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Committee adopts amendment to modernize jail reporting law, sends House File 772 to Human Services panel
Summary
House File 772, a statutory update that changes how state and local correctional facilities report certain noncitizen inmates to federal authorities, had its author's A1 amendment adopted and was re‑referred to the Human Services Finance and Policy Committee. Testimony included opposition from immigrant legal services and concerns from county
Chair Swazinski presented House File 772 to the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee on March 12 as an update to an older statute that governs reporting by correctional facilities. The bill’s A1 author’s amendment removed the word "undocumented" from specified lines and modernized references to which facilities are covered; the committee adopted the A1 amendment and re‑referred the bill to the Human Services Finance and Policy Committee.
Representative Swazinski said the law dated from 1927 and the amended bill expands coverage from two named state prisons to all 11 state correctional facilities and separates language that previously grouped…
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