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HF3939 • 2026

Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.

Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Bierman, Curran, Falconer, Tabke, Stephenson, Baker, Reyer, Nadeau, Hanson, J., Clardy, Youakim, Freiberg, Lee, X., Bahner, Virnig, Luger-Nikolai, Keeler, Rehrauer, Greenman, Johnson, P., Pursell
Last action
2026-03-23
Official status
Author added Pursell
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.

Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.

What This Bill Does

  • Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-23 House

    Author added Pursell

  2. 2026-03-16 House

    Author added Johnson, P.

  3. 2026-03-05 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to health; appropriating money for a grant to Helping Paws to breed, train,

and place service dogs.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.
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HELPING PAWS; APPROPRIATIONS.
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Subdivision 1.

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General fund.

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$200,000 in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the

general fund to the commissioner of health for a grant to Helping Paws, Inc., to breed, train,

and place service or facility dogs with individuals who have physical disabilities; veterans

and first responders living with service-related post-traumatic stress disorder; and

professionals in courthouse, educational, and mental health settings. This is a onetime

honorarium appropriation in memory of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.

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Subd. 2.

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Private donations.

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The commissioner of health may accept private donations

to supplement the state money appropriated under subdivision 1. All money accepted by

the commissioner under this subdivision must be deposited in a dedicated account in the

special revenue fund and is appropriated to the commissioner for purposes of this section.

The account expires on July 1, 2028.

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