1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to housing; establishing a state program to 
  1.3             supplement the federal emergency shelter grant 
  1.4             program; appropriating money; proposing coding for new 
  1.5             law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 268. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [268.3715] [EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS.] 
  1.8      Subdivision 1.  [STATE SUPPLEMENTAL PROGRAM.] A state 
  1.9   emergency shelter grant program is established and shall be 
  1.10  administered by the commissioner of economic security.  The 
  1.11  state emergency shelter grant program is supplemental to the 
  1.12  federal emergency shelter grants program, authorized by title 
  1.13  IV, Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, United States 
  1.14  Code, title 42, section 1137, as amended, and, except as 
  1.15  otherwise provided in this section, shall be administered as 
  1.16  provided under federal law. 
  1.17     Subd. 2.  [CONFLICT OF LAWS.] For the purposes of the state 
  1.18  program, grantees and the commissioner shall comply with the 
  1.19  federal regulations governing the federal emergency shelter 
  1.20  grant program, except that when a state statute or regulation 
  1.21  conflicts with a federal statute or regulation, the state 
  1.22  statute or regulation shall prevail for projects funded by the 
  1.23  state that may operate differently than the federal program. 
  1.24     Subd. 3.  [COLLABORATION REQUIRED.] In administering the 
  1.25  state emergency shelter grants program, the commissioner shall 
  2.1   collaborate with the housing finance agency's family homeless 
  2.2   prevention and assistance program, under section 462A.204, to 
  2.3   make grants for projects that will help reduce the demand for 
  2.4   emergency shelters by preventing homelessness. 
  2.5      Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.6      Subdivision 1.  [ECONOMIC SECURITY.] $....... is 
  2.7   appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of 
  2.8   economic security for the purposes of section 1.  This 
  2.9   appropriation is available until expended. 
  2.10     Subd. 2.  [HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY.] $....... is 
  2.11  appropriated from the general fund to the housing development 
  2.12  fund for the purposes of the family homeless prevention and 
  2.13  assistance program under Minnesota Statutes, section 462A.204.  
  2.14  This appropriation is available until expended.