Relating to education; transferring responsibilities for noncurricular athletic and fine arts activities for youth from school districts to local government units (cities, counties or towns) to enable school districts to focus on delivering academic services; adding the term cocurricular to certain athletics provisions and changing the term extracurricular to cocurricular or noncurricular for responsibilities transfer purposes; prohibiting school boards from authorizing or spending money for noncurricular activities; requiring the leasing of space to local government units for the athletics and fine arts activities before committing the space for other uses, specifying certain net proceeds deposit requirements; authorizing capital improvements to the property to facilitate rental; retaining the state high school league as a voluntary association of local governments, providing for membership and cooperation and authorizing annual property tax levies to pay for league sponsored athletic and fine arts activities; granting local government units certain contracting, leasing and fee charging authority and providing for the distribution of league revenues; providing for the resolution of interregional conference disputes; changing the name of the league to the Minnesota youth fine arts and athletic league, specifying certain name change instructions to the revisor of statutes
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