Time extension to use certain grant funds

A bill for an act

relating to public safety; extending the time to use certain grant funds; amending

Laws 2023, chapter 52, article 2, section 3, subdivision 8, as amended.

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

Section 1.

Laws 2023, chapter 52, article 2, section 3, subdivision 8, as amended by Laws

2023, chapter 69, section 12, Laws 2024, chapter 123, article 1, section 11, Laws 2024,

chapter 123, article 9, section 3, and Laws 2025, chapter 35, article 2, section 24, is amended

to read:

Subd. 8.

Office of Justice Programs

94,758,000

80,434,000

Appropriations by Fund

General

94,662,000

80,338,000

State Government

Special Revenue

96,000

96,000

(a)
Domestic and Sexual Violence Housing

$1,500,000 each year is to establish a

Domestic Violence Housing First grant

program to provide resources for survivors of

violence to access safe and stable housing and

for staff to provide mobile advocacy and

expertise in housing resources in their

community and a Minnesota Domestic and

Sexual Violence Transitional Housing

program to develop and support medium to

long term transitional housing for survivors

of domestic and sexual violence with

supportive services. The base for this

appropriation is $1,000,000 beginning in fiscal

year 2026.

(b)
Federal Victims of Crime Funding Gap

$11,000,000 each year is to fund services for

victims of domestic violence, sexual assault,

child abuse, and other crimes. This is a

onetime appropriation.

(c)
Office for Missing and Murdered Black

Women and Girls

$1,248,000 each year is to establish and

maintain the Minnesota Office for Missing

and Murdered Black Women and Girls.

(d)
Increased Staffing

$667,000 the first year and $1,334,000 the

second year are to increase staffing in the

Office of Justice Programs for grant

monitoring and compliance; provide training

and technical assistance to grantees and

potential grantees; conduct community

outreach and engagement to improve the

experiences and outcomes of applicants, grant

recipients, and crime victims throughout

Minnesota; expand the Minnesota Statistical

Analysis Center; and increase staffing for the

crime victim reimbursement program and the

Crime Victim Justice Unit.

(e)
Office of Restorative Practices

$500,000 each year is to establish and

maintain the Office of Restorative Practices.

(f)
Crossover and Dual-Status Youth Model

Grants

$1,000,000 each year is to provide grants to

local units of government to initiate or expand

crossover youth practices model and

dual-status youth programs that provide

services for youth who are involved with or

at risk of becoming involved with both the

child welfare and juvenile justice systems, in

accordance with the Robert F. Kennedy

National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice

model. This is a onetime appropriation.
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This

appropriation is available until December 31,

2026.
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(g)
Restorative Practices Initiatives Grants

$4,000,000 each year is for grants to establish

and support restorative practices initiatives

pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section

299A.95, subdivision 6
, and for a restitution

grant program under Minnesota Statutes,

section
299A.955
. This appropriation is

available until June 30, 2026. The base for this

appropriation is $2,500,000 beginning in fiscal

year 2026.

(h)
Ramsey County Youth Treatment

Homes Acquisition and Betterment

$5,000,000 the first year is for a grant to

Ramsey County to establish, with input from

community stakeholders, including impacted

youth and families, up to seven intensive

trauma-informed therapeutic treatment homes

in Ramsey County that are licensed by the

Department of Human Services, that are

culturally specific, that are community-based,

and that can be secured. These residential

spaces must provide intensive treatment and

intentional healing for youth as ordered by the

court as part of the disposition of a case in

juvenile court. This appropriation is available

through June 30, 2027.

(i)
Ramsey County Violence Prevention

$5,000,000 the first year is for a grant to

Ramsey County to award grants to develop

new and further enhance existing

community-based organizational support

through violence prevention and community

wellness grants. Grantees must use the money

to create family support groups and resources

to support families during the time a young

person is placed out of home following a

juvenile delinquency adjudication and support

the family through the period of postplacement

reentry; create community-based respite

options for conflict or crisis de-escalation to

prevent incarceration or further systems

involvement for families; or establish

additional meaningful employment

opportunities for systems-involved youth. This

appropriation is available through June 30,

2027.

(j)
Office for Missing and Murdered

Indigenous Relatives

$274,000 each year is for increased staff and

operating costs of the Office for Missing and

Murdered Indigenous Relatives, the Missing

and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Advisory

Board, and the Gaagige-Mikwendaagoziwag

reward advisory group.

(k)
Youth Intervention Programs

$3,525,000 the first year and $3,526,000 the

second year are for youth intervention

programs under Minnesota Statutes, section

299A.73
. The base for this appropriation is

$3,526,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $3,525,000

in fiscal year 2027.

(l)
Community Crime Intervention and

Prevention Grants

$750,000 each year is for community crime

intervention and prevention program grants,

authorized under Minnesota Statutes, section

299A.296
. This is a onetime appropriation.

(m)
Resources for Victims of Crime

$1,000,000 each year is for general crime

victim grants to meet the needs of victims of

crime not covered by domestic violence,

sexual assault, or child abuse services. This is

a onetime appropriation.

(n)
Prosecutor Training

$100,000 each year is for a grant to the

Minnesota County Attorneys Association to

be used for prosecutorial and law enforcement

training, including trial school training and

train-the-trainer courses. All training funded

with grant proceeds must contain blocks of

instruction on racial disparities in the criminal

justice system, collateral consequences to

criminal convictions, and trauma-informed

responses to victims. This is a onetime

appropriation.

The Minnesota County Attorneys Association

must report to the chairs and ranking minority

members of the legislative committees with

jurisdiction over public safety policy and

finance on the training provided with grant

proceeds, including a description of each

training and the number of prosecutors and

law enforcement officers who received

training. The report is due by February 15,

2025. The report may include trainings

scheduled to be completed after the date of

submission with an estimate of expected

participants.

(o)
Minnesota Heals

$500,000 each year is for the Minnesota Heals

grant program. This is a onetime

appropriation.

(p)
Sexual Assault Exam Costs

$3,967,000 the first year and $3,767,000 the

second year are to reimburse qualified health

care providers for the expenses associated with

medical examinations administered to victims

of criminal sexual conduct as required under

Minnesota Statutes, section
609.35
, and for

costs to administer the program. The base for

this appropriation is $3,771,000 in fiscal year

2026 and $3,776,000 in fiscal year 2027.

(q)
First Responder Mental Health

Curriculum

$75,000 each year is for a grant to the Adler

graduate school. The grantee must use the

grant to develop a curriculum for a 24-week

certificate to train licensed therapists to

understand the nuances, culture, and stressors

of the work environments of first responders

to allow those therapists to provide effective

treatment to first responders in distress. The

grantee must collaborate with first responders

who are familiar with the psychological,

cultural, and professional issues of their field

to develop the curriculum and promote it upon

completion.

The grantee may provide the program online.

The grantee must seek to recruit additional

participants from outside the 11-county

metropolitan area.

The grantee must create a resource directory

to provide law enforcement agencies with

names of counselors who complete the

program and other resources to support law

enforcement professionals with overall

wellness. The grantee shall collaborate with

the Department of Public Safety and law

enforcement organizations to promote the

directory. This is a onetime appropriation.

(r)
Pathways to Policing

$400,000 each year is for reimbursement

grants to state and local law enforcement

agencies that operate pathway to policing

programs. Applicants for reimbursement

grants may receive up to 50 percent of the cost

of compensating and training program

participants. Reimbursement grants shall be

proportionally allocated based on the number

of grant applications approved by the

commissioner. This is a onetime appropriation.

(s)
Direct Assistance to Crime Victim

Survivors

$5,000,000 each year is to provide grants for

direct services and advocacy for victims of

sexual assault, general crime, domestic

violence, and child abuse. Funding must

support the direct needs of organizations

serving victims of crime by providing: direct

client assistance to crime victims; competitive

wages for direct service staff; hotel stays and

other housing-related supports and services;

culturally responsive programming; prevention

programming, including domestic abuse

transformation and restorative justice

programming; and for other needs of

organizations and crime victim survivors.

Services funded must include services for

victims of crime in underserved communities

most impacted by violence and reflect the

ethnic, racial, economic, cultural, and

geographic diversity of the state. The office

shall prioritize culturally specific programs,

or organizations led and staffed by persons of

color that primarily serve communities of

color, when allocating funds.

(t)
Racially Diverse Youth

$250,000 each year is for grants to

organizations to address racial disparity of

youth using shelter services in the Rochester

and St. Cloud regional areas. Of this amount,

$125,000 each year is to address this issue in

the Rochester area and $125,000 each year is

to address this issue in the St. Cloud area. A

grant recipient shall establish and operate a

pilot program connected to shelter services to

engage in community intervention outreach,

mobile case management, family reunification,

aftercare, and follow up when family members

are released from shelter services. A pilot

program must specifically address the high

number of racially diverse youth that enter

shelters in the regions. This is a onetime

appropriation.

(u)
Violence Prevention Project Research

Center

$500,000 each year is for a grant to the

Violence Prevention Project Research Center,

operating as a 501(c)(3) organization, for

research focused on reducing violence in

society that uses data and analysis to improve

criminal justice-related policy and practice in

Minnesota. Research must place an emphasis

on issues related to deaths and injuries

involving firearms. This is a onetime

appropriation.

Beginning January 15, 2025, the Violence

Prevention Project Research Center must

submit an annual report to the chairs and

ranking minority members of the legislative

committees with jurisdiction over public safety

policy and finance on its work and findings.

The report must include a description of the

data reviewed, an analysis of that data, and

recommendations to improve criminal

justice-related policy and practice in

Minnesota with specific recommendations to

address deaths and injuries involving firearms.

(v)
Report on Approaches to Address Illicit

Drug Use in Minnesota

$118,000 each year is to enter into an

agreement with Rise Research LLC for a study

and set of reports on illicit drug use in

Minnesota describing current responses to that

use, reviewing alternative approaches utilized

in other jurisdictions, and making policy and

funding recommendations for a holistic and

effective response to illicit drug use and the

illicit drug trade. The agreement must establish

a budget and schedule with clear deliverables.

This appropriation is onetime.

The study must include a review of current

policies, practices, and funding; identification

of alternative approaches utilized effectively

in other jurisdictions; and policy and funding

recommendations for a response to illicit drug

use and the illicit drug trade that reduces and,

where possible, prevents harm and expands

individual and community health, safety, and

autonomy. Recommendations must consider

impacts on public safety, racial equity,

accessibility of health and ancillary supportive

social services, and the intersections between

drug policy and mental health, housing and

homelessness, overdose and infectious disease,

child welfare, and employment.

Rise Research may subcontract and coordinate

with other organizations or individuals to

conduct research, provide analysis, and

prepare the reports required by this section.

Rise Research shall submit reports to the

chairs and ranking minority members of the

legislative committees with jurisdiction over

public safety finance and policy, human

services finance and policy, health finance and

policy, and judiciary finance and policy. Rise

Research shall submit an initial report by

February 15, 2024, and a final report by March

1, 2025.

(w)
Legal Representation for Children

$150,000 each year is for a grant to an

organization that provides legal representation

for children in need of protection or services

and children in out-of-home placement. The

grant is contingent upon a match in an equal

amount from nonstate funds. The match may

be in kind, including the value of volunteer

attorney time, in cash, or a combination of the

two. These appropriations are in addition to

any other appropriations for the legal

representation of children. This appropriation

is onetime.

(x)
Pretrial Release Study and Report

$250,000 each year are for a grant to the

Minnesota Justice Research Center to study

and report on pretrial release practices in

Minnesota and other jurisdictions, including

but not limited to the use of bail as a condition

of pretrial release. This appropriation is

onetime.

(y)
Intensive Comprehensive Peace Officer

Education and Training Program

$5,000,000 the first year is to implement the

intensive comprehensive peace officer

education and training program described in

Minnesota Statutes, section
626.8516
. This

appropriation is available through June 30,

2027.

(z)
Youth Services Office

$250,000 each year is to operate the Youth

Services Office.