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SF 1672 Senate Long Description

Providing for telecommunications access revenue for intermediate school districts and removing regional public libraries from telecommunication access grant eligibility; extending the expiration date of the revenue program and the requirement for school districts to reserve a certain amount of money for telecommunication access costs; providing for regional public library telecommunications aid, specifying eligibility and application requirements, required and prohibited uses and a funding priority and providing for the awarding of funds by the commissioner of children, families and learning; authorizing independent and intermediate school districts and charter schools to submit by a certain date costs due to unfunded state and federal mandates requiring Internet filtering devices to the commissioner for reimbursement; providing for improved technology and curriculum development grants to independent and intermediate school districts and charter schools to be used for certain purposes, requiring the commissioner in cooperation with the Minnesota education telecommunications council to develop the form, procedures, time lines and standards for the grants and extending the availability of a certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for telecommunication access revenue for the grants; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for telecommunications access revenue, for unfunded technology costs, for improved technology and curriculum development grants, for regional library telecommunications aid and for statewide licenses to online databases selected in cooperation with the higher education services office (HESO) for school media centers and public, state government and public or private college or university libraries (electronic library for Minnesota) (ra)