bonds for a volleyball facility in Rochester. (House File 624).
67. I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE LEGISLATURES JOB: Rep. David Bly (D-Northfield) wants to create a study by bureaucrats to identify all the legislation necessary to develop a strategy to obtain the maximum economic benefit for the state and its citizens from the renewable energy activities. (House File 660).
68. STUDY THE SPONGES: The Democrats want you to pay for a state study of the regulation of contractors who use sponges and other anti-microbial devices to get rid of mildew. House File 402 has been offered by Rep. Rick Hansen (D-South St. Paul).
69. CELEBRATE US, FROM WHEREVER WE COME: Rep. Mike Jaros (D-Duluth) would write a blank check to create a Commission on Ethnic Heritage to celebrate the descendants of immigrants to Minnesota over the centuries. Doesnt that describe all of us? (House File 318)
70. SHIELD LIGHTS AT EVERY SPORTS FIELD: Rep. Phyllis Kahn (D-Minneapolis) would require every sports field in every park and at every school to put up shields to block any direct sight of any lights visible from outside the field, and to end light pollution. (House File 446)
71. BUY YOUR LONG EXTENSION CORDS NOW!: Rep. Kate Knuth (D-New Brighton) wants to make the states transportation goals to promote and increase the use of high-occupancy vehicles and low-emissions vehicles as part of the social, economic, and environmental impacts of transportation systems. (House File 827)
72. SPEED TRAPS FOR EVERY COMMUNITY: Rep. Larry Hosch (D-St. Joseph) wants to authorize every community to replace state-wide tickets for speeding, stop signs, traffic lights, and lights on a vehicle with local administrative citations, with all fines going to the speed traps community. (House File 847)
73. SUCH A DEAL! HE CAN GET IT FOR US AT RETAIL: Rep. Frank Hornstein (D-Minneapolis) wants road contractors to lose bids unless they are least 10% below the cost of having the work done by DOT employees. Under the bill, DOT would keep its estimate secret until after private firms had submitted their estimates. Then, if a private contractor submitted a bid of $900,001 for a contract where the secret DOT bid is $1 million, the Hornstein bill would deny taxpayers a savings of $99,999. (House File 546)
74. THIS WILL BE SOME VERY EFFECTIVE WRITING: Rep. Kim Norton (D-Rochester) wants school boards to write a policy that ensures that parents and caregivers play an integral role in assisting student learning. (House File 990)
75. ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF FIREWOOD: In the Big North Woods, you would not be allowed to possess firewood unless it was a kind approved by State Commissioners, under a bill offered by Rep. Rick Hansen (D-South St. Paul). The new state inspection of firewood is being prompted by the possibility that pest-infested firewood might be brought from the Gulf Coast to Minnesota lake country. (House File 1016)
76. CELEBRATE YOUR KIESTER: Rep. Rick Hansen (D-South St. Paul) wants to create tax check-offs for individuals or corporations to dedicate unlimited portions of their refunds or increase their taxes to pay for the upcoming sesquicentennial parties in Minnesota towns, such as Kiester. (House File 1009)
77. RICH OR POOR, STUDENTS CAN BILL TAXPAYERS FOR TESTS: Rep. Kim Norton (D-Rochester) wants to stick taxpayers with the bill when students take the SAT or ACT tests for college admission. (House File 984)
78. IS THIS A MAXIMUM EFFORT FOR A SCHOOL?: Rep. Melissa Hortman (D-Brooklyn Park) wants to divert $240,000 from the maximum effort school loan fund to develop and restore wetland and native prairie habitat on the land at an elementary school. (House File 978)
79. BEAUTIFY MINNESOTA, THEN PAY THE TAXES: Rep. Phyllis Kahn (D-Minneapolis) wants to apply the sales tax to services involving cosmetic surgery which does not meaningfully promote the proper function of the body or prevent or treat illness or disease. (House File 1027)
80. ROBOT COP CAMERAS TO ENFORCE LAW: Rep. Paul Thissen (D-Minneapolis) wants to authorize robo-cameras to send tickets to owners of vehicles, who will be presumed to be the guilty drivers unless they can prove otherwise. (House File 1058)
81. LANDLORDS ARE PRESUMED GUILTY FOR GANG CRIMES: Rep. John Lesch (D-St. Paul) would have courts presume that a landlord knew that one member of a criminal gang was using his apartment to take bets over the phone, or take calls for prostitutes, or engage in any other gang activity. The fact that crimes happened in an apartment would be prima facie evidence that the landlord was aware of the crimes. If a judge issues an injunction to the landlord to stop these crimes, and the landlord fails, the punishment would be up to 30 days in jail, a $10,000 fine, or both. (House File 49)
82. JUST WHAT YOU WANT, JUST WHAT WE NEED: The DFL would allow the Legislature to meet every day between January and May. Rep. Tony Sertich (D-Chisholm) has offered House File 181.
|
