HF 1034

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 03/17/2025 04:44 p.m.

A bill for an act
relating to education finance; clarifying eligible grant expenditures for the
aeronautics and commercial over-the-road technical program; amending Laws
2023, chapter 55, article 1, section 36, subdivision 12.

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

Section 1.

Laws 2023, chapter 55, article 1, section 36, subdivision 12, is amended to
read:

Subd. 12.

Career and technical program expansion; aeronautics pilot program.

(a)
For Independent School District No. 482, Little Falls, for an aeronautics and commercial
over-the-road technical program:

$

450,000

.....

2024

(b) The funds must be used to help support the district's aeronautics and commercial
over-the-road technical pilot program. The funds may be used for equipment, staffing costs,
travel costs, and contracted services.

(c) By February 1, 2027, the district must report to the chairs and ranking minority
members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over kindergarten through grade
12 education on the activities funded by this appropriation. The report must include but is
not limited to information about program participation and demographic information about
the students served in the program, a description of the type of activities offered by each
program during the year, partnerships with higher education and private providers of
aeronautic and commercial over-the-road services, and recommendations for state actions
that could improve aeronautics and commercial over-the-road programming for all school
districts. new text begin The report must also describe how the district's early expenditures for the program
were successful in providing the aeronautics and commercial over-the-road technical program
in a more timely manner to the district's participating students.
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new text begin (d) The school district's program expenditures for this program occurring after May 24,
2023, and prior to the Department of Education officially awarding this grant to the school
district, qualify as eligible program expenditures and are reimbursable from the grant amount
in paragraph (a).
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deleted text begin (d) deleted text end new text begin (e) new text end This appropriation is available until June 30, 2026. This is a onetime appropriation.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective retroactively from May 24, 2023.
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