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HF 1816

as introduced - 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018) Posted on 03/23/2017 04:36pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.

Current Version - as introduced

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A bill for an act
relating to human services; modifying the funding amounts available to community
action agencies and Indian reservations; appropriating money; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2016, section 256E.30, subdivision 2.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 256E.30, subdivision 2, is amended to read:


Subd. 2.

Allocation of money.

(a) State money appropriated and community service
block grant money allotted to the state and all money transferred to the community service
block grant from other block grants shall be allocated annually to community action agencies
and Indian reservation governments under clauses (b) and (c), and to migrant and seasonal
farmworker organizations under clause (d).

(b) The available annual money will provide base funding to all community action
agencies and the Indian reservations. Base funding amounts per agency are as follows: for
agencies with low income populations up to deleted text begin 3,999deleted text end new text begin 1,999new text end , $25,000; deleted text begin 4,000deleted text end new text begin 2,000new text end to 23,999,
$50,000; and 24,000 or more, $100,000.

(c) All remaining money of the annual money available after the base funding has been
determined must be allocated to each agency and reservation in proportion to the size of
the poverty level population in the agency's service area compared to the size of the poverty
level population in the state.

(d) Allocation of money to migrant and seasonal farmworker organizations must not
exceed three percent of the total annual money available. Base funding allocations must be
made for all community action agencies and Indian reservations that received money under
this subdivision, in fiscal year 1984, and for community action agencies designated under
this section with a service area population of 35,000 or greater.

Sec. 2. new text begin APPROPRIATION; COMMUNITY ACTION GRANTS.
new text end

new text begin $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2019 are appropriated from
the general fund to the commissioner of human services for purposes of community action
grants under Minnesota Statutes, sections 256E.30 to 256E.32.
new text end