2000 Minnesota Statutes

     144.395 Tobacco use prevention and local public health 
  endowment fund. 

    Subdivision 1.    Creation.  The tobacco use prevention 
 and local public health endowment fund is created in the state 
 treasury.  The state board of investment shall invest the fund 
 under section 11A.24.  All earnings of the fund must be credited 
 to the fund.  The principal of the fund must be maintained 
 inviolate, except that the principal may be used to make 
 expenditures from the fund for the purposes specified in this 
 section when the market value of the fund falls below 105 
 percent of the cumulative total of the tobacco settlement 
 payments received by the state and credited to the tobacco 
 settlement fund under section 16A.87, subdivision 2.  For 
 purposes of this section, "principal" means an amount equal to 
 the cumulative total of the tobacco settlement payments received 
 by the state and credited to the tobacco settlement fund under 
 section 16A.87, subdivision 2.  

    Subd. 2.    Expenditures.  (a) Up to five percent of the 
 fair market value of the fund on the preceding July 1, must be 
 spent to reduce the human and economic consequences of tobacco 
 use among the youth of this state through state and local 
 tobacco prevention measures and efforts, and for other public 
 health initiatives. 

    (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), on January 1, 2000, up 
 to five percent of the fair market value of the fund is 
 appropriated to the commissioner of health to distribute as 
 grants under section 144.396, subdivisions 5 and 6, in 
 accordance with allocations in paragraph (c), clauses (1) and 
 (2).  Up to $200,000 of this appropriation is available to the 
 commissioner to conduct the statewide assessments described in 
 section 144.396, subdivision 3. 

    (c) Beginning July 1, 2000, and on July 1 of each year 
 thereafter, the money in paragraph (a) is appropriated as 
 follows, except as provided in paragraphs (d) and (e):  

    (1) 67 percent to the commissioner of health to distribute 
 as grants under section 144.396, subdivision 5, to fund 
 statewide tobacco use prevention initiatives aimed at youth; 

    (2) 16.5 percent to the commissioner of health to 
 distribute as grants under section 144.396, subdivision 6, to 
 fund local public health initiatives aimed at tobacco use 
 prevention in coordination with other local health-related 
 efforts to achieve measurable improvements in health among 
 youth; and 

    (3) 16.5 percent to the commissioner of health to 
 distribute in accordance with section 144.396, subdivision 7.  

    (d) A maximum of $150,000 of each annual appropriation to 
 the commissioner of health in paragraphs (b) and (c) may be used 
 by the commissioner for administrative expenses associated with 
 implementing this section. 

    (e) Beginning July 1, 2001, $1,100,000 of each annual 
 appropriation to the commissioner under paragraph (c), clause 
 (1), may be used to provide base level funding for the 
 commissioner's tobacco prevention and control programs and 
 activities.  This appropriation must occur before any other 
 appropriation under this subdivision. 

    Subd. 3.    Sunset.  The tobacco use prevention and 
 local public health endowment fund expires June 30, 2015.  Upon 
 expiration, the commissioner of finance shall transfer the 
 principal and any remaining interest to the general fund.  

    HIST: 1999 c 245 art 11 s 4; 2000 c 392 s 6,7; 2000 c 488 art 
 11 s 4