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HF3492 • 2026
Commissioner of education authorized to award school safety facility grants to schools to enhance safety for students and staff, Northern Lights Express funds cancelled, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of education authorized to award school safety facility grants to schools to enhance safety for students and staff, Northern Lights Express funds cancelled, and money appropriated.
Education
Passed Legislature
This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.
Bill History
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2026-02-19
House
Introduction and first reading, referred to Education Finance
Official Summary Text
Commissioner of education authorized to award school safety facility grants to schools to enhance safety for students and staff, Northern Lights Express funds cancelled, and money appropriated.
Current Bill Text
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A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing the commissioner of education to award school safety facility grants to schools to enhance safety for students and staff; canceling funds from the Northern Lights Express; appropriating money. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. new text begin SCHOOL SAFETY FACILITY GRANTS. new text end new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end new text begin School safety facility grants. new text end new text begin (a) The commissioner of education may award school safety facility grants to qualifying schools to enhance school safety for students and staff. new text end new text begin (b) For purposes of this section, a qualifying school means a school operated by a school district, charter school, cooperative unit defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 123A.24, subdivision 2, Tribal contract school, or nonpublic school. new text end new text begin (c) A school safety facility grant must be used for school facility security improvements authorized under section 126C.44, subdivision 4, paragraph (a), clause (7). new text end new text begin Subd. 2. new text end new text begin Application. new text end new text begin A qualifying school may apply for a school safety facility grant in the form and manner specified by the commissioner of education. A qualifying school's application must include information on the other sources of funding, if any, that will be used to fully fund the school safety project. new text end new text begin Subd. 3. new text end new text begin Grant awards. new text end new text begin After consultation with the Department of Public Safety's Minnesota School Safety Center, the commissioner of education may award a school safety facility grant of no more than $500,000 to each qualifying school. The commissioner must prioritize grant applications. At least half of the grants must be awarded to schools with administrative offices located outside of the seven-county metropolitan area. new text end new text begin Subd. 4. new text end new text begin Grant disbursal. new text end new text begin No money for construction may be distributed by the commissioner of education to the grant recipient until bids have been received on 100 percent of the construction documents and satisfactory documentation has been submitted to the commissioner of education indicating the project can be fully completed with money available for the project. new text end new text begin Subd. 5. new text end new text begin Appropriation. new text end new text begin (a) $25,000,000 in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education for school safety facility grants. This appropriation is available until June 30, 2028. new text end new text begin (b) $25,000,000 of the appropriation in Laws 2023, chapter 68, article 1, section 2, subdivision 2, paragraph (d), as amended by Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 8, article 1, section 13, for capital improvements and betterments for the Minneapolis-Duluth Northern Lights Express intercity passenger rail project is canceled on the effective date of this section. new text end new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment. new text end