1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health; appropriating money for a statewide deaf and hard-of-hearing 
1.3 	mentor program for families of infants and children that have a hearing loss.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	$80,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of human services 
1.7 	for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for the purpose of providing mentors who have a 
1.8 	hearing loss to parents of newly identified infants and children with hearing loss.