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SF 1511 Senate Long Description

E Providing for the financing of higher education and related + purposes, making certain base cuts and cutting the growth ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the higher education services office for state+ grants for educational benefits to dependent children and to spouses of +public safety officers killed in the line of duty, for interstate tuition +reciprocity, for state work study, for child care grants, for Minitex and MnLINK, for +the learning network, for income contingent loans for certain medical +school graduates, for the college savings plan and for agency administration+ of the post-high school planning, get ready and college intervention +programs, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities +for instructional and noninstructional expenditures and for the talented +youth mathematics program, to the board of regents of the university +Minnesota for instructional and noninstructional expenditures, for the agricultural experiment station and extension service, for the institute of +technology, for system specials and for primary care education initiatives and to the+ Mayo medical foundation for the medical school and for certain family +practice and graduate residency programs; requiring or providing for certain fund +transfers; specifying certain match requirements; requiring HESO to periodically+ collect data from institutions disbursing state financial aid for evaluation +and reporting purposes; continuing certain accountability requirements; +designating the Northeast higher education district as the fiscal agent for the +Arrowhead university center; requiring the MnSCU board of trustees and +requesting the board of regents to report to the legislature on progress under the +master academic plan for the metropolitan area, specifying certain report +content requirements ARTICLE 2 � POLICY CHANGESRequiring and providing for public and private post-secondary +educational institutions to provide information on the risks of meningococcal +disease (meningitis) and the availability and effectiveness of vaccines to +first time enrollees residing in on-campus student housing; prohibiting public +or private post-secondary institutions from entering into agreements to market +credit cards to students or from providing certain information to credit +card issuers without student consent, authorizing attorney general enforcement; +imposing grant penalties for students enrolled in post-secondary institutions +convicted of damage to property or violence during riots; modifying the +definition of assigned family responsibility and defining fees for student cost of +attendance and grant determination purposes; reducing the enrollment duration +limit for grant awards eligibility, authorizing certain undergraduate students +to apply for and receive grants for additional credits under certain +conditions; requiring the calculation of state grants for final quarters or +semesters to subtract Pell grant eligibility; making the grant application +deadline static and prohibiting retroactive funding; reducing the maximum child care +grant award; increasing the bonding authority of the higher education +facilities authority; expanding the unique missions of the Fond du Lac tribal +and community college to providing programs in support of the federal +land grant status, authorizing the college to offer baccalaureate programs in +elementary education and in sustainable development and assigning faculty +teaching upper division courses at the college to the state university bargaining +unit; repealing the summer scholarships for academic enrichment program and+ Akita program and advanced placement (AP) and international baccalaureate +(IB) grantsARTICLE 3 � HESO HOUSEKEEPING Eliminating the requirements for the higher education services office+ to establish an account for the deposit of funds for youth community +service program participants postservice benefits and for the tuition reciprocity agreement with the state of Wisconsin to +be based on the existence of an income tax reciprocity agreement between the +two states; increasing the bonding authority of the office; modifying certain +provisions under the college savings plan, modifying certain distribution +options and providing for the establishment of minor trust accounts; modifying +the formula for calculation of public safety officers survivor education +benefits; providing certain learn and earn program incentives ARTICLE 4 � MNSCU ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGESAuthorizing Minnesota state colleges and universities board of +trustees contracts with chancellors, vice chancellors or presidents to contain+ a deferred compensation plan; modifying a certain provision providing +for board of trustees negotiation and purchase of annuity contracts, +authorizing the purchase of individual custodial accounts; expanding the contracting +authority of the board; regulating easements; authorizing the board to accept +federal money for construction and equipping purposes; repealing a certain +requirement for the board to operate a state university center in the +metropolitan area, the state council on vocational technical education, certain local +contracting authority and the authority to sell computers to staff and students (ja)