Text of MN HF 4323 (2020)
Public library aid reduced to public libraries that host drag queen story hour.
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As introduced
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A bill for an act
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relating to libraries; reducing aid to a public library that hosts drag queen story
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hour; amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 134.34, by adding a subdivision.
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 134.34, is amended by adding a subdivision
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to read:
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Subd. 8. Drag queen story hour. (a) "Drag queen story hour" or "drag queen story
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time" means a children's event in which a drag queen reads stories or books to children or
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engages in other learning or educational activities with children in a library setting.
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(b) For calendar year 2021 and later, a public library that hosts a drag queen story hour
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event shall have regional library system support aid from the Department of Education
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reduced by 100 percent. A public library in a regional public library system that hosts a
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drag queen story hour event is ineligible for regional library basic system support aid from
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the Department of Education and the regional library basic system support aid must be
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reapportioned equally among the other public libraries in the participating regional public
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library system.
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REVISOR
CM/NB
20-7639
03/04/20
State of Minnesota
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 4323
NINETY-FIRST SESSION
Authored by Gruenhagen, Erickson, Lucero, Poston and Layman
03/09/2020
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Education Finance Division