1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; changing the method of
1.3 	charging student fees.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. OPTIONAL STUDENT FEES.
 1.6 	The Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and
1.7 	Universities must provide students with the opportunity to
1.8 	affirmatively choose to pay any optional student fee to fund
1.9 	student groups.  These optional fees must not be assessed by
1.10 	requiring a student to opt out of the fee.  A student must be
1.11 	provided with a description of the focus or mission of the
1.12 	student groups that are funded with the optional fee.  The Board
1.13 	of Regents of the University of Minnesota are requested to
1.14 	provide all students with opportunity to affirmatively choose to
1.15 	pay any optional student fee used to fund student groups and to
1.16 	not require students to opt out of these fees.  For the purposes
1.17 	of this section, "optional student fee" means any fee to support
1.18 	one or more student-run organizations that operate with or
1.19 	without faculty advisement.