1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; appropriating money for research-based professional 
1.3 	development that includes "response to intervention" problem solving.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; ST. CROIX RIVER EDUCATION DISTRICT.
 1.6 	$500,000 in fiscal year 2010 and $500,000 in fiscal year 2011 are appropriated from 
1.7 	the general fund to the commissioner of education for a grant to the St. Croix River 
1.8 	Education District to deliver standardized, research-based professional development in 
1.9 	problem solving, consistent with the uses listed in Laws 2007, chapter 146, article 2, 
1.10 	section 46, subdivision 17.
1.11 	This appropriation is reduced by the amount of any federal special education funds 
1.12 	available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act not otherwise allocated 
1.13 	to school districts.

1.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2009.