H.F. 4624 Summary

• Appropriates $688,000 in fiscal year 2021 to the State Auditor for a school finance accountability team, with a base of $690,000 for fiscal years 2022-2023, and prohibits billing school districts for this work prior to July 1, 2024.

• Appropriates $2,850,000 in fiscal year 2021 to the Attorney General with a base of $2,205,000 for fiscal year 2022 and thereafter.

• Appropriates $1,478,000 in fiscal year 2020 to the Secretary of State for the Help America Vote Act account as a one-time appropriation, and $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2021 to the Office of MN.IT Services for information technology recovery and software modernization.

• Transfers authority for approving counsel appointments in public defender cases from courts to the State Public Defender and Board of Public Defense, and reduces the threshold for reasonable accommodation reimbursement from $1,000 to $500 for state employees.

• Allows state agencies to retain 5% of legislative grant appropriations and formula grants, and 10% of competitively awarded grants, for administrative costs; repeals a previous $491,369,000 budget reserve reduction scheduled for July 1, 2021.