Modifying certain provisions relating to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU); removing a certain restriction on the state share of certain estimated expenditures for instructional services; making optional the administration fee under the senior citizen higher education program; modifying the authority of the board of trustees to contract for professional or technical services, authorizing contracts for consultant services, eliminating the authority of colleges or universities to enter into the contracts without board approval, authorizing purchase orders, eliminating a certain consultation requirement relating to the development of contracting procedures, providing for educational professional or technical services contracts for instructional services, authorizing the board to enter into lease, rental and installment purchase agreements and intergovernmental contracts when required by a federal agency and to contract for purchases with suppliers with federal agency price schedules; providing for tuition refunds for certain students entering military service; deleting certain obsolete references; repealing certain planning physical space consideration and reporting requirements(mk)