Skip to main content Skip to office menu Skip to footer
Capital IconMinnesota Legislature
Office of the Revisor of Statutes

HF 1695

as introduced - 91st Legislature (2019 - 2020) Posted on 02/25/2019 02:52pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.
Version List Authors and Status
Pdf Rtf

Bill Text Versions

Engrossments
Introduction Posted on 02/25/2019

Current Version - as introduced

Line numbers 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6
2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15

A bill for an act
 relating to education finance; reinstating funding for the college-level examination
program; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section
120B.131.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 120B.131, is amended to read:


120B.131 COLLEGE-LEVEL EXAMINATION PROGRAM (CLEP).

Subdivision 1.

Program structure.

The college-level examination program (CLEP)
offered by the College Board provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate
college-level achievement and receive college credit or advanced standing through a program
of examinations in undergraduate college courses. new text begin Consistent with section 120B.125, new text end schools
must provide information about CLEP and the opportunity to receive college credit from a
Minnesota postsecondary institution to students successfully completing a college-level
course.

Subd. 2.

Reimbursement for examination fees.

The state may reimburse college-level
examination program (CLEP) fees for a Minnesota public or nonpublic high school student
new text begin eligible for a free or reduced-price meal new text end who has successfully completed one or more
college-level courses in high school in the subject matter of each examination in the following
subjects: composition and literature, mathematics and science, social sciences and history,
foreign languages, and business and humanities. The state may reimburse each student for
up to six examination fees. The commissioner shall establish application procedures and a
process and schedule for fee reimbursements. deleted text begin The commissioner must give priority to
reimburse the CLEP examination fees of students of low-income families.
deleted text end

Subd. 3.

College credit.

The colleges and universities of the Minnesota State deleted text begin Colleges
and Universitiesdeleted text end system must award, and the University of Minnesota and private
postsecondary institutions are encouraged to award, college credit to high school students
who receive a satisfactory score on a CLEP examination under this section. The
commissioner, in consultation with the Minnesota State deleted text begin Colleges and Universitiesdeleted text end new text begin systemnew text end ,
shall set a passing score for college credits.

Sec. 2. new text begin APPROPRIATION; SPECIAL EDUCATION AID.
new text end

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Commissioner of education. new text end

new text begin The sums indicated in this section are
appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of education in the fiscal years
designated.
 new text end

new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin College-level examination program. new text end

new text begin For the college-level examination program
under Minnesota Statutes, section 120B.131:
 new text end

new text begin $
 new text end 		new text begin .......
 new text end 		new text begin .....
 new text end 		new text begin 2020
 new text end
new text begin $
 new text end 		new text begin .......
 new text end 		new text begin .....
 new text end 		new text begin 2021
 new text end

new text begin Any balance in the first year does not cancel but is available in the second year.
 new text end