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SF4656 • 2026

Assist the return to Minnesota of persons removed to other states due to alleged immigration law violations

Assist the return to Minnesota of persons removed to other states due to alleged immigration law violations

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Klein, Mohamed, Maye Quade, Mann, Port
Last action
2026-03-25
Official status
Authors added Mann; Port
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Assist the return to Minnesota of persons removed to other states due to alleged immigration law violations

Assist the return to Minnesota of persons removed to other states due to alleged immigration law violations

What This Bill Does

  • Assist the return to Minnesota of persons removed to other states due to alleged immigration law violations

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-25 House

    Authors added Mann; Port

  2. 2026-03-23 House

    Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

Assist the return to Minnesota of persons removed to other states due to alleged immigration law violations

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to public safety; assisting the return to Minnesota of persons removed to

other states due to alleged immigration law violations; appropriating money;

proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 299A.

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

Section 1.

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[299A.94] ASSISTANCE WITH RETURN TO MINNESOTA FOR

CERTAIN PERSONS REMOVED FOR ALLEGED IMMIGRATION LAW

VIOLATIONS.

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(a) A person who was removed from Minnesota to another state or country by the federal

government or an agent of the federal government due to an alleged immigration law

violation and subsequently released from detention but not provided transportation back to

Minnesota may contact the Department of Public Safety to receive assistance in returning

if the person is legally free to return. The person may contact the department directly or

another person may contact the department on the person's behalf.

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(b) Upon receiving a request under paragraph (a), the commissioner shall arrange

transportation back to Minnesota at the commissioner's expense or, if more practicable and

convenient to the person seeking return, reimburse the person for the person's reasonable

expenses incurred to return to Minnesota.

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(c) The commissioner shall establish guidelines to allow persons to request assistance

under paragraph (a) but shall accept and seek to assist with any reasonable request for

assistance.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective the day following final enactment.

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Sec. 2.
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APPROPRIATION.
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$....... in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of

public safety to reimburse the department for costs associated with section 1.

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