Supervision abatement status policy modified relating to corrections.

A bill for an act

relating to corrections; modifying the supervision abatement status policy; amending

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 244.46, subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 244.46, subdivision 1, is amended

to read:

Subdivision 1.

Adopting policy for earned compliance credit; supervision abatement

status.

(a) The commissioner must adopt a policy providing for earned compliance credit

and supervision abatement status, including the circumstances under which an individual

may receive earned compliance credits and transition to supervision abatement status.
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policy must include consideration of an individual's effort to pay restitution to the extent

known to the supervising agency and must provide that an individual who has the ability

to pay restitution but engages in willful nonpayment is not eligible to transition to supervision

abatement status.
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(b) Except as otherwise provided in the act, once the time served on active supervision

plus earned compliance credits equals the total length of the supervised release term or, if

applicable, the aggregate length of the supervised release term and conditional release term,

the individual is eligible for supervision abatement status. However, the commissioner must

not place the individual on supervision abatement status for the remainder of the supervised

or conditional release term if the commissioner determines that doing so would present a

risk to public safety, after weighing factors including the individual's stability, behavior, or

overall adjustment while on supervision. For individuals with lifetime terms of conditional

release, the commissioner shall not place the individual on supervision abatement status

unless the time served on active supervision plus earned compliance credits equals at least

ten years.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective September 1, 2026.

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