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SUGGESTED MANDATES FOR CONSIDERATION OF REPEAL OR REFORM <br />Mandate Statute Comments <br />Public Safety/Corrections <br />Eliminate <br />484.77 <br />Allowing counties to charge a rental fee to cover the cost of building, maintaining, <br />Responsibility for <br />operating, remodeling, insuring, and renovating facilities occupied by the court <br />County to <br />would provide for accountability and transparency in government costs and <br />Provide Rent <br />operations. Approximately $1,806,900 per year. <br />Free Space to <br />State Courts <br />State Court <br />484.52 <br />The County Sheriff is required to provide state court security. Approximately <br />Security <br />$1,242,800 per year. <br />Eliminate State <br />480.181 <br />The 1999 Legislature approved the transfer of responsibility for funding most, but <br />Court Costs Paid <br />480.1811 <br />not all, trial court operations. Approximately $365,000 per year. <br />by Counties <br />480.182 <br />Eliminate Shift <br />206C.331 <br />Since the 1994 Public Defender takeover by the State of Minnesota, the courts <br />of Public <br />Subd. 3(d) <br />have regularly appointed public defenders to represent indigent parents in <br />Defender Costs <br />Children in Need of Protection or Services (CHIPS) and Termination of Parental <br />for Representing <br />260C.163 <br />Rights (TPR) cases. Beginning in 2008, the state public defenders no longer <br />Parents in <br />Subd. 3(b) <br />accepted these cases, and when counsel was ordered by the court the costs were <br />CHIPS/TPR. <br />billed to the county. In 2012 legislation was passed that codifies recent Supreme <br />Court rulings requiring counties to pay for the representation of adults in <br />CHIPS/TPR proceedings, if they are unable to financially provide for their own <br />counsel. The legislation did provide more authority for the county to develop <br />contracts with attorneys to provide these services. Options are being developed <br />to control county costs, but the costs would be more appropriately funded by the <br />state through the public defender's office. Approximately $75,000 per year. <br />Eliminate State <br />611.21 <br />Public defender's offices can secure court orders to direct payments by counties <br />Court Authority <br />for services other than counsel. This is not an expenditure the county has any <br />to Direct <br />ability to control or estimate for budgeting purposes. Approximately $2,000 per <br />Payment by the <br />year. <br />County for <br />Services Other <br />than Counsel for <br />Indigent <br />Defendants <br />Subtotal: $3,491,700 <br />Human Services <br />Mental Health 245.4835 This was imposed by the Legislature out of concern that since the state was <br />Maintenance of shifting money from counties to health plans, counties would begin reducing their <br />Effort (MOE) investment in mental health. Approximately $5,370,700 per year of which <br />$3,750,700 is county responsibility. <br />33 <br />