Session Year 2001, Special Session 1

Bill Name: HF0002

hf2 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Omnibus k-12 education finance bill. ARTICLE 1 GENERAL
EDUCATION REVENUE Section 1: Taconite lease revenue distribution regulations
established. Sec. 2: Mineral lease suspense account created. Sec. 3: Taconite
mining grant appropriations provided. Sec. 4-5: Graduation standard language
clarified. Sec. 6: Transportation fees by school boards authorized. Sec. 7:
Transportation fee regulations conforming changes provided. Sec. 8-9: Dates
adjusted. Sec. 10: Levy recognition as revenue clarified. Sec. 11: General
education aid required. Sec. : Transportation fee conforming changes provided.
Sec. 13: Education aid percentage increased. Sec. 14: Pupil unit average daily
membership language clarified. Sec. 15: Referendum offset adjustment eliminated
from general education revenue. Sec. 16: Basic revenue calculation formula
modified. Sec. 17: Basic skills revenue defined. Sec.18: Supplemental revenue
calculation procedure modified, dates provided. Sec. 19: Total operating capital
revenue language clarified. Sec. 20: Equity revenue increased. Sec. 21: Regional
equity gap percentile increased. Sec. 22: "Classroom teacher" and "class size"
defined. Sec. 23: Instruction contact time providers specified. Sec. 24: Revenue
usage regulations modified, student teacher ratio specified. Sec. 25: Additional
revenue usage provided. Sec. 26: Annual report required and format provided.
Sec. 27: General education revenue reallocated for all-day kindergarten. Sec.
28: Revenue usage clarified. Sec. 29: Compensatory revenue building allocation
regulations clarified. Sec. 30: Reliable data and measurement criteria required
in annual expenditure report. Sec. 31: Referendum equalization levy definition
modified. Sec. 32: Referendum date regulations eliminated. Sec. 33: School
referendum levy market value provisions clarified. Sec. 34: Referendum date
regulations established. Sec. 35: Data reporting requirements provided. Sec.
36-37: Retirement levy regulations provided. Sec. 38: Tax levy for judgement
established. Sec. 39: School district accounts and records required to be kept
for three years includes to-and-from transportation category for each pupil.
Sec. 40: Estimated net general fund savings language eliminated. Sec. 41:
Statewide average revenue technical changes provided. Sec. 42: Repealer
modified. Sec. 43: Training and experience replacement revenue recalculation
required. Sec. 44: Fiscal years updated. Sec. 45: 2001 calculation procedure
provided. Sec. 46: Sparsity correction revenue date provided. Sec. 47: Special
education cross-subsidy revenue date provided. Sec. 48: Complexity and
inequities of kindergarten through grade 12 education funding statutes and rules
reduction task force established. Sec. 49: Yellow Medicine East school district
declining pupil unit aid provided. Sec. 50: Anoka and Duluth supplemental
revenue increased. Sec. 51: Direction to commissioner provided. Sec. 52: Little
Falls aid repayment provided. Sec. 53: Referendum conversion adjustment for
interest earned provided. Sec. 54: Department of children, families and
learning; general and supplemental education aid; transportation aid for
enrollment options; abatement aid; nonpublic pupil aid; nonpublic pupil
transportation; consolidation transition aid; St. Peter declining pupil unit
aid; and Yellow Medicine East tornado impact money appropriated. Sec. 55:
Repealer.ARTICLE 2 EDUCATION EXCELLENCESection 1: Extended school calendar
authorized. Sec. 2: Teacher training program structure regulations established.
Sec. 3: Involuntary career tracking prohibited. Sec. 4: Statewide testing
required in seventh grade and conditions modified. Sec. 5: Student academic
achievement and progress criteria established. Sec. 6: Principal authorized to
use reasonable force. Sec. 7: Teacher and support personnel qualifications
clarified. Sec. 8: Demonstration of licensure competencies permitted. Sec. 9:
Background checks for nonlicensed community experts required. Sec. 10:
Termination of contract after probationary period situations clarified. Sec. 11:
Additional staff development and salary regulations established. Sec. 12: Period
of service after probationary period terms clarified. Sec. 13: Additional staff
development and salary regulations established. Sec. 14: Probationary period for
internally hired principals detailed. Sec. 15: Hearing of charges against
teachers required. Sec. 16: Language clarified. Sec. 17: "Best practices"
defined. Sec. 18: "School" definition clarified. Sec. 19: Desegregation district
transfer regulations simplified. Sec. 20: Conflict of interest for charter
school members of board of directors regulations established. Sec. 21: Charter
school formation procedure modified. Sec. 22: Charter school audit report
submission required. Sec. 23: State and local health and safety requirements
modified. Sec. 24: Charter school review and comment procedures provided. Sec.
25: Related party lease cost terms defined and lease regulations established.
Sec. 26: Charter school advisory council established. Sec. 27: Building lease
aid clarified. Sec. 28: Charter school aid payment procedure detailed. Sec. 29:
Learning year program established and participation eligibility modified. Sec.
30: Area learning center record keeping system requirements provided. Sec. 31:
Learning year program participation made optional. Sec. 32: Technical. Sec. 33:
Process to address audit findings established. Sec. 34: American Indian
education program description clarified. Sec. 35-46: Indian "language and
culture" education programs replaced with "Indian education programs." Sec. 47:
Integration revenue details modified. Sec. 48: "Pupil of limited English
proficiency" definition modified. Sec. 49: Scholarship awards provided and
described. Sec. 50: Office of desegregation integration no longer applies only
to metropolitan school districts. Sec. 51: Advisory board expiration date
established. Sec. 52: State multicultural education advisory committee
expiration date provided. Sec. 53: Educational improvement plan established and
detailed. Sec. 54: Alternative teacher compensation regulations provided. Sec.
55: Alternative compensation aid detailed. Sec. 56: Learning year pupil unit
language clarified. Sec. 57: Pupil adjustment for closed charter schools and
contracted alternative programs established. Sec. 58: Final adjustment payment
detailed. Sec. 59: Board duties modified. Sec. 60: Clarification of exceptions.
Sec. 61: Structurally balanced school district budgets required. Sec. 62: Little
Falls Lab School innovative teaching techniques study initiated. Sec. 63:
Flexible learning year program expanded. Sec. 64: School academic and financial
performance evaluation independent contractor hired. Sec. 65: Charter school
lease cost related terms defined. Sec. 66: Charter school advisory board
expiration date established. Sec.67: Test content specified. Sec. 68 Access to
tests provided. Sec. 69: Process to allow students to take the basic skills test
as fifth graders established. Sec. 70: St. Croix river education district
reading competency regulations established. Sec. 71: Audit penalty for
department of children, families, and learning eliminated. Sec. 72: Deadline
established and penalty waived. Sec. 73: Athletic activity participation
encouraged and study initiated. Sec. 74: Science licensure requirements
modified. Sec. 75: Career and technical levy provided. Sec. 76: Integration levy
enacted. Sec. 77: Department of children, families, and learning; advanced
placement and international baccalaureate program; statewide testing; charter
school building lease aid; charter school integration aid; best practices grant;
charter school startup grant; integration program; and other related program
money appropriated. Sec. 26: Repealer.ARTICLE 3 SPECIAL PROGRAMSSection 1:
"Suspension" definition modified. Sec. 2: American sign language English
interpreter requirements modified. Sec. 3: Staff development revenue allotments
modified for special education. Sec. 4: Limited English proficiency revenue
allotment requirements clarified. Sec. 5: State interagency committee membership
size increased. Sec. 6: Appropriate service payment responsibilities prescribed
to school and county boards. Sec. 7: School district obligations concerning
children with ADD or ADHD modified. Sec. 8: Sympathomimetic medication not
required. Sec. 9: Employing district no longer required to claim state special
education aid. Sec. 10: Statutory references modified. Sec. 11: "Care and
treatment facilities" defined. Sec. 12: "Essential personnel" definition
modified. Sec. 13: Special education base revenue usage requirements modified.
Sec. 14-16: Sympathomimetic medication not required. Sec. 17: Special education
cross-subsidy revenue payment and calculation procedures clarified. Sec. 18:
Revenue options for coordination of services identification plan required. Sec.
19: State billing process recommendation required. Sec. 20: Board of teaching
rule review and report required. Sec. 21: Money appropriated.ARTICLE 4
FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYSection 1: Nonpublic schools required to submit to
bleacher safety regulations. Sec. 2: Debt service money appropriated. Sec. 3:
Health and safety revenue exclusions established. Sec. 4: Health and safety
revenue usage regulations modified. Sec. 5: Opportunity for private contractors
to provide health and safety services to school districts provided. Sec. 6:
Alternative facilities bonding and levy program participation qualifications
modified. Sec. 7: Cost consultation limit increased. Sec. 8: Preliminary and
final plan submission required. Sec. 9: Review and comment cost consultation
limit increased. Sec. 10: Facility construction notification format regulations
modified Sec. 11: Minnesota education telecommunications council membership
regulations modified. Sec. 12: Language clarified. Sec. 13: Language clarified.
Sec. 14: Revenue for charter schools language modified. Sec. 15: School district
land builiding or leasing regulations modified. Sec.16: Maximum effort debt
service levy definition modified. Sec. 17: Debt service equalization aid
increased. Sec. 18: Loan amount limits increased. Sec. 19: One-time deferred
maintenance aid payment procedure clarified. Sec. 20: Facility improvement money
appropriated. Sec. 21: Intermediate school district bonding authority without
voter approval regulations established. Sec. 22: Environmentally sustainable
school facilities information availability required. Sec. 23: Bonding
authorization for St. Paul independent school district No. authorized. Sec. 24:
St. Paul independent school district No. 625 debt service tax levy authorized.
Sec. 25: Pupil revenue regulations established. Sec. 26: Brainerd regional human
services center building remodeling levy authorized. Sec. 27: Money
appropriated. Sec. 28: Repealer.ARTICLE 5 NUTRITION; SCHOOL ACCOUNTING; AND
OTHER PROGRAMSSection 1: Money transfer from debt redemption fund authorized.
Sec. 2: Breakfast program eligibility criteria established and reimbursement
regulations provided. Sec. 3: Revolving fund for commodity donated foods
established. Sec. 4: Statutory reference added Sec. 5: Reduction of aid for
violation of law language clarified. Sec. 6: Payment percentage for
reimbursement aids clarified. Sec. 7: Payment procedures for first grade
preparedness program established. Sec. 8: State nutrition program aid payment
provided. Sec. 9: "Excess debt redemption fund balance" defined. Sec. 10: Fund
transfers authorized. Sec. 11: Operating capital account deficit allowed for
independent school district No. 492, Austin. Sec. 12: School task district
formula adjustments provided. Sec. 13: Money appropriated. Sec. 14:
Repealer.ARTICLE 6 DEFICIENCIES Sec. 1: Department of children, families, and
learning appropriation provided, including education aid, vocational aid,
special education excess cost aid, health and safety aid, interactive television
aid, and alternative facilities binding aid.ARTICLE 7 STATE AGENCIESSection 1:
Licensure rules clarified. Sec. 2: Teacher rule variances modified. Sec. 3:
Authority to license regulations clarified. Sec. 4: Expiration and renewal
procedures clarified. Sec. 5: "Scope," "board," and "supervisory personnel"
defined. Sec. 6: Board of school administrators established and membership
requirements detailed. Sec. 7: Board of school administrators meeting format and
frequency provided. Sec. 8: Board of school administrators duties provided. Sec.
9: Conforming changes. Sec. 10: Teachers' and administrators' license
application fees established. Sec. 11: Contracts and grants unit of internal
audits office established. Sec. 12: Retroactivity clause. Sec. 13: Money
appropriated to department of children, families, and learning. Sec. 14: Perpich
center for the arts appropriation provided. Sec. 15: Minnesota state academies
appropriation provided.ARTICLE 8 TECHNICAL AMENDMENTSSection 1: Statutory
reference changed. Sec. 2: Special education aid charter school revenue
dispensation regulations modified. Sec. 3: Statutory reference removed. Sec. 4:
Language clarified. Sec. 5: Statutory reference changed. Sec. 6: Repealer. Sec.
7: Effective date.AE