Bill > HF3028

This bill: - Establishes the Office of Child Care Community Partnerships within the Department of Employment and Economic Development to support increasing the quantity and accessibility of quality child care in Minnesota. - Creates a small business navigator program to provide information, direction, and targeted outreach to small businesses and entrepreneurs, especially historically underserved populations and communities. - Establishes a small business partnership program to provide grants to local and regional community-based nonprofits to support the start-up, growth, and success of eligible businesses through business development and technical assistance services. - Expands and modifies several existing economic development programs, including the Minnesota Job Creation Fund, Launch Minnesota, and the Targeted Community Capital Project Grant Program. - Creates the Community Wealth-Building Grant Program and the Emerging Developer Fund Program to provide financing and assistance to community businesses and emerging developers. - Establishes the Empowering Enterprise Program to make grants to eligible organizations for local economic relief programs in areas adversely affected by civil unrest. - Creates a Capitol Area Community Vitality Task Force and a Capitol Area Community Vitality Account to improve the livability, economic health, and safety of communities within the Capitol Area in St. Paul. - Appropriates significant funding across these various economic development initiatives.

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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF3028&ssn=0&y=2023