1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to crime victims; appropriating money to provide emergency shelter for 
1.3 	East African women and children victims of abuse.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; VOICE OF EAST AFRICAN WOMEN 
1.6 	ORGANIZATION.
 1.7 	$565,000 in fiscal year 2014 and $650,000 in fiscal year 2015 are appropriated from 
1.8 	the general fund to the commissioner of public safety for a grant to the Voice of East 
1.9 	African Women organization to provide emergency shelter programming for victims of 
1.10 	domestic abuse and trafficking. The program shall provide shelter to East African women 
1.11 	and children and other victims of domestic violence in Minnesota. The appropriations 
1.12 	must be used for the operating expenses of a shelter. The amount appropriated in 2015 is 
1.13 	added to the base for the Office of Justice Programs in the Department of Public Safety for 
1.14 	grants for emergency shelter programming for victims of domestic abuse and trafficking.

1.15 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.