Unemployment insurance judges and paid leave judges designation as judicial officials provision and unemployment insurance judges and paid leave appeals judges exclusion from protections related to personal information in real property records provision

A bill for an act

relating to economic development; designating unemployment insurance judges

and paid leave appeals judges as judicial officials; excluding unemployment

insurance judges and paid leave appeals judges from protections related to personal

information in real property records; amending Minnesota Statutes 2025

Supplement, sections 480.40, subdivision 1; 480.50, 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 Appeals 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).

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 480.50, subdivision 1, is amended

to read:

Subdivision 1.

Definitions.

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have

the meanings given.

(b) "County recorder" has the meaning given in section
13.045, subdivision 1
, clause

(4).

(c) "Government entity" has the meaning given in section
13.02, subdivision 7a
.

(d) "Judicial official" has the meaning given in section
480.40, subdivision 1
, paragraph

(b), except that it does not include: (1) employees of the Minnesota judicial branch, the

Office of Administrative Hearings, the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals, or the

Tax Court;
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or
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(2) judges or employees in the Department of Human Services Appeals

Division
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; or (3) judges or employees in the Unemployment Insurance and Paid Leave

Appeals Divisions
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.

(e) "Personal information" has the meaning given in section
480.40, subdivision 1
,

paragraph (c).

(f) "Real property records" means any of the following:

(1) real property records as defined in section
13.045, subdivision 1
, clause (5);

(2) Uniform Commercial Code filings and tax liens maintained by the Secretary of State;

and

(3) any other records maintained by a county recorder or other government entity

evidencing title to, or any lien, judgment, or other encumbrance on, real or personal property.

(g) "Responsible authority" has the meaning given in section
13.02, subdivision 16
.