1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; appropriating money for early childhood literacy 
1.3 	programs;amending Laws 2013, chapter 116, article 3, section 37, subdivision 15.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Laws 2013, chapter 116, article 3, section 37, subdivision 15, is amended to 
1.6 	read:
1.7 		Subd. 15.Early childhood literacy programs. For early childhood literacy 
1.8 	programs under Minnesota Statutes, section 119A.50, subdivision 3:

1.9		$
	4,125,000
	.....
	2014
	
1.10
1.11		$
	4,125,000
 6,125,000
	.....
	2015
	
1.12 	Up to $4,125,000 eachin the first year and $6,125,000 in the second year is for 
1.13 	leveraging federal and private funding to support AmeriCorps members serving in the 
1.14 	Minnesota Reading Corps program established by ServeMinnesota, including costs 
1.15 	associated with the training and teaching of early literacy skills to children age three to 
1.16 	grade 3 and the evaluation of the impact of the program under Minnesota Statutes, sections 
1.17 	124D.38, subdivision 2, and 124D.42, subdivision 6. Up to $2,000,000 in fiscal year 
1.18 	2015 must be used to support priority and focus schools as defined by the Department 
1.19 	of Education and to expand kindergarten programming.
1.20 	Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year.