SF 211

1st Engrossment - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to human services; restoring senior nutrition
funding; providing senior nutrition grants to serve
certain populations; appropriating money.

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

Section 1. new text begin SENIOR NUTRITION FUNDING.
new text end

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Increase in base funding. new text end

new text begin $822,000 is
appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of human
services for the Minnesota Board on Aging for the biennium
ending June 30, 2007, to restore funding for senior nutrition
programs under Minnesota Statutes, section 256.9752. This
funding shall become part of the base funding for senior
nutrition programs for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007.
new text end

new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Targeted grants. new text end

new text begin $200,000 is appropriated from
the general fund to the commissioner of human services for the
Minnesota Board on Aging for the biennium ending June 30, 2007,
to be used to provide two-year grants to senior nutrition
programs to fund innovative methods of delivering services to:
(1) persons facing language or cultural barriers in accessing
services; (2) persons with special diets; (3) persons living in
isolated rural areas; and (4) other hard-to-serve populations.
Grants may be renewed for additional two-year periods, if the
commissioner of human services determines that a grant recipient
has significantly increased access to services for a
hard-to-serve population. This funding shall become part of the
base funding for senior nutrition programs for the biennium
beginning July 1, 2007.
new text end