Housing development fund expenditure provisions modified, and allowed expenditures for the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency repealed.

A bill for an act

relating to housing; modifying certain expenditure provisions of the housing

development fund; repealing certain allowed expenditures for the Minnesota

Housing Finance Agency; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 462A.20,

subdivisions 2, 3; 462A.21, subdivisions 10, 12a; repealing Minnesota Statutes

2024, section 462A.21, subdivisions 3b, 5, 23, 26.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 462A.20, subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Which money in fund.

There shall be paid into the housing development fund:

(1) any moneys
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appropriated
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transferred into
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and made available by the state for the

purposes of the fund;

(2) any moneys which the agency receives in repayment of advances made from the

fund;

(3) any other moneys which may be made available to the agency for the purpose of the

fund from any other source or sources;

(4) all fees and charges collected by the agency;

(5) all interest or other income not required by the provisions of a resolution or indenture

securing notes or bonds to be paid into another special fund.

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 462A.20, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3.

Separate accounts; transfers; limits.

Whenever any money is appropriated
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from the housing development fund
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by the state to the agency solely for a specified purpose

or purposes, the agency shall establish a separate bookkeeping account or accounts in the

housing development fund to record the receipt and disbursement of such money and of the

income, gain, and loss from the investment and reinvestment thereof. Earnings from

investment of any amounts appropriated by the state
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from the housing development fund
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to the agency for a specified purpose or purposes may be aggregated. The costs and expenses

necessary and incidental to the development and operation of all programs funded by state

appropriations may be paid from the aggregated earnings from investments
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from the housing

development fund
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prior to periodic distributions of earnings to separate accounts to be used

for the same purpose as the respective original appropriation. The agency may transfer

unencumbered balances from one appropriated account to another, provided that no money

appropriated for the purpose of agency loan programs may be transferred to an account to

be used for making grants, except that money appropriated for the purpose of section

462A.05, subdivision 14a
, may be transferred for the purpose of section
462A.05, subdivision

15a
.

Sec. 3.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 462A.21, subdivision 10, is amended to read:

Subd. 10.

Certain appropriations available until expended.

Notwithstanding the

repeal of section
462A.26
and the provisions of section
16A.28
or any other law relating to

lapse of an appropriation, the appropriations made
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from the housing development fund
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to

the agency by the legislature
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in 1976 and subsequent years
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are available until fully expended,

and the allocations provided in the appropriations remain in effect. Earnings from investments

of any of the amounts appropriated to the agency are appropriated to the agency to be used

for the same purposes as the respective original appropriations, after payment of the costs

and expenses necessary and incidental to the development and operation of the programs

authorized under this chapter.

Sec. 4.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 462A.21, subdivision 12a, is amended to read:

Subd. 12a.

Program money transfer.

Unencumbered balances of money appropriated
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from the housing development fund
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for the purpose of loans or grants for agency programs

under these subdivisions may be transferred between programs created by these subdivisions

or in accordance with section
462A.20, subdivision 3
.

Sec. 5.
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REPEALER.
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Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 462A.21, subdivisions 3b, 5, 23, and 26,

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are repealed.

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APPENDIX

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 25-03920

462A.21 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND; ADVANCES, USE REPAYMENT.

Subd. 3b.

Capacity building grants.

It may make capacity building grants to nonprofit organizations, local government units, Indian tribes, and Indian tribal organizations to expand their capacity to provide affordable housing and housing-related services. The grants may be used to assess housing needs and to develop and implement strategies to meet those needs, including but not limited to the creation or preservation of affordable housing, prepurchase and postpurchase counseling and associated administrative costs, and the linking of supportive services to the housing. The agency shall adopt rules, policies, and procedures specifying the eligible uses of grant money. Funding priority may be given to those applicants that include low-income persons in their membership, have provided housing-related services to low-income people, and demonstrate a local commitment of local resources, which may include in-kind contributions.

Subd. 5.

Other agency purposes.

It may expend moneys in the fund, not otherwise appropriated, for such other agency purposes as previously enumerated in this chapter as the agency in its discretion shall determine and provide.

Subd. 23.

Rental housing.

The agency may spend money for the purposes of the rental housing program authorized under section
462A.2097
, and may pay the costs and expenses necessary and incidental to the development and operation of the program.

Subd. 26.

Full cycle home ownership services.

The agency may spend money for the purposes of section
462A.209
and may pay the costs and expenses necessary and incidental to the development and operation of the program.