Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1989

3E Providing for the financing of higher education and related purposes

ARTICLE
1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations;
appropriating money to the Minnesota office of higher education for the state
grants, public safety officers survivors, interstate tuition reciprocity, state
work study, child care grants, Minitex, MnLINK gateway, learning network of
Minnesota, Minnesota college savings plan, midwest higher education compact,
intervention for college attendance program grants, achieve success and
persistence through innovative rigorous education for students living in remote
and underserved areas and to increase intervention for college attendance
program (ICAP) grants, for the Minnesota campus compact for operations, to award
campus community collaboration and service learning grants to certain
postsecondary institutions and to support certain compact initiatives, for a
grant to Augsburg college for the Step Up program for chemically dependent
students educational opportunities, to the Loan Repayment Assistance Program of
Minnesota, Inc. for law school loan repayment assistance awards, to the
Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars for a pilot program for
scholarships for students enrolling in certain colleges and universities in
2007, for the teacher education and compensation helps (TEACH) program and early
childhood teacher programs, the united family medicine residency program and
agency administration, providing for balances forwards and transfers, to the
board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU)
system for the Cook county higher education project to provide educational
programs and academic support services to remote regions of northeastern
Minnesota, for tuition elimination at St. Paul college, Minneapolis community
and technical college, Rochester community and technical college, Inver Hills
community college, St. Cloud technical college and Normandale community college,
prohibiting the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and
universities (MnSCU) from setting an undergraduate tuition rate for nonresident
students different than for resident students, exception for residents of states
with reciprocity agreements, for the development and implementation of pilot
projects to address the financial burden of textbook prices, for community based
energy development pilot projects, requiring board allocation to the Mesabi
range technical and community college, the Minnesota West community, Riverland
community college and Inver Hills community college, for a modular clean room
research and training facility located at St. Paul college, for a pilot project
with the northeast Minnesota higher education district and high schools to
reestablish a technical education curriculum, for St. Paul college to
collaborate with the united auto workers to retrofit a pickup truck to run on
battery power, for a grant to a public postsecondary institution for equipment,
facility improvements, travel and compensation expenses related to women's
hockey, to study student demand and employer needs for higher education in the
Mesabi range region of northeastern Minnesota, including the cities of Grand
Rapids, Eveleth and Ely, to establish a center at the Mesabi range community and
technical college in cooperation with the iron range resources and
rehabilitation board (IRRRB) to enhance the use of eFolio Minnesota, requiring
the board to adopt certain polices relating to the cost of textbooks and the
maximum number of semester credits required for baccalaureate degrees, to the
board of regents of the university of Minnesota for operations and maintenance
including funding for advancing education initiatives for an Ojibwe Indian
language program, banded tuition at the Morris, Crookston and Duluth campuses
top reduce tuition costs, scholarships for undergraduate resident students, for
the center for transportation studies to complete a study on options for
reducing greenhouse gases, to establish an India center to promote relations
with India and Southeast Asia, for the formation of the university of Minnesota
Minneapolis area neighborhood alliance, for primary care education initiatives,
special appropriations, agriculture and extension service, for the college of
food, agricultural and natural resources sciences to establish and maintain a
statewide organic research and education initiative, to health sciences for a
grant to a medical residency program located in northern Minnesota for the
preparation of physicians specifically educated to provide care in rural
communities and remote areas of the state, for rural physicians associates
program, the veterinary diagnostic laboratory, health sciences research, dental
care and the biomedical engineering center, to the institute of technology for
the geological survey and the talented youth mathematics program, for system
specials including general research, student loans matching money, industrial
relations education, natural resources research institute, center for urban and
regional affairs, Bell museum of natural history and the Humphrey exhibit, for
the university of Minnesota and the Mayo foundation for research in
biotechnology and medical genomics, to the academic health center, to the Mayo
medical foundation for the medical school and family practice and graduate
residency program and to the commissioner of veterans affairs for postsecondary
educational assistance to eligible state veterans and to the children and
spouses of deceased and severely disabled veterans; requiring the Minnesota
office of higher education to conduct a state grant program study to provide
information concerning the role of the program in promoting affordable access to
higher education including promoting access for students traditionally
underrepresented in higher education and to examine existing financial aid
programs providing loans and grants to students and the needs of the workforce
for occupations currently in demand; requiring the office of higher education to
report by a certain date on postsecondary education participation; providing for
the formation of the university of Minnesota Minneapolis area neighborhood
alliance, providing for alliance functions and projects, requiring a report to
the legislature by a certain date

ARTICLE 2 - RELATED HIGHER EDUCATION


Modifying certain provisions relating to the office of higher education
relating to data sharing; creating the construction management education account
administered by the department of labor and industry, increasing the state
building code surcharge; increasing the size of the agriculture education
leadership council by adding a representative of the Minnesota private colleges
council; clarifying state funding policy for postsecondary education;
establishing statewide higher education objectives; modifying the higher
education instructional services appropriation determination; requiring
noninstructional data to be included in instructional services reports,
specifying additional report requirements; requiring technical and community
colleges and state universities and requesting the university of Minnesota to
provide each student information and skills training in personal financial
management during initial student registration; authorizing a waiver;
prohibiting the sale of student information and marketing of credit cards to
students; "Textbook Disclosusre, Pricing and Access Act"; providing higher
education students better and more timely access to affordable textbooks;
clarifying senior citizen tuition policy; modifying certain provisions relating
to the office of higher education; modifying reporting requirements; increasing
the maximum amount of a child care grant for each eligible child per academic
year; establishing the teacher education and compensation helps (TEACH) program
to provide tuition scholarships, education incentives and early childhood
teacher retention program to provide retention incentives to early care and
education providers, specifying program components, requiring an advisory
committee; creating the construction management education program; modifying the
definition of eligible institution; authorizing the office to enter into
interest rate exchange or swap agreements, hedges, forward purchase or sale
agreements under certain conditions; providing for legislative oversight of the
office of higher education; authorizing students to be awarded work study
payments for one period of nonenrollment under certain conditions; increasing
the bond limit; authorizing the awarding of grants to foster retention and
historically underrepresented college students; modifying MnSCU board of
trustees membership selection procedures and providing for labor and business
members selection; removing a MnSCU time reporting requirement; modifying
bookstore and instructor course material acquisition requirements; authorizing
the MnSCU board of trustees to have authority to control the amount and manner
of deposit of all finance receipts; increasing matching grants; modifying regent
nomination and election provisions; prohibiting use of state funds for
university of Minnesota coaches early contract termination (buyout);
establishing the Minnesota GI bill program, providing for postsecondary
educational assistance to eligible state veterans and to the children and
spouses of deceased and severely disabled veterans, specifying eligibility and
benefit entitlement amount, designating the office of higher education as
responsible agency; authorizing a land lease agreement between the board of
trustees of Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) and the YMCA for
construction of a YMCA facility on the Minnesota west community and technical
college campus in Worthington; specifying certain siting, design and lease
requirements; requiring the office of higher education to report by a certain
date on interest rate protection agreements; repealing certain provisions
relating to postsecondary appropriations for instructional services and
noninstructional services, performance funding, postsecondary systems governing
boards reporting on petroleum tank release cleanup fund reimbursements, state
higher education policy, certain office of higher education reports and
reciprocal agreements relating to nonresident tuition with other states or
provinces data sharing

ARTICLE 3 - PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS

"Minnesota Private
and Out of State Public Postsecondary Education Act"; providing for the
licensure and registration of private postsecondary educational institutions
with the office of higher education, modifying the definition of school to
include entities located in other states with contracts with state schools,
requiring registration upon school merger, consolidation or sale, specifying
information and requirements for registration, school closure, additional
security, accreditation, school criteria, school name limits, name
grandfathering, conditional approval, registration disapproval and appeal,
permitted advertising, records, fees and penalty; requiring curriculum approval;
clarifying requirements with regard to proprietary schools and authorizing
penalties, removing an exemption for driver training schools; exempting
religious schools
(Ch. 65, 2007 - VETO)