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A bill for an act
relating to school safety; enhancing school safety plans; modifying student
discipline provisions; enabling anonymous reporting systems; increasing safe
schools revenue; modifying the school building and cybersecurity grant program;
requiring reports; transferring money; canceling an appropriation; appropriating
money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 121A.425, subdivision 1;
126C.44; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 124D.901, subdivision 4;
Laws 2023, chapter 55, article 8, section 19, subdivision 2; proposing coding for
new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 121A; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024,
section 121A.425, subdivision 2.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
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[121A.036] SCHOOL SAFETY PLANS.
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Subdivision 1.
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Minnesota School Safety Center.
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(a) The Minnesota School Safety
Center must:
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(1) develop an evidence-based model school safety plan for use by school boards;
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(2) develop criteria to determine whether a school safety plan is evidence-based;
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(3) review local school safety plans and notify school boards whether their school safety
plans meet the requirements of this section;
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(4) assess whether school facility improvements intended to improve school safety are
evidence-based;
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(5) administer grants for implementing evidence-based school safety plans, to the extent
grant money is available; and
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(6) prepare a report that identifies the schools that have adopted an evidence-based
school safety plan and post the report on the Department of Public Safety's publicly facing
website. The Minnesota School Safety Center must submit the report to the legislative
committees with jurisdiction over public safety and kindergarten through grade 12 education.
The Minnesota School Safety Center must update the report by December 1, 2028, and
every two years thereafter.
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(b) The Minnesota School Safety Center may provide consulting services to schools
serving students in kindergarten through grade 12 to develop, improve, or implement an
evidence-based school safety plan.
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(c) The Minnesota School Safety Center must consult with at least two school mental
health professionals to implement the requirements of this section. Each mental health
professional must be a licensed school psychologist, licensed school social worker, or
licensed school counselor. The Minnesota School Safety Center may also consult with the
comprehensive school mental health services lead at the Department of Education under
section 127A.215.
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Subd. 2.
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Model plan.
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(a) The Minnesota School Safety Center, in consultation with the
Department of Education, must maintain and make available to school boards and charter
schools an evidence-based model school safety plan to prevent human-caused safety
incidents.
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(b) For purposes of this section and section 121A.0361, "evidence-based" means an
activity, strategy, or intervention that:
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(1) demonstrates a statistically significant effect on improving student outcomes or other
relevant outcomes based on:
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(i) strong evidence from at least one well-designed and well-implemented experimental
study;
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(ii) moderate evidence from at least one well-designed and well-implemented
quasi-experimental study; or
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(iii) promising evidence from at least one well-designed and well-implemented
correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias; or
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(2)(i) demonstrates a rationale based on high-quality research findings or positive
evaluation that the activity, strategy, or intervention is likely to improve relevant student
outcomes or other relevant outcomes; and
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(ii) includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of the activity, strategy, or intervention.
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(c) The Minnesota School Safety Center must post the model plan on its website no later
than September 1, 2026. The Minnesota School Safety Center may make evidence-based
school safety plans developed by third parties available to school boards.
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Local school safety plan.
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(a) A school board of a district or charter school may
adopt an evidence-based school safety plan to prevent human-caused safety incidents that
meets the minimum requirements of the model plan developed under subdivision 1. A school
safety plan may include a crisis management policy under section 121A.035. A school board
that adopts a plan must submit the plan to the Minnesota School Safety Center no later than
May 1, 2028, and subsequent plans upon adoption by the following May 1.
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(b) A nonpublic school is encouraged to develop an evidence-based school safety plan
and consult with the Minnesota School Safety Center on evidence-based approaches to
improve school safety.
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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[121A.0361] ANONYMOUS THREAT REPORTING SYSTEM.
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Subdivision 1.
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Definition; evidence-based.
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For purposes of this section, "evidence-based"
has the meaning given in section 121A.036, subdivision 2.
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Subd. 2.
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Local anonymous threat reporting system.
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(a) A school district or charter
school is encouraged to implement a local anonymous threat reporting system. A local
anonymous threat reporting system must:
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(1) support anonymous reporting 24 hours a day using a mobile application and a
multilingual crisis center at a minimum;
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(2) include crisis centers staffed by persons with evidence-based counseling and crisis
intervention training;
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(3) promptly forward reported information to the appropriate school-based team;
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(4) support a coordinated response by schools, 911 telecommunicators, and sworn law
enforcement to an identified crisis when response by schools and sworn law enforcement
is to be reasonably expected to ensure public safety and welfare;
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(5) require and certify the training of a school-based team in each school to receive
notice of any report submitted through the anonymous threat reporting system concerning
the school, school personnel, or an enrolled student;
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(6) promote public awareness and education about the anonymous threat reporting system
and reporting methods before launching the system;
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(7) implement an evidence-based student violence prevention training that teaches
students how to identify observable warning signs and signals of an individual who may be
at risk of self-harm, the importance of taking threats seriously and seeking help, and how
to use the anonymous threat reporting system to report a person who is at risk of self-harm;
and
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(8) comply with data practices under chapter 13 and the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act of 1974, United States Code, title 20, section 1232g.
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(b) A school that implements its own system may enter into a contract to develop and
implement an anonymous threat reporting system that meets the requirements of this
subdivision.
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(c) In addition to the system requirements under paragraph (a), a third party providing
a local anonymous threat reporting system to a school must establish:
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(1) a website to educate students on the availability of the anonymous threat reporting
system and provide guidance on how and when to use the system; and
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(2) a toll-free hotline that can be used to provide anonymous tips regarding dangerous,
violent, threatening, harmful, or potentially harmful activity that occurs, or is threatened
on, school property or relates to an enrolled student or school personnel.
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(d) A district or charter school that establishes a local anonymous threat reporting system
must form a school-based team at each school site comprised of at least three school
employees.
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(e) A nonpublic school may implement a local anonymous threat reporting system but
is not subject to the requirements of this subdivision.
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(f) A district or charter school must report the following information to the Department
of Education, in the form and manner determined by the commissioner:
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(1) whether the district or charter school has implemented a local anonymous threat
reporting system, and if so:
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(i) the third party that provided the system;
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(ii) contact information for each school-based team; and
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(iii) the number of reports received through the local anonymous threat reporting system,
how the reports were received, and the number of false reports received; and
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(2) whether the district or charter school has notified students, families, employees, and
community members with information about the statewide anonymous threat reporting
system under subdivision 3.
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Subd. 3.
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Statewide anonymous threat reporting system.
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A district or charter school
that does not implement its own local anonymous threat reporting system under subdivision
2 is encouraged to provide to students, families, employees, and community members
information about the Department of Public Safety's statewide anonymous threat reporting
system and how to use the system by:
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(1) posting on the district's or charter school's website information about the Department
of Public Safety's statewide anonymous threat reporting system;
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(2) including information in the student handbook about the Department of Public Safety's
statewide anonymous threat reporting system; and
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(3) notifying parents annually of the availability of the Department of Public Safety's
statewide anonymous threat reporting system.
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Subd. 4.
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Department of Education.
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(a) By September 1, 2027, the Department of
Education must, in collaboration with the Department of Public Safety, provide a list of
third parties that provide anonymous threat reporting systems that meet the requirements
under this section to all schools where a Minnesota resident may fulfill the compulsory
instruction requirements under section 120A.22. The list must include third parties that offer
free or low-cost anonymous threat reporting systems.
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(b) By January 15, 2029, and each year thereafter, the commissioner of education must
submit a report to the legislative committees with jurisdiction over kindergarten through
grade 12 education and public safety that includes the following information:
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(1) the total number of reports received through a local anonymous threat reporting
system for the preceding school year; and
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(2) for all reports received through a local anonymous threat reporting system since July
1, 2026, the following information disaggregated by school site:
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(i) the type of reports received;
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(ii) the method by which the report was received; and
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(iii) the number of false reports received.
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Subd. 5.
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Funding sources.
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(a) A district or charter school may accept funding for an
anonymous threat reporting system from public and private sources, including state or
federal funding, that is available to increase school safety. Acceptance of funding from a
public or private source does not abrogate or modify the anonymous threat reporting system
requirements established under this section.
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(b) The Department of Education must use existing resources to meet the requirements
under this section.
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective July 1, 2026.
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Sec. 3.
Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 121A.425, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1.
Disciplinary dismissals prohibited.
(a) A pupil enrolled in the following
is not subject to dismissals under this chapter:
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a preschool or prekindergarten program, including an early childhood family
education, school readiness, school readiness plus, voluntary prekindergarten, Head Start,
or other school-based preschool or prekindergarten program
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.
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(2) kindergarten through grade 3.
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(b) This provision does not apply to a dismissal from school for less than one school
day, except as provided under chapter 125A and federal law for a student receiving special
education services.
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(c) A pupil enrolled in kindergarten through grade 3 may only be dismissed for a period
of up to three school days. The dismissal is not effective until approved by the district
superintendent or person having administrative control of the charter school.
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Notwithstanding this subdivision, expulsions and exclusions may be used
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only
after resources outlined in subdivision 2 have been exhausted, and only
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in circumstances
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safety threat to the child or others.
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective July 1, 2026.
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Sec. 4.
Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 124D.901, subdivision 4, is amended
to read:
Subd. 4.
Allowed uses.
(a) Aid under this section must be used to enhance student
support services by:
(1) increasing new student support services personnel positions;
(2) increasing a current student support services personnel position that is less than 1.0
full-time equivalent to a greater number of service hours; or
(3) making permanent a student support services personnel position hired using onetime
resources.
(b) Cooperative student support personnel aid must be transferred to the intermediate
district or other cooperative unit of which the district is a member and used to hire new
positions for student support services personnel or increase a current position that is less
than 1.0 full-time equivalent to a greater number of service hours or make permanent a
position hired using onetime resources at the intermediate district or cooperative unit.
(c) If a school district, charter school, or cooperative unit does not receive at least two
applications and is not able to hire a new full-time equivalent position with student support
personnel aid or use the aid as otherwise provided under subdivision 4a, the aid may be
used for contracted services from individuals licensed to serve as a school counselor, school
psychologist, school social worker, school nurse, or chemical dependency counselor in
Minnesota.
(d) In addition to the personnel uses authorized under paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) and
subdivision 4a, a district, charter school, or cooperative unit may use up to $5,000 of student
support personnel aid each year for the following purposes:
(1) to cover the costs of providing training or job-embedded coaching; or
(2) to cover the costs of student support personnel travel among school sites operated
by a single district, charter school, or cooperative unit, or among school sites operated by
a cooperative unit's member districts or a group of charter schools.
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(e) In addition to the personnel uses authorized under paragraphs (a) to (d) and subdivision
4a, a school board may adopt a resolution, after allowing for public testimony at a regularly
scheduled board meeting, to allow aid under this section to be used for any of the purposes
in section 126C.44.
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Sec. 5.
Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 126C.44, is amended to read:
126C.44 SAFE SCHOOLS REVENUE.
Subdivision 1.
Safe schools revenue for school districts.
A school district's safe schools
revenue equals
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its safe schools levy
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$68 times the district's adjusted pupil units for the school
year
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Subd. 2.
School district safe schools levy.
A school district's safe schools levy equals
$36 times the district's adjusted pupil units for the school year.
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School district safe schools aid.
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A school district's safe schools aid equals
its safe schools revenue minus its safe schools levy.
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Subd. 3.
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Cooperative unit
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safe schools revenue
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for intermediate school districts
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(a)
A cooperative unit's safe schools revenue equals $35 times the member district's adjusted
pupil units for the school year.
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(b) A cooperative unit's safe schools levy for
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a school district that is a member of an
intermediate school district
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may include in its levy authority under this section the costs
associated with safe schools activities authorized under this section for intermediate school
district programs. This authority must not exceed the product of
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equals
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$15
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times
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the
adjusted pupil units of the member districts. This authority is in addition to any other authority
authorized under this section. Revenue raised
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by this levy
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must be
transferred to the intermediate school district.
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(c) For an intermediate school district, its cooperative unit safe schools aid equals $20
times the member district's adjusted pupil units for the school year.
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(d) For a cooperative unit other than an intermediate school district, a cooperative unit's
safe schools aid equals its safe schools revenue.
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(e) A cooperative unit's safe schools aid must be paid to the cooperative unit in the form
and manner specified by the commissioner.
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(f) For purposes of this section, a school district must designate only one cooperative
unit as the recipient of its cooperative unit state aid in the form and manner specified by the
commissioner.
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(g) For purposes of this section, "cooperative unit" has the meaning given in section
123A.24, subdivision 2.
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Safe schools aid for charter schools.
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For fiscal year 2027 and later, safe
schools aid for a charter school equals $68 times the adjusted pupil units for the school year.
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Safe schools aid for nonpublic schools.
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(a) For fiscal year 2027 and later,
safe schools aid for a nonpublic school equals $68 times the school's enrollment for the
school year.
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(b) A nonpublic school must report enrollment and other necessary information to the
commissioner in the form and manner specified by the commissioner. The commissioner
must establish a payment schedule for safe schools aid for nonpublic schools.
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(c) For purposes of this section, "nonpublic school" has the meaning given in section
123B.41, subdivision 9.
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Subd. 3c.
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Safe schools aid for Tribal contract schools.
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Safe schools aid for a Tribal
contract school eligible for aid under section 124D.83 equals $68 times the pupil units for
the school year calculated under section 124D.83, subdivision 2.
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Subd. 4.
Use of safe schools revenue.
(a) Safe schools revenue must be reserved and
used for directly funding the following purposes or for reimbursing the cities and counties
who contract with the
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district
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school
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for the following purposes:
(1) to pay the costs incurred for the salaries, benefits, and transportation costs of peace
officers and sheriffs for liaison in services in the
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school
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;
(2) to pay the costs for a drug abuse prevention program as defined in section
609.101,
subdivision 3
, paragraph (e), in the elementary
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school
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(3) to pay the costs for a gang resistance education training curriculum in the
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district's
schools
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school
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(4) to pay the costs for security in the
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district's schools
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school
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and on school property;
(5) to pay the costs for other crime prevention, drug abuse, student and staff safety,
voluntary opt-in suicide prevention tools, and violence prevention measures taken by the
school
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;
(6) to pay costs for licensed school counselors, licensed school nurses, licensed school
social workers, licensed school psychologists, and licensed alcohol and substance use
disorder counselors to help provide early responses to problems;
(7) to pay for facility
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, students, and staff
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security enhancements including laminated
glass, public announcement systems, emergency communications devices, and equipment
and facility modifications related to violence prevention and facility security;
(8) to pay for costs associated with improving the school climate;
(9) to pay costs for colocating and collaborating with mental health professionals who
are not
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district
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school
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employees or contractors
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or for school-linked mental health services
delivered by telehealth
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; or
(10) to pay for the costs of cybersecurity measures, including updating computer hardware
and software, other systems upgrades, and cybersecurity insurance costs.
(b) For expenditures under paragraph (a), clause (1), the
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school
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district must initially
attempt to contract for services to be provided by peace officers or sheriffs with the police
department of each city or the sheriff's department of the county within the district containing
the school receiving the services. If a local police department or a county sheriff's department
does not wish to provide the necessary services, the district may contract for these services
with any other police or sheriff's department located entirely or partially within the school
district's boundaries.
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective for revenue for fiscal year 2027 and later.
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Sec. 6.
Laws 2023, chapter 55, article 8, section 19, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2.
Building and cybersecurity grant program.
(a) To provide grants to school
districts
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,
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charter schools
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, nonpublic schools, and Tribal contract schools
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to improve
building security and cybersecurity:
$
24,332,000
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2024
$
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2025
(b) A cooperative unit, school district,
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charter school
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, nonpublic school as defined in
Minnesota Statutes, section 123B.41, subdivision 9, or Tribal contract school eligible for
funding under Minnesota Statutes, section 124D.83,
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may apply for a grant in the form and
manner specified by the commissioner.
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If grants from the 2024 appropriation have not yet
been awarded as of the effective date of this section, the commissioner may reopen the grant
application process, adjust preliminary grant amounts, and award additional grants.
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(c) Funds may be used for security-related facility improvements, cybersecurity insurance
premiums, and associated costs.
(d) Up to $100,000 is available for grant administration and monitoring.
(e) This is a onetime appropriation and is available until June 30,
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2029
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective the day following enactment.
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Sec. 7.
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SCHOOL SAFETY FACILITY GRANTS.
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Subdivision 1.
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School safety facility grants.
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(a) The commissioner of education may
award school safety facility grants to qualifying schools to enhance school safety for students
and staff.
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(b) For purposes of this section, "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.
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(c) A school safety facility grant must be used for school facility security improvements
authorized under Minnesota Statutes, section 126C.44, subdivision 4, paragraph (a), clause
(7).
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Subd. 2.
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Application.
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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 other sources of funding, if any, that will be used
to fully fund the school safety project.
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Subd. 3.
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Grant awards.
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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 of
education 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.
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Subd. 4.
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Grant disbursal.
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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.
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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Sec. 8.
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APPROPRIATION CANCELLATION.
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$50,000,000 of the appropriation in Laws 2023, chapter 68, article 1, section 2,
subdivision 2, paragraph (d), as amended by Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 8,
article 1, section 13, for capital improvements and betterments for the Minneapolis-Duluth
Northern Lights Express intercity passenger rail project is canceled on the effective date of
this section.
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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Sec. 9.
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APPROPRIATIONS; SCHOOL SAFETY.
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Subdivision 1.
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Department of Education.
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The sums indicated in this section are
appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education in the fiscal year
designated.
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Subd. 2.
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Safe schools aid.
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(a) For safe schools aid under Minnesota Statutes, section
126C.44:
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$
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44,588,000
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2027
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(b) The 2027 appropriation includes $0 for 2026 and $44,588,000 for 2027.
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Subd. 3.
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School safety facility grants.
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(a) For school safety facility grants under section
7:
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$
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2027
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(b) This is a onetime appropriation.
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(c) This appropriation is available until June 30, 2029.
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Subd. 4.
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Minnesota School Safety Center.
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(a) For transfer to the Department of Public
Safety's Minnesota School Safety Center to develop and distribute an evidence-based model
school safety plan:
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$
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500,000
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2027
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(b) This is a onetime appropriation.
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Subd. 5.
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School-linked behavioral health grants.
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For transfer to the Department of
Human Services for school-linked behavioral health services under Minnesota Statutes,
section 245.4901:
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$
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2027
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Sec. 10.
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REPEALER.
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Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 121A.425, subdivision 2,
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is repealed.
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EFFECTIVE DATE.
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This section is effective July 1, 2026.
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APPENDIX
Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 26-08424
121A.425 FULL AND EQUITABLE PARTICIPATION IN EARLY LEARNING.
Subd. 2.
Nonexclusionary discipline.
For purposes of this section, nonexclusionary discipline must include at least one of the following:
(1) collaborating with the pupil's family or guardian, child mental health consultant or provider, education specialist, or other community-based support;
(2) creating a plan, written with the parent or guardian, that details the action and support needed for the pupil to fully participate in the current educational program, including a preschool or prekindergarten program; or
(3) providing a referral for needed support services, including parenting education, home visits, other supportive education interventions, or, where appropriate, an evaluation to determine if the pupil is eligible for special education services or section 504 services.