1.1Senator Duckworth moved to amend
H.F. No. 2431, as amended pursuant to Rule 45,
1.2adopted by the Senate April 30, 2025, as follows (...):
1.3(The text of the amended House File is identical to
S.F. No. 2483.)
1.4Page 48, delete section 17 and insert:
1.5 "Sec. 17. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 136A.121, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
1.6 Subd. 7.
Insufficient appropriation. (a) If the amount appropriated is determined by
1.7the office to be insufficient to make full awards to applicants under subdivision
5,
the
1.8commissioner may transfer any amount of the unencumbered balance of the account in
the
1.9special revenue fund for North Star Promise scholarships under Minnesota Statutes,
section
1.10136A.1465, subdivision 8, to the state grant appropriation.
1.11(b) If the commissioner does not make the transfer authorized by paragraph (a) or
the
1.12amount transferred does not sufficiently increase the state grant appropriation to
make full
1.13awards to applicants under subdivision 5, awards must be reduced by:
1.14(1) adding a surcharge to the applicant's assigned family responsibility, as defined
in
1.15section
136A.101, subdivision 5a; and
1.16(2) a percentage increase in the applicant's assigned student responsibility, as defined
1.17in subdivision 5.
1.18(c) The reduction under
paragraph (b), clauses (1) and (2)
, must be equal dollar amounts.
1.19The total assigned family responsibility after the addition of the surcharge may exceed
100
1.20percent of the parental or student contribution, as applicable, assigned by the federal
needs
1.21analysis. The commissioner must not adjust the surcharge under paragraph (b), clause
(1),
1.22according to the student's status as a dependent student, an independent student with
1.23dependents other than a spouse, or an independent student without dependents other
than
1.24a spouse. The commissioner must not use any methods other than those provided in this
1.25subdivision to reduce awards."
1.26The motion prevailed. #did not prevail. So the amendment was #not adopted.