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)