1E Providing for the financing of higher education and related purposes

ARTICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the higher education services office for state and child care grants, for the intervention for college attendance and united family medicine residency programs, for development of the Rochester higher education facility and for agency administration, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities for instructional and noninstructional expenditures, for the recurring enrollment adjustment, for expansion of the Minnesota online program, for training nurses and teachers, for farm and small business owners management education needs, for outreach to underserved populations, for facilities repair and replacement and for faculty or staff performance awards, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for instructional and noninstructional expenditures, for the recurring enrollment adjustment, for certain initiatives, for outreach services to underserved students and for the Minnesota institute for sustainable agriculture information exchange program and to the commissioner of health to implement the nursing low income loan repayment program; setting the state grants living and expense allowance, authorizing a certain fund transfer and specifying certain HESO financial aid expenditure reporting requirements; temporarily prohibiting the MnSCU board from increasing tuition more than a certain percentage above the level for the previous academic year

ARTICLE 2 - RELATED PROVISIONS

Requiring state universities to offer applied doctoral degrees; prohibiting the marketing of credit cards to students; entitling certain resident deaf students enrolled at public post-secondary institutions to a tuition and fee waiver; requiring the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities and the university of Minnesota to maintain access to campuses and students for military recruiting purposes; specifying certain student qualification requirements for resident tuition rates; eliminating the requirement for the higher education services office to administer the telecommunications council and the statewide library task force; modifying certain duties and extending the expiration date of the higher education and student advisory councils; modifying student grants eligibility relating to child support arrearages; clarifying the definition of fees for cost of attendance determination purposes; authorizing HESO to increase the living and miscellaneous expense allowance under certain surplus appropriation conditions; retroactively extending eligibility for student and child care grants and for public safety officer survivor education benefits for students withdrawing from enrollment for active military service; extending the deadline for applying for state grants and requiring grant and loan eligible institutions to provide certain student enrollment data to HESO; defining eligible student for supplemental and additional loans purposes; requiring HESO to administer an income contingent loan repayment program to assist graduates in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, chiropractic medicine, public health and veterinary medicine and residents graduating from optometry and osteopathy programs, authorizing the disclosure of applicant data to consumer credit reporting agencies; authorizing HESO to deposit and hold assets from the operation of student loan programs in the loan capital fund and providing for use; requiring and providing for the director of HESO to award grants to foster post-secondary attendance by historically underserved elementary and secondary students (intervention for college attendance program); increasing the membership of the MnSCU board to provide more representation from certain larger congressional districts; extending the annual deadline for student associations to submit recommendations to the governor for the selection of student members to serve on the board; modifying certain provisions governing the college savings plan, expanding matching grant requirements and distribution method options, authorizing distribution for attendance at military academies and clarifying a certain residency requirement; requiring regent candidate advisory council membership needs reports and modifying the procedure for election of the regents; creating a low income nursing education account to be used by the commissioner of health to establish a loan repayment program for licensed practical or registered nurses agreeing to practice in nursing homes or to work as educators in the state; extending and codifying the expiration date of the farmer lender mediation act; requiring HESO to convene a temporary advisory task force to study the current post-secondary funding policy and to recommend alternatives to the governor and legislature and to enter into negotiations with the state of Wisconsin relating to higher education reciprocity and report the results to the legislature by certain dates; requiring the revisor of statutes to change the terms HESO and higher education services office in statutes and rules to Minnesota office of higher education; repealing the higher education services council and certain rules relating to youth works post-service benefits and post-secondary education grants for advanced placement (AP) and international baccalaureate (IB) programs

ARTICLE 3 - ROCHESTER HIGHER EDUCATION

Establishing the Rochester university development committee as a temporary committee to research and make recommendations to the governor and the legislature on the creation of mission driven post-secondary educational programs or institutions in the Rochester area to meet the educational needs of the region and the state and to capitalize on the opportunities for educational partnerships in the area, specifying certain membership requirements and duties, requiring a report to the governor and the legislature by a certain date; creating a Rochester university development account in the special revenue fund and appropriating money in the account to the higher education services council (HESO) for allocation to the committee, specifying certain authorized uses of the money

ARTICLE 4 - PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS

Defining multiple location for private career schools regulation purposes;
increasing the surety bond requirement; clarifying certain provisions; establishing certain licensure, program, solicitor permit and student transcript and fees; regulating cancellation refunds for short term programs; providing for the consideration of students as having withdrawn under certain nonattendance conditions; requiring the return of tuition upon school closure; clarifying the authority of the schools to advertise state licensure; regulating the distribution of funds for financial aid; requiring rather than authorizing the higher education services office to grant a reasonable time for license or permit holders to correct certain situations leading to license or permit revocation; classifying data submitted to the office as part of license applications or renewals; requiring and providing for HESO to convene a working group to develop recommendations to revise the regulation of private post-secondary schools, requiring recommendations and accompanying legislation to the legislature by a certain date
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