1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to emergency medical services; appropriating money for ambulance service 
1.3 	personnel training programs.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.
 1.6 	(a) $250,000 in fiscal year 2021 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.7 	of education for a grant program to fund ambulance service personnel training programs 
1.8 	for secondary school students. A school district may use a grant awarded under this paragraph 
1.9 	to offer an ambulance service personnel training program to secondary school students in 
1.10 	partnership with a postsecondary institution. The program may be offered at the secondary 
1.11 	school or at the postsecondary institution and may include dual enrollment courses for credit 
1.12 	or be offered for no credit. The commissioner must award 80 percent of the grant funds to 
1.13 	school districts with an administrative office outside the seven-county metropolitan area.
1.14 	(b) $100,000 in fiscal year 2021 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.15 	of education for a grant program to school districts for first aid, cardiopulmonary 
1.16 	resuscitation, and other ambulance service personnel training programs offered through 
1.17 	school district community education programs. The commissioner must award 80 percent 
1.18 	of the grant funds to school districts with an administrative office outside the seven-county 
1.19 	metropolitan area.
1.20 	(c) $150,000 in fiscal year 2021 is appropriated from the general fund to the Board of 
1.21 	Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities to expand or supplement 
1.22 	ambulance service personnel training programs offered at state colleges.