1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to criminal justice; establishing a grant 
  1.3             program that will enable communities to develop and 
  1.4             provide criminal justice intervention programs; 
  1.5             appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in 
  1.6             Minnesota Statutes, chapter 241.  
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [241.81] [COMMUNITY INTERVENTION PROGRAM 
  1.9   GRANTS.] 
  1.10     Subdivision 1.  [COMMUNITY APPLICANT.] (a) In order to 
  1.11  qualify for a criminal justice intervention program grant from 
  1.12  the children's cabinet, a community applicant must agree to 
  1.13  develop or provide services for children and youth designed to 
  1.14  encourage, expand, or enhance community alternatives for youth 
  1.15  at risk. 
  1.16     (b) Community applicants are expected to have broad 
  1.17  community representation, which may include judges, police, 
  1.18  corrections, county attorneys, local providers, including school 
  1.19  districts, counties, public health entities, other 
  1.20  municipalities, existing culturally specific community 
  1.21  organizations, family service collaboratives, local health 
  1.22  organizations, private and nonprofit service providers, child 
  1.23  care providers, local foundations, community-based service 
  1.24  groups, businesses, local transit authorities, or other 
  1.25  transportation providers, community action agencies under 
  1.26  section 268.53, senior citizen volunteer organizations, parents, 
  2.1   students, youth service organizations, and sectarian 
  2.2   organizations that provide nonsectarian services.  
  2.3      Subd. 2.  [DUTIES.] (a) Each community applicant shall: 
  2.4      (1) establish clear goals for addressing the needs of 
  2.5   children and youth and use outcome-based indicators to measure 
  2.6   progress toward achieving those goals; 
  2.7      (2) establish or have engaged in a comprehensive planning 
  2.8   process that involves all sectors of the community, identifies 
  2.9   local needs, and surveys existing local programs; and 
  2.10     (3) design or implement an integrated local community 
  2.11  program that coordinates services across agencies and is client 
  2.12  centered.  
  2.13     (b) The outcome-based indicators developed in paragraph 
  2.14  (a), clause (1), may include apprehensions of children, violent 
  2.15  crimes reported, and the rate of violent and injury-related 
  2.16  deaths.  
  2.17     Subd. 3.  [PROGRAM ELEMENTS.] A community applicant shall 
  2.18  design or implement a program that gives priority to: 
  2.19     (1) juvenile restitution; 
  2.20     (2) prearrest diversion; 
  2.21     (3) probation innovation; 
  2.22     (4) teen courts; 
  2.23     (5) community service; or 
  2.24     (6) postincarceration alternatives to assist youth in 
  2.25  returning to their communities. 
  2.26     Subd. 4.  [LOCAL PLANS.] Each community applicant shall 
  2.27  prepare a plan.  The plan shall describe how the community 
  2.28  applicant will carry out the duties required under this 
  2.29  section.  The plan shall include a list of the community 
  2.30  participants, a copy of the agreement required under subdivision 
  2.31  1, and methods for increasing local participation in the 
  2.32  program, involving parents and other community members in 
  2.33  implementing and operating the program.  The plan shall also 
  2.34  include specific goals that the community intends to achieve and 
  2.35  methods for objectively measuring progress toward meeting the 
  2.36  goals.  
  3.1      Subd. 5.  [PLAN APPROVAL BY CHILDREN'S CABINET.] (a) The 
  3.2   children's cabinet established under Minnesota Statutes, section 
  3.3   4.045, shall approve local plans for community justice 
  3.4   intervention programs.  In approving local plans, the children's 
  3.5   cabinet shall give highest priority to a plan that provides:  
  3.6      (1) services for youth eight years old to 13 years old; 
  3.7      (2) participation by the maximum number of public and 
  3.8   private, local, county, and state funding sources; and 
  3.9      (3) clearly defined outcomes and valid methods of 
  3.10  assessment.  
  3.11     (b) The children's cabinet shall ensure that the programs 
  3.12  funded under this section do not conflict with any state or 
  3.13  federal policy or program and do not negatively impact the state 
  3.14  budget.  
  3.15     Subd. 6.  [GRANTS.] The children's cabinet may make grants 
  3.16  to community applicants to fund criminal justice intervention 
  3.17  programs as described in subdivision 4.  The children's cabinet 
  3.18  shall develop a grant application form, inform criminal justice, 
  3.19  social service, and other groups described in subdivision 2, 
  3.20  paragraph (b), about the availability of grants, and set a date 
  3.21  by which applications must be received by the cabinet. 
  3.22     Subd. 7.  [FUNDS.] The amount of grant money available 
  3.23  shall be apportioned on a county population basis.  Funds not 
  3.24  applied for shall be reallocated to the applicants, for 
  3.25  technical amendments, or for evaluations at the commissioner of 
  3.26  corrections' discretion. 
  3.27     Subd. 8.  [RECEIPT OF FUNDS.] The commissioner may receive 
  3.28  and administer public and private funds for the purposes of this 
  3.29  act.  
  3.30     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  3.31     $....... is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  3.32  commissioner of corrections for the purpose of making grants 
  3.33  authorized under section 1 to be available until June 30, 1997.