A bill for an act
 relating to public safety; modifying intensive comprehensive law enforcement
education and training program; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes
2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivisions 4, 5, 6.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivision 4, is
amended to read:


Subd. 4.

Forms.

The commissioner must prepare the necessary grant application forms
and make the forms available on the agency's public website no later than December 31,
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Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivision 5, is amended
to read:


Subd. 5.

Intensive education and skills training program.

No later than December
31, deleted text begin 2023deleted text end new text begin 2025new text end , the commissioner, in consultation with the executive director of the board
and the institutions designated as education providers under subdivision 6, shall develop
an intensive comprehensive law enforcement education and skills training curriculum that
will provide eligible peace officer candidates with the law enforcement education and skills
training needed to be licensed as a peace officer. The curriculum must be designed to be
completed in eight months or less and shall be offered at the institutions designated under
subdivision 6. The curriculum may overlap, coincide with, or draw upon existing law
enforcement education and training programs at institutions designated as education providers
under subdivision 6. The executive director of the board may designate existing law
enforcement education and training programs that are designed to be completed in eight
months or less as intensive comprehensive law enforcement education and skills training
programs for the purposes of this section.

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Sec. 3.

Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivision 6, is amended
to read:


Subd. 6.

Education providers; sites.

(a) No later than October 1, deleted text begin 2023deleted text end new text begin 2025new text end , the Board
of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities shall designate at least two
regionally diverse system campuses to provide the required intensive comprehensive law
enforcement education and skills training to eligible peace officer candidates.

(b) In addition to the campuses designated under paragraph (a), the commissioner may
designate privatedeleted text begin , nonprofitdeleted text end postsecondary institutions to provide the required intensive
comprehensive law enforcement education and skills training to eligible peace officer
candidates.

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Sec. 4. new text begin APPROPRIATION.
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new text begin $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner
of public safety for the Office of Justice Programs to continue the intensive comprehensive
peace officer education and training program under Minnesota Statutes, section 626.8516.
This appropriation is available through June 30, 2028.
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