Contingent reduction in special education aid appropriations repealed.

A bill for an act

relating to education finance; repealing the contingent reduction in special education

aid appropriations; amending Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 10, article

7, section 8.

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

Section 1.

Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 10, article 7, section 8, is amended

to read:

Sec. 8.
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DIRECTION TO COMMISSIONER OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET;

CONTINGENT REDUCTION IN
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SPECIAL EDUCATION
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AID APPROPRIATIONS
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RECOMMENDATIONS BY BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION
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.

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(a) When preparing the forecast for state revenues and expenditures under Minnesota

Statutes, section
16A.103
, the commissioner of management and budget must assume a

$250,000,000 reduction in the appropriations for special education aid for the biennium

beginning July 1, 2027, and for each subsequent biennium, until the end of the legislative

session that enacts a budget for the Department of Education for the biennium beginning

July 1, 2027.

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(b)
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Upon enactment of a budget for the Department of Education for the biennium

beginning July 1, 2027, the legislature must identify enacted provisions that were

recommended by or based on the recommendation of the Blue Ribbon Commission on

Special Education.

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(c) To the extent the net savings attributable to the provisions in paragraph (b) are less

than $250,000,000 for the biennium beginning July 1, 2027, and for each subsequent

biennium, the commissioner of education must reduce the special education cross subsidy

aid factor under Minnesota Statutes, section
125A.76, subdivision 2e
, paragraph (b), as

necessary to reduce biennial appropriations for special education aid by an amount equal

to the difference between the savings identified in paragraph (b) and the $250,000,000 of

biennial savings assumed in paragraph (a). The commissioner of education must notify the

chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over

kindergarten through grade 12 education of any reduction in the cross subsidy aid factor

under this paragraph.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective the day following final enactment.

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