1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health; directing the commissioner of
1.3 	health to distribute grants for methamphetamine use
1.4 	prevention; appropriating money; amending Minnesota
1.5 	Statutes 2004, section 145A.14, by adding a
1.6 	subdivision.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 145A.14, is
1.9 	amended by adding a subdivision to read:
1.10 		Subd. 5.Methamphetamine use prevention grants. (a) The
1.11 	commissioner of health shall establish a grant program for the
1.12 	purpose of methamphetamine use prevention and the prevention of
1.13 	other high-risk behaviors that lead or contribute to
1.14 	methamphetamine use.  The commissioner shall distribute the
1.15 	grants based upon need and the ability to support efforts to
1.16 	community health boards and counties with clandestine lab
1.17 	remediation ordinances for programs with a community-based
1.18 	approach to methamphetamine use prevention.  A community health
1.19 	board or county with a clandestine lab remediation ordinance
1.20 	receiving a methamphetamine use prevention grant shall provide
1.21 	at least a 25 percent match of the state funds received under
1.22 	this subdivision.
1.23 	(b) The commissioner of health shall assist grant
1.24 	recipients and other local methamphetamine use prevention
1.25 	efforts.  To accomplish this, the commissioner shall:
1.26 	(1) build expertise within the Department of Health in the
2.1 	area of methamphetamine;
2.2 	(2) develop community-based education and prevention
2.3 	materials for methamphetamine use prevention efforts; and 
2.4 	(3) serve as an educational and technical resource for
2.5 	community health boards, local governments, law enforcement,
2.6 	health care facilities, and others working on methamphetamine
2.7 	use prevention and other methamphetamine-related efforts.

2.8 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.9 	$3,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the
2.10 	commissioner of health for the 2006-2007 biennium for
2.11 	methamphetamine use prevention.  The money shall be used as
2.12 	follows:
2.13 	(1) $250,000 shall be used to develop expertise, materials,
2.14 	and strategies for a methamphetamine use prevention education
2.15 	and awareness campaign;
2.16 	(2) $150,000 shall be used for the development of
2.17 	community-based education and prevention materials; and 
2.18 	(3) $2,600,000 shall be used to make grants to community
2.19 	health boards and counties with clandestine lab remediation
2.20 	ordinances.  Up to $100,000 of this amount may be used for
2.21 	administration of the program.