2E Relating to higher education; providing for the determination of instructional service base; providing adjustments for enrollments; requiring instructional and enrollment data to be submitted to the office of higher education and the commissioner of finance; specifying requirements for resident tuition determination; modifying performance and accountability requirements of higher education systems; modifying certain provisions relating to tuition paid by senior citizens for college courses; defining eligible cosigner; permitting the office of higher education to enter into interest rate swaps and other agreements under certain conditions; removing higher education program recipient names and addresses from public data classification; defining an eligible student for supplemental and additional loans; requiring all borrowers for supplemental and additional loans through the higher education service office to have a cosigner; providing for loan rehabilitation to persons with defaulted SELF loans; granting temporary total disability to borrowers upon medical certification; modifying work study payment provisions; modifying the membership of the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to provide for representation of organized labor; modifying time reporting policies; clarifying activity fund control; providing for board of trustee control over banking services; temporarily permitting the approval of certain higher education degrees; instructing the office of higher education to convene an advisory task force to study the cost of required textbooks for students attending public and nonpublic postsecondary institutions, specifying membership and requiring nonvoting representatives of the association of American publishers; permitting the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to authorize construction of a new business building at Minnesota state university Mankato; requesting the university of Minnesota to establish a task force to study the market impact on producers of agricultural products from the university licensing germplasm and make recommendations to the legislature; revisor instructions; repealing certain provisions relating to instructional services, performance funding and legislative advisory commission approval of student loan programs
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