Minnesota HF 785: Amount available for supplemental nonprofit security grants increased, ongoing funding for supplemental nonprofit security grants provided, security training grant established, and money appropriated.

Status: Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy (as of 2023-01-25)

State: Minnesota · Session: 2023-2024 · Bill: HF 785

Subjects: Public Safety Department

Sponsors: Noor, Hornstein

Bill Text

1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to public safety; increasing the amount available for supplemental nonprofit
1.3 security grants; providing ongoing funding for supplemental nonprofit security
1.4 grants; establishing a security training grant; appropriating money; amending Laws
1.5 2021, First Special Session chapter 11, article 1, section 14, subdivisions 1, 2.
1.6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.7 Section 1. Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 11, article 1, section 14, subdivision
1.8 1, is amended to read:
213,005,000
213,230,000$214,167,000$1,439,000$
1.9 Subdivision 1.Total
1.10 Appropriation
1.11 127,621,000
127,846,000128,764,0001,439,0001.12 General
14,891,00014,901,0001.13 Special Revenue
103,000103,000
1.14 State Government
1.15 Special Revenue
73,00073,0001.16 Environmental
2,429,0002,429,0001.17 Trunk Highway
67,888,00067,897,0001.18 911 Fund
1.19 The amounts that may be spent for each
1.20 purpose are specified in the following
1.21 subdivisions.
1.22 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective retroactively from June 30, 2022.
1Section 1.
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State of Minnesota
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 785
NINETY-THIRD SESSION
Authored by Noor and Hornstein01/25/2023
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy

2.1 Sec. 2. Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 11, article 1, section 14, subdivision 2,
2.2 is amended to read:
2.3 3,156,000
3,381,0003,000,0002.4 Subd. 2.Emergency Management
2.5 Appropriations by Fund
2.6 3,083,000
3,308,0002,927,0002.7 General
73,00073,0002.8 Environmental
2.9 (a) Supplemental Nonprofit Security Grants
2.10 $225,000 each the first year is and $450,000
2.11 the second year are for supplemental nonprofit
2.12 security grants under this paragraph.
2.13 Nonprofit organizations whose applications
2.14 for funding through the Federal Emergency
2.15 Management Agency's nonprofit security grant
2.16 program have been approved by the Division
2.17 of Homeland Security and Emergency
2.18 Management are eligible for grants under this
2.19 paragraph. No additional application shall be
2.20 required for grants under this paragraph, and
2.21 an application for a grant from the federal
2.22 program is also an application for funding
2.23 from the state supplemental program.
2.24 Eligible organizations may receive grants of
2.25 up to $75,000, except that the total received
2.26 by any individual from both the federal
2.27 nonprofit security grant program and the state
2.28 supplemental nonprofit security grant program
2.29 shall not exceed $75,000. Grants shall be
2.30 awarded in an order consistent with the
2.31 ranking given to applicants for the federal
2.32 nonprofit security grant program. No grants
2.33 under the state supplemental nonprofit security
2.34 grant program shall be awarded until the
2.35 announcement of the recipients and the
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3.1 amount of the grants awarded under the federal
3.2 nonprofit security grant program.
3.3 The commissioner may use up to one percent
3.4 of the appropriation received under this
3.5 paragraph to pay costs incurred by the
3.6 department in administering the supplemental
3.7 nonprofit security grant program. These
3.8 appropriations are onetime.
3.9 (b) School Safety Center
3.10 $250,000 each year is for two school safety
3.11 specialists at the Minnesota School Safety
3.12 Center.
3.13 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
3.14 Sec. 3. SECURITY TRAINING GRANT.
3.15 $50,000 in fiscal year 2024 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner
3.16 of public safety for a grant to a nonprofit organization with experience promoting the security
3.17 of nonprofit and interfaith organizations. The grant recipient shall work with faith-based
3.18 institutions, including churches, synagogues, and mosques, to provide training to address
3.19 emergency situations that involve an immediate threat to the lives or safety of individuals
3.20 at those faith-based institutions. Money shall be used exclusively to contract with one or
3.21 more experts to provide the training, and the training shall be provided at no additional cost
3.22 to the faith-based institutions.
3Sec. 3.
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