1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to public safety; appropriating money for law enforcement training.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; PHILANDO CASTILE MEMORIAL TRAINING 
1.5 	FUND.
 1.6 	$10,000,000 in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the general fund to the Peace Officer 
1.7 	Standards and Training Board to support and strengthen law enforcement training and 
1.8 	implement best practices. This funding shall be named the "Philando Castile Memorial 
1.9 	Training Fund." These funds may only be used to reimburse costs related to training courses 
1.10 	that qualify for reimbursement under Minnesota Statutes, sections 626.8452 (use of force), 
1.11 	626.8469 (training in crisis response, conflict management, and cultural diversity), and 
1.12 	626.8474 (autism training). Each sponsor of a training course is required to include the 
1.13 	following in the sponsor's application for approval submitted to the board: course goals and 
1.14 	objectives; a course outline, including, at a minimum, a timeline and teaching hours for all 
1.15 	courses; instructor qualifications; and a plan for learning assessments of the course and 
1.16 	documenting the assessments to the board during review. Upon completion of each course, 
1.17 	instructors must submit student evaluations of the instructor's teaching to the sponsor. The 
1.18 	board shall keep records of the applications of all approved and denied courses. All 
1.19 	continuing education courses shall be reviewed after the first year. The board must set a 
1.20 	timetable for recurring review after the first year. For each review, the sponsor must submit 
1.21 	its learning assessments to the board to show that the course is teaching the learning outcomes 
1.22 	that were approved by the board. A list of licensees who successfully complete the course 
1.23 	shall be maintained by the sponsor and transmitted to the board following the presentation 
2.1 	of the course and the completed student evaluations of the instructors. Evaluations are 
2.2 	available to chief law enforcement officers. The board shall establish a data retention schedule 
2.3 	for the information collected in this section. Each year, if funds are available after reimbursing 
2.4 	all eligible requests for courses approved by the board under this subdivision, the board 
2.5 	may use the funds to reimburse law enforcement agencies for other board-approved law 
2.6 	enforcement training courses. This is a onetime appropriation.