Minn. Stat. § 423A.02
Subd. 1. Amortization state aid.
(f) The amount required under this section, as provided in subdivision 3a, is appropriated annually from the general fund to the commissioner of revenue.
[See Note.]
Subd. 1a. Supplementary amortization state aid.
In addition to the amortization state aid under subdivision 1, there is a distribution of supplementary amortization state aid among those municipalities that receive amortization state aid under subdivision 1. The amount of the distribution is that proportion of the appropriation that the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of each relief association bears to the total unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities of all relief associations as reported in the December 31, 1983, actuarial valuations of the relief associations receiving amortization state aid under subdivision 1. Money under this subdivision must be distributed at the same time that fire and police state aid is distributed under section 69.021.
Subd. 1b. Additional amortization state aid.
(a) Annually, on October 1, the commissioner of revenue shall allocate the additional amortization state aid transferred under section 69.021, subdivision 11, to:
(c) Beginning October 1, 2000, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall allocate the state aid, including any state aid in excess of the limitation in subdivision 4, on the following basis:
(3) 1.3 percent to the city of Virginia to fund any unfunded actuarial accrued liability in the actuarial valuation prepared under sections 356.215 and 356.216 as of the preceding December 31 for the Virginia Fire Department Relief Association.
If there is no unfunded actuarial accrued liability in both the Minneapolis Police Relief Association and the Minneapolis Fire Department Relief Association as disclosed in the most recent actuarial valuations for the relief associations prepared under sections 356.215 and 356.216, the commissioner shall allocate that 34.2 percent of the aid as follows: 49 percent to the Teachers Retirement Association, 21 percent to the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, and 30 percent as additional funding to support minimum fire state aid for volunteer firefighters relief associations. If there is no unfunded actuarial accrued liability in the Virginia Fire Department Relief Association as disclosed in the most recent actuarial valuation for the relief association prepared under sections 356.215 and 356.216, the commissioner shall allocate that 1.3 percent of the aid as follows: 49 percent to the Teachers Retirement Association, 21 percent to the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, and 30 percent as additional funding to support minimum fire state aid for volunteer firefighters relief associations. Upon the final payment to municipalities required by section 353.665, subdivision 8, paragraph (b), or 353A.09, subdivision 5, paragraph (b), the commissioner shall allocate that 64.5 percent of the aid as follows: 20 percent to the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, 20 percent to the city of Minneapolis to fund any unfunded actuarial accrued liability in the actuarial valuation proposed under sections 356.215 and 356.216 as of the preceding December 31 for the Minneapolis Police Relief Association or the Minneapolis Firefighters Relief Association, 20 percent for the city of Duluth to pay for any costs associated with the police and firefighters pensions, and 40 percent as additional funding to support minimum fire state aid for volunteer firefighters relief associations. The allocation must be made by the commissioner at the same time and under the same procedures as specified in subdivision 3. With respect to the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, annually, beginning on July 1, 2005, if the applicable teacher's association five-year average time-weighted rate of investment return does not equal or exceed the performance of a composite portfolio assumed passively managed (indexed) invested ten percent in cash equivalents, 60 percent in bonds and similar debt securities, and 30 percent in domestic stock calculated using the formula under section 11A.04, clause (11), the aid allocation to that retirement fund under this section ceases until the five-year annual rate of investment return equals or exceeds the performance of that composite portfolio.
(d) The amounts required under this subdivision are the amounts annually appropriated to the commissioner of revenue under section 69.021, subdivision 11, paragraph (e).
[See Note.]
Subd. 2. Continued eligibility.
A municipality that has qualified for amortization state aid under subdivision 1 on December 31, 1984, and has an additional municipal contribution payable under section 353A.09, subdivision 5, paragraph (b), as of the most recent December 31, continues upon application to be entitled to receive amortization state aid under subdivision 1 and supplementary amortization state aid under subdivision 1a, after the local police or salaried firefighters' relief association has been consolidated into the public employees police and fire fund. If a municipality loses entitlement for amortization state aid and supplementary amortization state aid in any year because of not having an additional municipal contribution under section 353A.09, subdivision 5, paragraph (b), the municipality is not entitled to the aid amounts in any subsequent year. A municipality that received amortization aid in 1999 and is required to make an additional municipal contribution under section 353.665, subdivision 8, continues to qualify for the amortization state aid and the supplemental amortization aid until December 31, 2009.
Subd. 3. Reallocation of amortization or supplementary amortization state aid.
(b) In order to receive amortization and supplementary amortization aid under paragraph (a), Independent School District No. 625, St. Paul, must make contributions to the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association in accordance with the following schedule:
| Fiscal Year | Amount | |||
| 1996 | $ | 0 | ||
| 1997 | $ | 0 | ||
| 1998 | $ | 200,000 | ||
| 1999 | $ | 400,000 | ||
| 2000 | $ | 600,000 | ||
| 2001 and thereafter | $ | 800,000 |
(c) Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis, and the city of Minneapolis must each make contributions to the Teachers Retirement Association in accordance with the following schedule:
| Fiscal Year | City amount | School district amount | |||||
| 1996 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | |||
| 1997 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | |||
| 1998 | $ | 250,000 | $ | 250,000 | |||
| 1999 | $ | 400,000 | $ | 400,000 | |||
| 2000 | $ | 550,000 | $ | 550,000 | |||
| 2001 | $ | 700,000 | $ | 700,000 | |||
| 2002 | $ | 850,000 | $ | 850,000 | |||
| 2003 and thereafter | $ | 1,000,000 | $ | 1,000,000 |
Subd. 3a. Appropriations for amortization state aid; supplementary amortization state aid; and amortization state aid and supplementary state aid reallocations.
$4,720,000 is annually appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of revenue for amortization state aid under subdivision 1, and for the reallocation of amortization aid under subdivision 3. $1,000,000 is annually appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of revenue for supplementary amortization state aid under subdivision 1a, and for the reallocation of supplementary amortization state aid under subdivision 3.
Subd. 4. Limit on certain total aid amounts.
Subd. 5. Termination of state aid programs.
The amortization state aid, supplemental amortization state aid, and additional amortization state aid programs terminate as of the December 31, next following the date of the actuarial valuation when the assets of the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association equal the actuarial accrued liability of that plan or December 31, 2009, whichever is later.