1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to workforce development; appropriating money
1.3 	for youth programs; modifying youth intervention
1.4 	program requirements; amending Minnesota Statutes
1.5 	2004, section 116L.30.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 116L.30, is
1.8 	amended to read:
1.9 	116L.30 GRANTS-IN-AID TO YOUTH INTERVENTION PROGRAMS.
1.10 		Subdivision 1.Grants. The commissioner may make grants
1.11 	to nonprofit agencies administering youth intervention programs
1.12 	in communities where the programs are or may be established.
1.13 	"Youth intervention program" means a nonresidential
1.14 	community-based program providing advocacy, education,
1.15 	counseling, mentoring,and referral services to youth and their
1.16 	families experiencing personal, familial, school, legal, or
1.17 	chemical problems with the goal of resolving the present
1.18 	problems and preventing the occurrence of the problems in the
1.19 	future. The intent of the youth intervention program is to
1.20 	provide an ongoing stable funding source to community-based
1.21 	early intervention programs for youth.  Program design may be
1.22 	different for the grantees depending on youth service needs of
1.23 	the communities being served.
1.24 		Subd. 2.Applications. Applications for a grant-in-aid
1.25 	shall be made by the administering agency to the commissioner.
2.1 	The grant-in-aid is contingent upon the agency having obtained
2.2 	from the community in which the youth intervention program is
2.3 	established local matching money two times the amount of the
2.4 	grant that is sought. The matching requirement is intended to
2.5 	leverage the investment of state and community dollars in
2.6 	supporting the efforts of the grantees to provide early
2.7 	intervention services to youth and their families.
2.8 	The commissioner shall provide the application form,
2.9 	procedures for making application form, criteria for review of
2.10 	the application, and kinds of contributions in addition to cash
2.11 	that qualify as local matching money.  No grant to any agency
2.12 	may exceed $50,000.
2.13 		Subd. 3.Grant allocation formula. Up to one percent of
2.14 	the appropriations to the grants-in-aid to the youth
2.15 	intervention program may be used for a grant to the Minnesota
2.16 	Youth Intervention Programs Association for expenses in
2.17 	providing collaborative training and technical assistance to
2.18 	community-based grantees of the program.
2.19 		Subd. 4.Administrative costs. The commissioner may use
2.20 	up to two percent of the biennial appropriation for
2.21 	grants-in-aid to the youth intervention program to pay costs
2.22 	incurred by the department in administering the youth
2.23 	intervention program.

2.24 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.25 	$2,000,000 in fiscal year 2006 and $2,000,000 in fiscal
2.26 	year 2007 is appropriated from the general fund to the
2.27 	commissioner of employment and economic development for youth
2.28 	intervention programs under Minnesota Statutes, section
2.29 	116L.30.  This money must be used to help existing programs
2.30 	serve unmet needs in their communities, and to create new
2.31 	programs in underserved areas of the state.  This appropriation
2.32 	is part of the department's budget base and is available until
2.33 	expended.