1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to public safety; modifying intensive comprehensive law enforcement 
1.3 	education and training program; appropriating money;amending Minnesota Statutes 
1.4 	2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivisions 4, 5, 6.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivision 4, is 
1.7 	amended to read:
1.8 		Subd. 4.Forms. The commissioner must prepare the necessary grant application forms 
1.9 	and make the forms available on the agency's public website no later than December 31, 
1.10 	2023 2025.

1.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective retroactively from July 1, 2023.

1.12 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivision 5, is amended 
1.13 	to read:
1.14 		Subd. 5.Intensive education and skills training program. No later than December 
1.15 	31, 2023 2025, the commissioner, in consultation with the executive director of the board 
1.16 	and the institutions designated as education providers under subdivision 6, shall develop 
1.17 	an intensive comprehensive law enforcement education and skills training curriculum that 
1.18 	will provide eligible peace officer candidates with the law enforcement education and skills 
1.19 	training needed to be licensed as a peace officer. The curriculum must be designed to be 
1.20 	completed in eight months or less and shall be offered at the institutions designated under 
1.21 	subdivision 6. The curriculum may overlap, coincide with, or draw upon existing law 
1.22 	enforcement education and training programs at institutions designated as education providers 
2.1 	under subdivision 6. The executive director of the board may designate existing law 
2.2 	enforcement education and training programs that are designed to be completed in eight 
2.3 	months or less as intensive comprehensive law enforcement education and skills training 
2.4 	programs for the purposes of this section.

2.5 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective retroactively from July 1, 2023.

2.6 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 626.8516, subdivision 6, is amended 
2.7 	to read:
2.8 		Subd. 6.Education providers; sites. (a) No later than October 1, 2023 2025, the Board 
2.9 	of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities shall designate at least two 
2.10 	regionally diverse system campuses to provide the required intensive comprehensive law 
2.11 	enforcement education and skills training to eligible peace officer candidates.
2.12 	(b) In addition to the campuses designated under paragraph (a), the commissioner may 
2.13 	designate private, nonprofit postsecondary institutions to provide the required intensive 
2.14 	comprehensive law enforcement education and skills training to eligible peace officer 
2.15 	candidates.

2.16 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective retroactively from July 1, 2023.

2.17 	Sec. 4. APPROPRIATION.
 2.18 	$5,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
2.19 	of public safety for the Office of Justice Programs to continue the intensive comprehensive 
2.20 	peace officer education and training program under Minnesota Statutes, section 626.8516.  
2.21 	This appropriation is available through June 30, 2028.

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