1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to veterans affairs; requiring reports on grants issued by the commissioner
1.3 of veterans affairs; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter
1.4 197.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. [197.62] GRANTEE REPORTS.
1.7 (a) Beginning January 15, 2026, and each year thereafter, the commissioner of veterans
1.8affairs must submit a report on organizations that received grants from the agency in the
1.9preceding fiscal year to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative
1.10committees with jurisdiction over veterans affairs policy and finance.
1.11 (b) The report required under paragraph (a) must include the following information for
1.12each grantee:
1.13 (1) a summary of the purpose of the grant;
1.14 (2) the grant amount provided to the grantee;
1.15 (3) the amount of previous grants issued by the commissioner to the grantee;
1.16 (4) the amount of other state and federal grants received by the grantee in the most recent
1.17fiscal year;
1.18 (5) the number of veterans and active service members served by the grantee;
1.19 (6) the number of family members of veterans and active service members served by
1.20the grantee;
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SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 2652NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: LANG)
OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
Introduction and first reading03/17/2025
Referred to Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development 2.1 (7) the number of veterans and veteran family members who successfully completed
2.2the grantee's programming and the criteria used to determine successful completion of the
2.3program; and
2.4 (8) the grantee's charitable giving ratio.
2.5 (c) If a grantee used grant money to provide services to any veterans or veteran family
2.6members who reside outside of Minnesota, the report must list the states where the
2.7non-Minnesota participants reside and include the reasons that the grantee used grant money
2.8to provide services to non-Minnesota residents.
2.9 (d) The commissioner is not required to provide information in response to paragraph
2.10(b), clause (7), for a grantee that does not offer programming that requires completion or
2.11that cannot be measured by objective standards.
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