HF 4926

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 03/14/2024 02:34pm

A bill for an act
relating to workforce development; requiring annual reports on grantee performance
by the commissioner of employment and economic development; proposing coding
for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116L.

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

Section 1.

new text begin [116L.36] GRANTEE EVALUATIONS.
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new text begin (a) Beginning January 15, 2025, and each year thereafter, the commissioner must submit
a report on organizations that received grants from the department in the preceding fiscal
year to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with
jurisdiction over workforce development.
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new text begin (b) The report required under paragraph (a) must include the following information from
each grant recipient:
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new text begin (1) a summary of the purpose of the grant;
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new text begin (2) the amount of the grant awarded to the grantee;
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new text begin (3) the amount of previous grants issued by the department to the grantee;
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new text begin (4) the amount of other state and federal grants awarded to the grantee in the most recent
fiscal year;
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new text begin (5) the number of Minnesotans served by the organization and, if applicable, completing
the organization's job training program;
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new text begin (6) the number of Minnesotans successfully placed in a living wage job by the
organization;
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new text begin (7) the placement effectiveness, calculated by dividing the number of Minnesotans
calculated in clause (6) by the number in clause (5);
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new text begin (8) the cost effectiveness, calculated by dividing the sum of clauses (2) and (4) by the
number of Minnesotans calculated in clause (6); and
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new text begin (9) the organization's charitable giving ratio.
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new text begin (c) If a grantee uses grant money to provide services to persons who reside outside of
Minnesota, the grantee must list the states where non-Minnesotan participants reside and
an explanation of why grant money was used to provide services to non-Minnesota residents.
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new text begin (d) The commissioner is not required to provide information in response to paragraph
(b), clauses (5) to (8) for a grantee that does not offer programming that requires completion
or that cannot be measured by objective standards. The commissioner is not required to
report on information required in paragraph (a) that was not collected by the commissioner
prior to enactment of this section.
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