1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; authorizing a onetime adjustment to a school district's 
1.3 	American Indian education aid; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION AID; ONETIME ADJUSTMENT; 
1.6 	APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Aid adjustment notification. The commissioner of education must notify 
1.8 	any school district that had its American Indian education aid reduced in fiscal years 2020, 
1.9 	2021, and 2022 due to the school's actual expenditures not meeting the school's planned 
1.10 	expenditures under Minnesota Statutes, section 124D.81, subdivision 2a, paragraph (b), 
1.11 	that it may be eligible for a onetime adjustment.
1.12 		Subd. 2.School district action. A school district eligible for an adjustment under 
1.13 	subdivision 1 must apply to the commissioner for the aid in the form and manner determined 
1.14 	by the commissioner. The application must describe the reasons why the district was unable 
1.15 	to spend the full amount of its American Indian education aid in the designated fiscal years, 
1.16 	outline how the district intends to spend the funds in the 2022-2023 school year, and include 
1.17 	approval for the revised spending from the school's American Indian education parent 
1.18 	advisory committee.
1.19 		Subd. 3.Appropriation; American Indian education aid. $....... in fiscal year 2023 
1.20 	is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education to restore American 
1.21 	Indian education aid amounts to school districts that have complied with subdivisions 1 and 
1.22 	2.