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SF5039 • 2026

Motor vehicle tampering penalty enhancement provision and crime for riding in a vehicle when a person reasonably should have known that a vehicle was taken without permission establishment provision

Motor vehicle tampering penalty enhancement provision and crime for riding in a vehicle when a person reasonably should have known that a vehicle was taken without permission establishment provision

Crime
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Lucero, Limmer, Kreun
Last action
2026-04-09
Official status
Introduction and first reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Motor vehicle tampering penalty enhancement provision and crime for riding in a vehicle when a person reasonably should have known that a vehicle was taken without permission establishment provision

Motor vehicle tampering penalty enhancement provision and crime for riding in a vehicle when a person reasonably should have known that a vehicle was taken without permission establishment provision

What This Bill Does

  • Motor vehicle tampering penalty enhancement provision and crime for riding in a vehicle when a person reasonably should have known that a vehicle was taken without permission establishment provision

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-09 House

    Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

Motor vehicle tampering penalty enhancement provision and crime for riding in a vehicle when a person reasonably should have known that a vehicle was taken without permission establishment provision

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to public safety; increasing the penalty for tampering with a motor vehicle;

establishing a crime for riding in a vehicle when the person reasonably should

have known that a vehicle was taken without permission; amending Minnesota

Statutes 2024, section 609.546.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.546, is amended to read:

609.546 MOTOR VEHICLE TAMPERING.

A person is guilty of a
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gross
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misdemeanor who intentionally:

(1) rides in or on a motor vehicle
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knowing
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when the person knows or reasonably should

know
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that the vehicle was taken and is being driven by another without the owner's

permission; or

(2) tampers with or enters into or on a motor vehicle without the owner's permission.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective August 1, 2025, and applies to crimes

committed on or after that date.

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