1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; authorizing a grant to the Lakes Country Service 
1.3 	Cooperative to support its federal instructional level 4 program; appropriating 
1.4 	money.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; LAKES COUNTRY SERVICE COOPERATIVE.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Department of Education. The sum indicated in this section is 
1.8 	appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education in the fiscal year 
1.9 	designated.
1.10 		Subd. 2.Lakes Country Service Cooperative; federal instructional level 4 
1.11 	program. (a) For a grant to support a federal instructional level 4 program operated by the 
1.12 	Lakes Country Service Cooperative:

1.13 | | $ | 3,000,000 | ..... | 2020
1.14 	(b) The grant must be used to reduce the tuition adjustments to resident school districts 
1.15 	during the first two years of the program's operation. Remaining grant funds may be used 
1.16 	for start-up operating costs, reducing subsequent year tuition adjustments, and capital 
1.17 	expenses.
1.18 	(c) Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year. This 
1.19 	is a onetime appropriation.