Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2235

E Providing for the financing of higher education and related purposesARTICLE 1
- APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the higher education services office for
state grants, for interstate tuition reciprocity, for state work study, for the
Minitex library program, for the learning network of Minnesota, for MnLINK, for
the health care and human services education grant program, for Edvest and for
the Minnesota minority education partnership, to the board of trustees of the
Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for the agriculture program at
the Staples campus of the Central Lakes college, for the center for research and
innovation at Bemidji state university, for customized training, for facilities
repair and replacement, for the degree audit reporting system, for the virtual
university and ISEEK, for farm business management programs increased tuition
assistance and for southwest Asia veterans tuition relief, to the board of
regents of the university of Minnesota for primary care education initiatives,
for the virtual university and ISEEK, for facilities repair and replacement, for
an inventory of state owned land within the boundary waters canoe area (BWCA),
for a compulsive gambling treatment follow up study and for reimbursement of
drug expenses to patients undergoing clinical trials, for the agricultural
experiment stations, for the Minnesota extension service, for regional
sustainable agriculture partnerships, for initiatives to sustain renewable
natural resource based industries, for health sciences programs, for the
geological survey, for the talented youth mathematics program, for general
research, for student loans matching money, for industrial relations education,
for the natural resources research institute (NRRI), for the center for urban
and regional affairs, for the Bell museum of natural history and for the
Humphrey exhibit and to the Mayo medical foundation for the medical school and
for the family practice and graduate residency and St. Cloud hospital Mayo
family practice residency programs; setting the private institution tuition
maximum and the living and miscellaneous expense allowance; requiring the HESO
to use the savings in the state grant program resulting from an increase in the
maximum federal Pell grant to reduce the percentage of assigned student
responsibility and to administer an income contingent loan repayment program to
assist graduates of Minnesota schools in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy,
chiropractic medicine, public health and veterinary medicine and residents
graduating from optometry and osteopathy programs; sunsetting the library
planning task force; authorizing the MnSCU board to construct certain facilities
at Itasca community and Pine technical colleges; requiring technical and
consolidated colleges to use instructional advisory committees; requiring a
certain amount of permanent university fund income from mining royalties to be
allocated to the university of Minnesota department of landscape architecture to
develop a long range plan for the reclamation of taconite mining lands;
authorizing certain fund transfers and providing for the retention of certain
revenues ARTICLE 2 - STUDENT ISSUESRequiring public and private post-secondary
educational institutions to provide information relating to the transmission and
prevention of hepatitis A, B and C to first time enrollees, department of health
consultation requirement; modifying the requirement for post-secondary
educational institutions distribution of hazing policies to students; modifying
the membership of the student advisory council to the higher education services
council; modifying the definition of full time for grants in aid purposes,
reducing the percentage of assigned student responsibility and eliminating the
minimum financial stipend; clarifying the eligibility for child care grants of
persons not eligible for child care assistance for educational purposes under
the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) and the definition of eligible
post-secondary institution; establishing a health care and human services
education grant program under the supervision of the higher education services
office (HESO) and the administration of certain qualifying consortia to provide
grants to health care and human services employees to complete post-secondary
degrees or certificates; expanding authorized private contributions to the
Edvest savings program; creating a student association for the state
universities and one for the community and technical colleges; distinguishing
among degrees, certificates and diplomas awarded by technical colleges or
consolidated community and technical colleges as credentials demonstrating
competence in vocational or technical areas, requiring students to be provided
with applied training in general studies necessary for competence in the program
area, providing for student assessment; requiring the board of trustees of the
Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) in cooperation with relevant
industries to develop a short term competency based standardized curricula in
health care and community support services for person with long term care
needsARTICLE 3 - OTHER PROVISIONSEliminating state funding of Edvest savings
program promotional efforts costs and authorizing accounts investment without
limit in investment options from certain federally registered open ended
investment companies; expanding the definition of governmental unit for joint
powers agreements purposes to include the university of Minnesota; transferring
the farmer lender mediation program from the conflict and change center at the
university of Minnesota Humphrey institute to the Minnesota extension service
and extending the expiration date of the program; requiring the involvement of
the director of the higher education services office (HESO) in the establishment
of the program to provide statewide licenses to commercial electronic databases
of periodicals, encyclopedias and associated reference materials for school
media centers and public libraries and expanding the program to state agency and
public or private college or university libraries; requiring the commissioner of
administration in conjunction with the Minnesota education telecommunication and
higher education advisory councils to develop a plan for the governance,
financing and implementation of the learning network II and report to the
legislature by a certain date; repealing the nursing and nurses of color grant
programs and the availability of graduation rule resource grants for the
database access program ARTICLE 4 - PRIVATE TRADE SCHOOLSModifying and
clarifying certain requirements for private career schools; changing the name of
the private business, trade and correspondence school act to the "Private Career
School Act" and defining or redefining certain terms; modifying certain surety
bond requirements, requiring the inclusion of gross income earned on license
application forms by schools not filing the maximum bond amount; modifying and
clarifying certain minimum license standards requirements; expanding catalog or
brochure content requirements; specifying a certain minimum duration for the
retention of student records; requiring the higher education services office to
adopt rules establishing different conditions for license renewal based on the
record of the school, specifying application requirements, fee to be established
by the HESO; requiring the provision of certain information to students relating
to enrollment contracts or agreements; modifying and clarifying certain refund
provisions; changing correspondence home study schools to distance education
schools; requiring the HESO to adopt rules establishing a list of civil
penalties and fines associated with violations of certain prohibitions;
modifying the exemptions from regulation; requiring the HESO to conduct a study
of the licensure and regulation of private, for profit education and training
providers and make certain recommendations to the legislature by a certain date;
repealing the public policy(ra, ja)