To Oppose Proposed Amendment HF 4323 to Minnesota Statutes 2018 134.34
To Oppose Proposed Amendment HF 4323 to Minnesota Statutes 2018 134.34
Why this petition matters
Dear Minnesota Citizens:
We cannot afford discriminatory legislation in today's already polarized political climate. That is why I ask you to help our state to oppose the amendment HF 4323 to MN Statutes 2018, section 134.34.
The proposed amendment as read:
Current Version - as introduced
A bill for an act
relating to libraries; reducing aid to a public library that hosts drag queen story
hour; amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 134.34, by adding a subdivision.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 134.34, is amended by adding a subdivision
to read:
Subd. 8. Drag queen story hour.
(a) "Drag queen story hour" or "drag queen story
time" means a children's event in which a drag queen reads stories or books to children or
engages in other learning or educational activities with children in a library setting.
(b) For calendar year 2021 and later, a public library that hosts a drag queen story hour event shall have regional library system support aid from the Department of Education reduced by 100 percent. A public library in a regional public library system that hosts a drag queen story hour event is ineligible for regional library basic system support aid from the Department of Education and the regional library basic system support aid must be reapportioned equally among the other public libraries in the participating regional public
library system.