SF 4760

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As amended 4/30/2026: - Modifies the use of a military honorable discharge as evidence of rehabilitation by removing the requirement that the service occurred after a disqualifying conviction, but specifies that it is no longer valid evidence if the person is convicted of a gross misdemeanor or felony after their military service. - Makes it discretionary, rather than mandatory, for a licensing or hiring authority to consider factors such as the seriousness of a crime or the time elapsed since its commission when determining if an applicant is rehabilitated. - Require that if the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension determines that a sealed record did not qualify for expungement relief, they must unseal the record and notify the judicial branch. - Eliminates the ability for a partnership to be licensed as a private detective or protective agent. (p. 47) - Requires the chief executive officer the chief financial officer, the qualified representative, and the Minnesota manage of a corporate applicant to meet detective licensing requirements. (p. 48) - Adds forged digital likeness to criminal provisions relating to identity theft. (p. 61). - Defines closed-loop gift card and open-loop gift card in relation to retail theft. (p. 59) - Adds tampering with stolen retail merchandise for the purpose of obtaining anything of value from the retailer or any retail customer to the defintion of organized retail crime. - Establishes that retail merchandise includes gift cards. - Establishes the value of gift card theft to be the greatest amount of economic loss the owner of the property might reasonably suffer, including the full monetary face value or potential value for variable-load gift cards. - Prohibits the sale of kratom products to anyone under the age of 21 (instead of 18). (p. 9) - Prohibits prediction markets. (p. 65) - Requests that the state fire marshal consider amending the State Fire Code to require sealed batteries for smoke alarms in dwelling units by 1/15/2027. (p. 113) - NOTE: 4/30 amendment removes the following provisions: - Requires the "no alcohol sales" designation to be removed from a person's ID if they have not been documented as possessing, consuming, or driving impaired in the past 20 years, rather than 10 years. - Requires a person who is charged with both refusal to submit to testing and test failure to be subject to a different license revocation period, unless the person simultaneously committed an offense of child endangerment. - Repeals a section of law related to administrative fines and penalties for DWI offenses. - Alters the list of crimes that qualify a person as a program participant in the state's ignition interlock program to no longer include a person whose license has been revoked for causing bodily harm or vehicular homicide as a result of driving under the influence of cannabis, hemp, THC, or a combination of alcohol and other substances.

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