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HF 3667

1st Engrossment - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 04/26/2022 07:54pm

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

Current Version - 1st Engrossment

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A bill for an act
relating to housing; establishing a temporary emergency rental assistance program;
appropriating money.

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

Section 1. new text begin APPROPRIATION; COVID-19 EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM.
new text end

new text begin (a) $330,000,000 in fiscal year 2022 is appropriated from the state fiscal recovery federal
fund to the commissioner of the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency to provide emergency
rental assistance under this section. This is a onetime appropriation and is available until
June 30, 2022. For the purposes of this section, "state fiscal recovery federal fund" means
funds received by the state from the state fiscal recovery fund in the American Rescue Plan
Act, Public Law 117-2.
new text end

new text begin (b) The commissioner may use funds under this section to continue operation of the
RentHelpMN rental assistance program authorized under the federal Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2021, Public Law 116-260, and the federal American Rescue Plan Act,
2021, Public Law 117-2. Rental assistance shall be disbursed pursuant to the RentHelpMN
program guidelines in effect on January 28, 2022. The commissioner shall spend not more
than ten percent of the amount appropriated under this section for administrative costs
attributable to providing financial assistance.
new text end

new text begin (c) A landlord may not bring an eviction action against a tenant for the nonpayment of
rent or proceed with an eviction action for nonpayment of rent if one has already been filed,
if the tenant demonstrates the tenant has a pending application for rental assistance under
this section, until the commissioner makes a determination on the application for rental
assistance or June 1, 2022, whichever is first.
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