Statute of limitations increased for crimes involving medical assistance fraud or other theft of money belonging to the government.

A bill for an act

relating to fraud; increasing the statute of limitations for crimes involving medical

assistance fraud or other theft of money belonging to the government; amending

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 628.26.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 628.26, is amended to read:

628.26 LIMITATIONS.

(a) Indictments or complaints for any crime resulting in the death of the victim may be

found or made at any time after the death of the person killed.

(b) Indictments or complaints for a violation of section
609.25
may be found or made

at any time after the commission of the offense.

(c) Indictments or complaints for violation of section
609.282
may be found or made at

any time after the commission of the offense if the victim was under the age of 18 at the

time of the offense.

(d) Indictments or complaints for violation of section
609.282
where the victim was 18

years of age or older at the time of the offense, or
609.42, subdivision 1
, clause (1) or (2),

shall be found or made and filed in the proper court within six years after the commission

of the offense.

(e) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections
609.322
,
609.342
to
609.345
, and

609.3458
may be found or made at any time after the commission of the offense.

(f) Indictments or complaints for a violation of section
609.561
shall be found or made

and filed in the proper court within ten years after the commission of the offense.

(g) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections
609.466
and
609.52, subdivision

2
, paragraph (a), clause (3), item (iii), shall be found or made and filed in the proper court

within
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six
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15
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years after the commission of the offense.

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(h) Indictments or complaints for violation of section 609.52, subdivision 2, paragraph

(a), clause (3) or (4), where the property consists of public funds belonging to the state or

to any political subdivision or agency shall be found or made and filed in the proper court

within 15 years after the commission of the offense.

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(h)
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(i)
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Indictments or complaints for violation of section
609.2335, 609.52, subdivision

2
, paragraph (a), clause (3), items (i) and (ii), (4), (15), or (16),
609.631
, or
609.821
, where
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the property stolen did not consist of public funds and
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the value of the property or services

stolen is more than $35,000, or for violation of section
609.527
where the offense involves

eight or more direct victims or the total combined loss to the direct and indirect victims is

more than $35,000, shall be found or made and filed in the proper court within five years

after the commission of the offense.

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(i)
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(j)
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Except for violations relating to false material statements, representations or

omissions, indictments or complaints for violations of section
609.671
shall be found or

made and filed in the proper court within five years after the commission of the offense.

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(j)
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Indictments or complaints for violation of sections
609.562
and
609.563
, shall be

found or made and filed in the proper court within five years after the commission of the

offense.

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(k)
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Indictments or complaints for violation of section
609.746
shall be found or made

and filed in the proper court within the later of three years after the commission of the

offense or three years after the offense was reported to law enforcement authorities.

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(l)
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In all other cases, indictments or complaints shall be found or made and filed in

the proper court within three years after the commission of the offense.

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The limitations periods contained in this section shall exclude any period of time

during which the defendant was not an inhabitant of or usually resident within this state.

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(n)
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(o)
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The limitations periods contained in this section for an offense shall not include

any period during which the alleged offender participated under a written agreement in a

pretrial diversion program relating to that offense.

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(o)
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The limitations periods contained in this section shall not include any period of

time during which physical evidence relating to the offense was undergoing DNA analysis,

as defined in section
299C.155
, unless the defendant demonstrates that the prosecuting or

law enforcement agency purposefully delayed the DNA analysis process in order to gain

an unfair advantage.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective August 1, 2026, and applies to crimes

committed on or after that date and to crimes committed before that date if the limitations

period for the crime did not expire before August 1, 2026.

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