1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; appropriating money for a grant to consolidate children's 
1.3 	residential treatment programs and create a specialized care children's residential 
1.4 	treatment campus.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA CHILDREN'S 
1.7 	RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS.
 1.8 	$2,500,000 in fiscal year 2025 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.9 	of human services for a grant to Volunteers of America of Minnesota to modify and sustain 
1.10 	its children's residential treatment programs in Minnesota. Grant funds must be used to 
1.11 	implement a planned consolidation of existing children's residential treatment programs 
1.12 	and to create a specialized children's residential treatment program campus for children and 
1.13 	youth with complex, highly acute behavioral health treatment needs. This is a onetime 
1.14 	appropriation.