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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
<br />Minnesota Session Laws - 2020, Regular Session
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<br />This document represents the act as presented to the governor. The version passed by the legislature is the final engrossment. It does not represent
<br />the official 2020 session law, which will be available here summer 2020.
<br />Key: (1) languagebc dcictcd (2) new language
<br />CHAPTER 74--H.F.No. 4556
<br />An act relating to state government; providing for COVID-19 policy and certain other policy changes; extending certain
<br />deadlines; covering certain COVID-19 health expenses; providing temporary emergency authority; expanding usage of
<br />electronic communication, applications, and signatures; appropriating additional money for grants to Second Harvest
<br />Heartland to purchase commodities from Minnesota farmers; modifying certain vehicle registration provisions; allowing
<br />nonposting of tax delinquency and suspension of nondelivery of liquor or beer related to delinquency; modifying certain
<br />treatment provisions; correcting errors in health and human services appropriations; making forecast adjustments; requiring
<br />reports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, sections 168.013, by adding a subdivision; 245F 03; 245F. 04, by adding a
<br />subdivision; 254B.03, subdivision 1; 299C.46, subdivision 3, Minnesota Statutes 2019 Supplement, sections 13D.02,
<br />subdivision 1, 168. 013, subdivision la; 254A.03, subdivision 3, 256B.0759, subdivisions 3, 4, Laws 2019, First Special
<br />Session chapter 1, article 1, section 2, subdivision 5; Laws 2019, First Special Session chapter 9, article 14, section 2,
<br />subdivisions 2, 24, 30, 31, by adding a subdivision; Laws 2020, chapter 71, article 2, section 15, subdivision 3, by adding
<br />subdivisions; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 524; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2019
<br />Supplement, section 254B.03, subdivision 4a; Minnesota Rules, parts 9530.6600, subparts 1, 3; 9530.6605, subparts 1, 2, 3,
<br />4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21a, 21b, 24a, 25, 25a, 26; 9530.6610, subparts 1, 2, 3, 5; 9530.6615; 9530.6620; 9530.6622;
<br />9530.6655.
<br />BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
<br />ARTICLE 1
<br />COVID-19 POLICY
<br />Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2019 Supplement, section 13D.02, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
<br />Subdivision 1. Conditions. (a) A meeting governed by section 13D.01, subdivisions 1, 2, 4, and 5, and this section may be
<br />conducted by interactive television so long as:
<br />(1) all members of the body participating in the meeting, wherever their physical location, can hear and see one another and
<br />can hear and see all discussion and testimony presented at any location at which at least one member is present;
<br />(2) members of the public present at the regular meeting location of the body can hear and see all discussion and testimony
<br />and all votes of members of the body;
<br />(3) at least one member of the body is physically present at the regular meeting location; and
<br />(4) all votes are conducted by roll call so each member's vote on each issue can be identified and recorded; and
<br />(5)_each location at which a member of the body is present is open and accessible to the public.
<br />(b) A meeting satisfies the requirements of paragraph (a), although a member of the public body participates from a location
<br />that is not open or accessible to the public, if the member has not participated more than three times in a calendar year from a location
<br />that is not open or accessible to the public, and:
<br />(1) the member is serving in the military and is at a required drill, deployed, or on active duty; and or
<br />(2) the member has not participatcd morc than three timcs in a calendar year from a location that is not opcn or accessible to
<br />the public.
<br />(2) the member has been advised by a health care professional against being in a public place for personal or family medical
<br />reasons. This clause only applies when a state of emergency has been declared under section 12.31, and expires 60 days after the
<br />removal of the state of emergency.
<br />EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.
<br />Sec. 2. [524.2-503] HARMLESS ERROR.
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