E Providing for the financing of higher education and related purposes ARTICLE 1 APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the higher education services office for state grants, for interstate tuition reciprocity, for state work study, for Minitex and MnLINK, for the learning network, for income contingent loans for certain medical school graduates, for Edvest and for the Minnesota minority education partnership for outreach services to historically underserved groups, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities for a grant to Alexandria technical college for the science, technology and engineering preview summer camp for girls for educational and research programs at the central lakes agricultural center, for the leveraged equipment program, for course or curriculum redesign, for the Arrowhead university center, for Northwest technical college programs on the Red Lake, Leech Lake and White Earth Indian reservations, for the talented youth math program at Minnesota state university Mankato and for regional technology and data centers, to the board of regents of the university Minnesota for course or curriculum redesign, for the academic health center, for technology infrastructure and investments, for primary care education initiatives, for the agricultural experiment station and Minnesota extension service, for the rural physicians associates and talented youth mathematics programs, for the veterinary diagnostic laboratory and biomedical engineering center, for the geological survey, 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 certain family practice and graduate residency programs; providing additional fiscal year 2001 appropriations to HESO for a rewrite of the state grant program, to MnSCU and the to the board of regents; requiring certain HESO recommendations to the legislature relating to potential uses of federal Pell grant savings, creation of a state merit scholarship program and reducing the cost of reciprocity agreements; increasing the base appropriation for MnSCU and delaying the development of doctoral level programs or degrees; requiring and providing for the MnSCU board to implement the Minnesota transfer curriculum; requiring technical and consolidated colleges use of instructional advisory committees; providing for technical program development grants; requiring the university of Minnesota to maintain an experiment station advisory council system; providing for accountability of the state colleges and universities and the university of Minnesota, specifying certain learning quality and productivity improvement plan requirements; authorizing certain fund transfers and requiring certain reports to the legislature ARTICLE 2 RELATED PROVISIONSExpanding appropriations for certain post-secondary educational institution enrollments under state appropriations for instructional expenditures to certain persons from outside the state continuously employed full time in the state; providing for the payment of development education costs; making optional the administration fee under the senior citizen higher education program; reducing the assigned family cost responsibility for independent students, modifying the cost of attendance and the use of Pell grant savings and expanding eligibility for state grant purposes and increasing the maximum child care grant; authorizing the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to accept gifts of and enter into agreements to acquire facilities determined to be for the good and benefit of the state colleges and universities and authorizing and providing for the board to convey or lease real property for a certain number of years; providing for tuition refunds for certain students entering military service; requiring the department of children, families and learning to submit to the legislature by a certain date a plan to reduce the need for developmental education in higher education, specifying certain consultation requirements; repealing a certain provision providing for remedial instruction and for a high school diploma warranty (ja)