Ethnic media organization funding provided for public access television content, and money appropriated.

HF 2278 appropriates $250,000 from Minnesota's arts and cultural heritage fund for the Minnesota Humanities Center to create a grant program. The program funds ethnic media organizations that produce video content in languages other than English. Grant recipients must make this content available on public, educational, and government access television channels. This directly affects ethnic media organizations and expands multilingual content accessible through public TV systems. The bill creates a concrete funding mechanism for non-English media content in Minnesota's public access channels for fiscal year 2026.