| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to workforce development; requiring annual reports on grantee performance |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 by the commissioner of employment and economic development; proposing coding |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116L. |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 Section 1. [116L.36] GRANTEE EVALUATIONS. |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 (a) Beginning January 15, 2026, and each year thereafter, the commissioner must submit |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8a report on organizations that received grants from the department in the preceding fiscal |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9year to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10jurisdiction over workforce development. |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11 (b) The report required under paragraph (a) must include the following information from |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12each grant recipient: |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13 (1) a summary of the purpose of the grant; |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14 (2) the amount of the grant awarded to the grantee; |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15 (3) the amount of previous grants issued by the department to the grantee; |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16 (4) the amount of other state and federal grants awarded to the grantee in the most recent |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17fiscal year; |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18 (5) the number of Minnesotans served by the organization and, if applicable, completing |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19the organization's job training program; |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20 (6) the number of Minnesotans successfully placed in a living wage job by the |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21organization; |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 23 | 23 | | REVISOR SS/AC 25-0408602/19/25 |
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| 24 | 24 | | State of Minnesota |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Document can be made available |
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| 26 | 26 | | in alternative formats upon request |
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| 27 | 27 | | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 28 | 28 | | H. F. No. 1851 |
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| 29 | 29 | | NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 30 | 30 | | Authored by Johnson, W.,03/03/2025 |
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| 31 | 31 | | The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy 2.1 (7) the placement effectiveness, calculated by dividing the number of Minnesotans |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2.2calculated in clause (6) by the number in clause (5); |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2.3 (8) the cost effectiveness, calculated by dividing the sum of clauses (2) and (4) by the |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.4number of Minnesotans calculated in clause (6); and |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.5 (9) the organization's charitable giving ratio. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2.6 (c) If a grantee uses grant money to provide services to persons who reside outside of |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2.7Minnesota, the grantee must list the states where non-Minnesotan participants reside and |
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| 38 | 38 | | 2.8an explanation of why grant money was used to provide services to non-Minnesota residents. |
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| 39 | 39 | | 2.9 (d) The commissioner is not required to provide information in response to paragraph |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2.10(b), clauses (5) to (8), for a grantee that does not offer programming that requires completion |
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| 41 | 41 | | 2.11or that cannot be measured by objective standards. The commissioner is not required to |
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| 42 | 42 | | 2.12report on information required in paragraph (a) that was not collected by the commissioner |
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| 43 | 43 | | 2.13prior to enactment of this section. |
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| 44 | 44 | | 2Section 1. |
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| 45 | 45 | | REVISOR SS/AC 25-0408602/19/25 |
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