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Committee hears informational presentation on House File 3220 to fund law-enforcement lockboxes in schools
Summary
House File 3220 was presented on an informational basis proposing to reappropriate $1.8 million in expiring school-safety grant funds to pay for law-enforcement Knox Boxes at schools statewide. Committee members asked technical and liability questions; no vote on the bill was taken.
Representative Sandra Green told the Capital Investment Committee on April 29 that House File 3220 would cancel $1,800,000 in expiring balance from a 2018 school safety grant and reappropriate those dollars to buy law-enforcement lockboxes (commonly called Knox Boxes) for schools across Minnesota.
The bill was presented on an informational basis. Representative Green said the A-1 amendment would add American Indian tribal contract schools to the list of eligible recipients and that the appropriation would be enough to outfit every school in the state with one law-enforcement…
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