New laws effective as of July 1
The following is a list of select new laws passed during the 2024 legislative session, and one from 2023, that took effect July 1. Economic Development
Law spends $23.85 million to fund job training, economic development
programs
The Department of Employment and Economic Development has an extra $23.85 million to spend on job training and economic development programs in fiscal year 2025. A new law appropriates $12.16 million from the Workforce Development Fund for employment and training programs and $11.69 million from the General Fund for business and community development programs.
Education
Additional K-12 funding; early
childhood, some HHS also included
Education in Minnesota will get a $43 million funding boost in fiscal year 2025, largely to increase student literacy in Minnesota.
The bulk of the new one-time spending — $37.22 million — is directed to the Minnesota Reading to Ensure Academic Development (READ) Act.
The law makes a number of appropriations in fiscal year 2025 to various agencies for purposes related to children and families, including: $9.66 million for information technology improvements to the outdated Social Services Information System used by more than 6,000 workers around the state to track and manage child welfare case work; $3.39 million for emergency services grants; $2.39 million for Minnesota’s regional food banks for purposes of the emergency food assistance program; $2 million for the Minnesota food shelf program; $1.13 million for the child care improvement grant program; $1 million for the American Indian food sovereignty funding program; and $550,000 for the supporting relative caregiver grants program....
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