1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; increasing student support personnel aid; 
1.3 	appropriating money;amending Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 
1.4 	124D.901, subdivision 3; Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 10, article 3, 
1.5 	section 15, subdivision 13.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 124D.901, subdivision 3, is 
1.8 	amended to read:
1.9 		Subd. 3.Student support personnel aid. (a) The initial student support personnel aid 
1.10 	for an independent or special school district equals the greater of the student support 
1.11 	personnel allowance times the adjusted pupil units at the district for the current fiscal year 
1.12 	or $40,000. The initial student support personnel aid for a charter school equals the greater 
1.13 	of the student support personnel allowance times the adjusted pupil units at the charter 
1.14 	school for the current fiscal year or $20,000. Aid under this paragraph must be reserved in 
1.15 	a fund balance that, beginning in fiscal year 2025, may not exceed the greater of the aid 
1.16 	entitlement in the prior fiscal year or the fund balance in the prior fiscal year.
1.17 	(b) The cooperative student support personnel aid for an independent or special school 
1.18 	district that is a member of an intermediate school district or other cooperative unit that 
1.19 	serves students equals the greater of the cooperative student support allowance times the 
1.20 	adjusted pupil units at the district for the current fiscal year or $40,000. If a district is a 
1.21 	member of more than one cooperative unit that serves students, the revenue must be allocated 
1.22 	among the cooperative units. Aid under this paragraph must not exceed actual expenditures.
2.1 	(c) The student support personnel allowance equals $17.08 for fiscal year 2025, $30.05
2.2 	and $48.73 for fiscal years year 2026 and 2027, and $34.32 for fiscal year 2028 and later.
2.3 	(d) The cooperative student support allowance equals $0.85 for fiscal year 2025 and 
2.4 	$1.60 $2.44 for fiscal year 2026 and later.

2.5 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

2.6 	Sec. 2. Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 10, article 3, section 15, subdivision 13, 
2.7 	is amended to read:
2.8 		Subd. 13.Student support personnel aid. (a) For student support personnel aid under 
2.9 	Minnesota Statutes, section 124D.901:

2.112.10
		$
	44,950,000
.......
	.....
	2026
	
2.132.12
		$
	45,772,000
.......
	.....
	2027
	
2.14 	(b) The 2026 appropriation includes $3,655,000 for fiscal year 2025 and $41,295,000
2.15 	$....... for fiscal year 2026.
2.16 	(c) The 2027 appropriation includes $4,588,000 $....... for fiscal year 2026 and 
2.17 	$41,184,000 $....... for fiscal year 2027.

2.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.