Unemployment insurance judges and paid leave judges designated as judicial officials.

A bill for an act

relating to economic development; designating unemployment insurance judges

and paid leave judges as judicial officials; amending Minnesota Statutes 2025

Supplement, section 480.40, subdivision 1.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 480.40, subdivision 1, is amended

to read:

Subdivision 1.

Definitions.

(a) For purposes of this section and section
480.45
, the

following terms have the meanings given.

(b) "Judicial official" means:

(1) every Minnesota district court judge, senior judge, retired judge, and every judge of

the Minnesota Court of Appeals and every active, senior, recalled, or retired federal judge

who resides in Minnesota;

(2) a current or retired justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court;

(3) employees of the Minnesota judicial branch;

(4) judicial referees and magistrate judges; and

(5) current and retired judges and current employees of the Office of Administrative

Hearings,
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Department of Employment and Economic Development Unemployment Insurance

and Paid Leave Divisions,
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Department of Human Services Appeals Division, Workers'

Compensation Court of Appeals, and Tax Court.

(c) "Personal information" does not include publicly available information. Personal

information means:

(1) a residential address of a judicial official;

(2) a residential address of the spouse, domestic partner, or children of a judicial official;

(3) a nonjudicial branch issued telephone number or email address of a judicial official;

(4) the name of any child of a judicial official; and

(5) the name of any child care facility or school that is attended by a child of a judicial

official if combined with an assertion that the named facility or school is attended by the

child of a judicial official.

(d) "Publicly available information" means information that is lawfully made available

through federal, state, or local government records or information that a business has a

reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public through widely

distributed media, by a judicial official, or by a person to whom the judicial official has

disclosed the information, unless the judicial official has restricted the information to a

specific audience.

(e) "Law enforcement support organizations" do not include charitable organizations.

(f) "Real property records" has the meaning given in section
480.50, subdivision 1
,

paragraph (f).