Minnesota SF 222: Minneapolis Grand Rounds Missing Link trail connection phase I completion bond issue and appropriation

Bill Text

1.1 A bill for an act​
1.2 relating to landlords and tenants; permitting criminal history background checks​
1.3 for nonresident tenant organizers; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section​
1.4 504B.212, by adding a subdivision.​
1.5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:​
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 504B.212, is amended by adding a subdivision​
1.7 to read:​
1.8 Subd. 2a.Criminal history background check; nonresident tenant organizers.A​
1.9 landlord may request a criminal history background check from the superintendent of the​
1.10 Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for a tenant organizer who is not a resident at the premises​
1.11 before the tenant organizer enters the premises or exercises any rights under this section.​
1.12 The tenant organizer must complete a criminal history consent form and provide payment​
1.13 to the landlord in an amount equal to the actual cost to the landlord for conducting the​
1.14 criminal history background check. A landlord may prohibit a tenant organizer from entering​
1.15 the premises or exercising the rights under this section if:​
1.16 (1) the tenant organizer was convicted of a crime of violence, as defined in section​
1.17 624.712, subdivision 5; or​
1.18 (2) the tenant organizer refuses to consent to a criminal history background check.​
1​Section 1.​
25-01504 as introduced​12/18/24 REVISOR JSK/BM​
SENATE​
STATE OF MINNESOTA​
S.F. No. 222​NINETY-FOURTH SESSION​
(SENATE AUTHORS: DRAHEIM)​
OFFICIAL STATUS​D-PG​DATE​
Introduction and first reading​95​01/16/2025​
Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety​
Withdrawn and re-referred to Housing and Homelessness Prevention​235​01/30/2025​