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STATE of MINNESOTA January 15, 2020 the Honorable Senator Mary

This document is made available electronically by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library as part of an ongoing digital archiving project. http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/lrl.asp STATE OF MINNESOTA Office of Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon January 15, 2020 The Honorable Senator Mary Kiffmeyer The Honorable Senator Jim Carlson The Honorable Senator Julie Rosen The Honorable Senator Richard Cohen The Honorable Representative Lyndon Carlson The Honorable Representative Liz Olson The Honorable Representative Pat Garofalo The Honorable Representative Mike Nelson The Honorable Representative Andrew Carlson The Honorable Representative Tony Albright Dear Senators and Representatives: Minnesota statutes allows the Secretary of State to accept funds from individuals and apply for grants "to be used for the address confidentiality program established in section 5B.03." Minn. Stat.§ 5B.12. The Office of the Secretary of State is required to report by January 15 "the total amounts received in the preceding calendar year, the sources of those funds, and the uses to which those funds were or will be put. Any contributions from program participants must be aggregated, and the names of program participants must not be reported." Id. As required by section 5B.12, the Office of the Secretary of State reports that it did not apply for, accept, or receive any grant or individual funds authorized by section 5B.12 in calendar year 2019. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. cc: Legislative Reference Library 180 State Office Building I 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. I Saint Paul, MN 55155-1299 Phone: 651-201-1324 or 1-877-600-8683 I Fax: 651-215-0682 I MN Relay Service: 711 E-mail: ·[email protected] I Web site: www.sos.state.mn.us .

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