3E Providing for the financing of higher education and related purposes

ARTICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the office of higher education for state grants, safety officer survivors, child care grants, state work-study grants, achieve scholarship program, Indian scholarships, TEACH program, intervention for college attendance program grants, Midwest higher education compact, Power of You program, technical and community college emergency grants, veterinary loan forgiveness, united family medicine residency program, interstate tuition reciprocity, Minnesota college savings plan, MnLINK Gateway and Minitex, student and parent information, Get Ready outreach program, Minnesota minority education partnership grant, TANF work study and specifying waiver and agency administration, specifying assistance for small institutions accreditation requirements, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and university (MnSCU) and specifying federal funds use (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA), limiting tuition increases, for central office and shared services unit, for operations and maintenance, for the Cook county higher education board, Northeast Minnesota higher education district, eFolio enhancements, Learning Network of Minnesota and human resources system improvements, to the University of Minnesota board of regents for operations and maintenance, a new scholarship, Ojibwe and Dakota language programs, veterinary diagnostic laboratory, a Minnesota wildlife rehabilitation grant, for primary care education initiatives, specifying federal funds use, provides tuition increase cap for resident undergraduate students, for special appropriations for agriculture and extension services, health sciences, the institute of technology, for system special, for the university of Minnesota and Mayo foundation partnership, academic health center and for Coleraine mineral research laboratory (NRRI) research by laid off taconite engineers, prohibiting university of Minnesota appropriation use for human cloning, to the Mayo medical foundation for medical school and family practice and graduate residency, to the board of dentistry for licensing dental therapists,
and to department of health for an evaluation of the impact of dental therapists; providing for carryforward of certain appropriations; requiring or providing for certain fund transfers

ARTICLE 2 - RELATED HIGHER EDUCATION PROVISIONS

Modifying state financial aid programs, the process for choosing the governing boards of public higher education system and other higher education policy provisions; creating course equivalency guides through public postsecondary educational institutions for military coursework and occupational training; requiring public and private postsecondary educational institutions to give notice to prospective students to investigate the potential effects of a criminal conviction on future employment in a field of study, specifying institutional liability immunity for failure to give notice; modifying office of higher education (OHE) textbook publishers information responsibilities; requiring college bookstores to sell Amercian made clothing, report requirement; encouraging higher education systems and other higher education institutions to establish research-based high school-to-college developmental transition programs to prepare students for college, specifying certain program requirements, requiring an evaluation for participating programs with a working group to develop methods and timelines for data collection and analysis of program effectiveness, requiring report to the legislature for improving academic performance of participating students; eliminating OHE responsibility for the Learning Network funded under MnSCU; defining resident of the state for reciprocal agreement purposes, establishing a statutory appeals process for resident status, extending the time period for postsecondary institutions accreditation requirement to participate in the state grant program; stating the financial aid policy of Minnesota promise for higher education low-income students, requiring OHE to prepare and distribute materials; modifying award requirements for the state grant program; providing a onetime grant for the high school-to-college developmental transition program; specifying certain postsecondary institutions policy and procedures implementation requirements for federal student aid (FAFSA) forms application awareness and requiring report to the legislature on policies adopted; modifying certain achieve scholarship program provisions, providing an additional award for online court completion, specifying a student investment requirement; providing for a SELF loan revenue bonds annual certificate of need, requiring OHE to annually certify needed amounts to governor; establishing the large animal veterinarian loan forgiveness program; modifying certain planning information requirements for postsecondary education; modifying MnSCU board of trustee nomination and election requirements, prohibiting state agency commissioners from serving on the board, specifying certain candidate recommendations reporting requirements; requiring the MnSCU board to use labor market data in reviews of college programs and to provide job placement rates to prospective students of an occupational or technical program; authorizing the board of regents to establish a middle income scholarship for certain students not eligible for the federal PELL grant; limiting the number of terms to be served by the university of Minnesota regent candidate advisory council members; modifying meeting requirements of the regent nomination joint committee; authorizing state appropriations to the university of Minnesota to be made in monthly payments; increasing the eligibility period for the postsecondary peace officers survivor grant award; regulating liquor licenses issued to the board of regents for a stadium or area facility; requiring the OHE to report to the legislature on federal textbook information requirements; specifying achieve scholarship awards for eligible students prior to a certain date; requiring OHE and the department of education to report to the legislature on best practices in teacher education programs; creating the fiscal stabilization account in the state treasury for deposit of federal funds received through the ARRA, authorizing the commissioner of finance to designate a primary payee for each state fiscal stabilization award; providing for the appropriation of money from the sale of the aviation training center in Winona operated by Minnesota state college southeast technical for a capital project; requiring the board of trustees of MnSCU to establish Power of You pilot programs in suburban and rural sites for qualifying low-income students; modifying certain requirements for an associate of applied science degree at Minnesota state colleges and universities; repealing certain achieve scholarship program provisions relating to documentation of qualifying household income, availability of scholarship funds and disbursement of scholarships

ARTICLE 3 - DENTAL THERAPISTS

Establishing licensure and practice limitations for dental therapists and advanced dental therapists; prescribing and defining scope of practice, specifying education, supervision and recordkeeping requirements; defining dental therapist, advanced dental therapist, resident dental providers, and the practice of dental therapy; modifying certain provisions providing for the licensure of dental occupations; prescribing certain licensure, registration and renewal certification fees; establishing certain practice limitations, rules and qualifications for licensure; requiring a written collaborative management agreement with a licensed dentist; requiring the board of dentistry to evaluate the impact of the use of dental therapists on the delivery of and access to dental services and to develop an evaluation process, requiring report to the legislature by a certain date; repealing the oral health practitioner provision
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