1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; modifying the funding amounts available to community 
1.3 	action agencies and Indian reservations; appropriating money;amending Minnesota 
1.4 	Statutes 2016, section 256E.30, subdivision 2.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 256E.30, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 2.Allocation of money. (a) State money appropriated and community service 
1.8 	block grant money allotted to the state and all money transferred to the community service 
1.9 	block grant from other block grants shall be allocated annually to community action agencies 
1.10 	and Indian reservation governments under clauses (b) and (c), and to migrant and seasonal 
1.11 	farmworker organizations under clause (d).
1.12 	(b) The available annual money will provide base funding to all community action 
1.13 	agencies and the Indian reservations. Base funding amounts per agency are as follows: for 
1.14 	agencies with low income populations up to 3,999 1,999, $25,000; 4,000 2,000 to 23,999, 
1.15 	$50,000; and 24,000 or more, $100,000.
1.16 	(c) All remaining money of the annual money available after the base funding has been 
1.17 	determined must be allocated to each agency and reservation in proportion to the size of 
1.18 	the poverty level population in the agency's service area compared to the size of the poverty 
1.19 	level population in the state.
1.20 	(d) Allocation of money to migrant and seasonal farmworker organizations must not 
1.21 	exceed three percent of the total annual money available. Base funding allocations must be 
1.22 	made for all community action agencies and Indian reservations that received money under 
2.1 	this subdivision, in fiscal year 1984, and for community action agencies designated under 
2.2 	this section with a service area population of 35,000 or greater.

2.3 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION; COMMUNITY ACTION GRANTS.
 2.4 	$4,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2019 are appropriated from 
2.5 	the general fund to the commissioner of human services for purposes of community action 
2.6 	grants under Minnesota Statutes, sections 256E.30 to 256E.32.