Public safety committee advances $14.4 million supplemental funding bill

A $14.4 million supplemental public safety package is one stop away from a House vote.

The funding requests would be appropriated in Fiscal Year 2027 for projects and programs in the Department of Public Safety, Department of Corrections, and the Peace Officers Standards and Training Board.

The House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee approved the amended HF1082 Wednesday and sent it to the House Ways and Means Committee.

The committee unveiled the package Tuesday, when it took public testimony and heard a walkthrough of the policy and fiscal provisions from House nonpartisan staff.

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Rep. Kelly Moller (DFL-Shoreview) sponsors the bill. She said the extra money would significantly increase public safety across the state.

The bulk of the spending in the public safety package, $12 million, would go to a new Minnesota Victims of Crime account in the Office of Justice Programs for grants to community-based crime victim services providers such as emergency shelters and legal advocacy.

An additional $2.1 million would go into the Philando Castile Memorial Training Fund. Managed by the POST board, the fund supports mandatory training for officers in de-escalation, implicit bias, and crisis management to improve community-police relations.

More Capitol Security dollars

Wednesday’s action also included hearing a related supplemental public safety budget bill, HF3230, also sponsored by Moller, that would appropriate $17.4 million in the 2026-27 biennium to fund legislative, judicial, and Capitol security programs. It was amended and held over for possible future action.

Of that amount, $11.1 million would fund extra Capitol security personnel and the screening stations used at the four entrances to the building that were installed before the first day of the 2026 session.

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