HF 630 Omnibus E-12 Education Bill
THIRD ENGROSSMENT
ARTICLE ONE: GENERAL EDUCATION
Section 1: Pupil age limitation provision modified.
Section 2: Length of school year and hours of instruction provisions modified.
Section 3: Elementary pupil definition modified.
Section 4: Postsecondary enrollment options for pupils modified to allow school district transportation in some circumstances.
Section 5: Student transportation definitions modified to accommodate homeless siblings.
Section 6: School district transportation report provisions modified.
Section 7: Board-adopted kindergarten early admission policy allowed.
Section 8: Alternative program provisions modified.
Section 9: Career and technical levy provisions modified.
Section 10: Referendum market value equalizing factor defined.
Section 11: Pupil unit provisions modified.
Section 12: Learning year pupil unit provisions modified.
Section 13: School district general education revenue provision modified.
Section 14: District basic revenue formula allowance increased.
Section 15: Total operating capital revenue uses modified.
Section 16: Equity revenue provisions modified.
Section 17: Equity levy calculation modified.
Section 18: Transition levy calculation modified.
Section 19: Basic skills revenue use provision modified.
Section 20: Compensatory revenue building allocation provisions modified.
Section 21: Referendum allowance calculation modified.
Section 22: Referendum equalization revenue provisions modified.
Section 23: Referendum equalization levy provisions modified.
Section 24: District lease purchase and installment buy provisions modified.
Section 25: Safe schools levy provisions modified.
Section 26: Taconite payment and other levy reductions provisions modified.
Section 27: Alternative attendance program provisions modified.
Section 28: Fiscal year 2014 equity aid provided for.
Section 29: General education aid money appropriated to various funds and programs.
Section 30: Referendum revenue sparsity exception repealed.
ARTICLE TWO: STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY
Section 1: Student accountability terms defined.
Section 2: Educational expectation and graduation requirements for Minnesota students provisions modified.
Section 3: Statewide required academic standards modified.
Section 4: Benchmarks provisions modified.
Section 5: Graduation requirements and credit equivalency provisions modified.
Section 6: Postsecondary education transition planning provisions modified.
Section 7: Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) program provisions modified.
Section 8: Mental health education by school districts and charter schools encouraged.
Section 9: Statewide testing provisions modified.
Section 10: Statewide and local assessment results provisions modified and terms defined.
Section 11: Educational accountability and public reporting provision modified.
Section 12: State growth target and other state measurement provisions modified.
Section 13: School performance report provisions modified.
Section 14: Standard high school diploma for adults development required and provided for.
Section 15: Minnesota's world's best workforce goals and plans established and provided for.
Section 16: Statewide assessment and accountability transition provided for.
Section 17: Career pathways and technical education advisory task force established and provided for.
Section 18: Standard adult high school diploma advisory task force appointed and provided for.
Section 19: Differentiated graduation rate measures implemented and alternative routes to a standard diploma for at-risk and off-track students explored.
Section 20: Minnesota Department of Education and statewide testing and reporting system money appropriated.
Section 21: Revisor instructed to renumber and make necessary cross-reference changes.
Section 22: Various Minnesota rules repealed.
ARTICLE THREE: EDUCATION EXCELLENCE
Section 1: School health services drugs and medicine exclusion provision modified.
Section 2: Epinephrine auto-injectors possession and use policy provisions modified.
Section 3: Districts and schools permitted to maintain a supply of epinephrine auto-injectors.
Section 4: Board of Teaching licensing and rules provision modified.
Section 5: Teacher and support personnel qualifications modified.
Section 6: Teacher applicants licensed in other states provisions modified.
Section 7: K-12 teacher license and relicensure to teach deaf and hard-of hearing students provisions modified.
Section 8: Head varsity coach notice of nonrenewal provision modified and clarified.
Section 9: Staff development revenue provision modified.
Section 10: Online and Digital Learning Advisory Council provisions modified.
Section 11: Flexible learning year program provision modified.
Section 12: Minnesota math corps program established and provided for.
Section 13: English learner provisions modified.
Section 14: General requirements for English learner programs modified.
Section 15: American Indian education community involvement provision modified.
Section 16: Consultation with the Tribal Nations Education Committee on all issues relating to American Indian education required by the commissioner of education.
Section 17: Indian education director appointment required and provided for.
Section 18: Achievement and Integration for Minnesota program established and provided for.
Section 19: Achievement and integration revenue provided for.
Section 20: School climate council established and provided for.
Section 21: School climate center established and provided for.
Section 22: Teacher Licensure Advisory Task Force established and provided for.
Section 23: School climate center first-year priorities established.
Section 24: Student support services team staffing approach development and submission required.
Section 25: Achievement and integration levy adjustment required.
Section 26: Department of Education money appropriated to various funds.
ARTICLE FOUR: CHARTER SCHOOLS
Section 1: Charter schools provisions modified.
Section 2: Continuing truant provision modified to include charter schools.
Section 3: Continuing truant parental or guardian notification provision modified.
Section 4: Attendance review board provision modified to include charter schools.
Section 5: Truancy mediation program provision modified to include charter schools.
Section 6: Charter school building lease aid money appropriated.
Section 7: Revisor instructed to recodify charter school provisions.

ARTICLE FIVE: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Section 1: Interagency Coordinating Council expiration dependent on federal law.
Section 2: Charter school special education aid provisions modified.
Section 3: Special education definitions modified.
Section 4: Restrictive procedures provisions modified.
Section 5: Special education nonresident tuition rate and other cost provisions modified.
Section 6: Eligibility for Part C modified.
Section 7: Interagency child find systems provision modified.
Section 8: Interagency Early Childhood Intervention System "parent" definition modified.
Section 9: State Interagency Coordinating Council provisions modified.
Section 10: Responsibilities of county and school boards with regards to special education provisions modified.
Section 11: Interagency early intervention committee provisions modified.
Section 12: Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) provisions modified.
Section 13: IFSP service coordination provisions modified.
Section 14: Early intervention allocation of resources provision modified.
Section 15: Core early intervention services payment provisions modified.
Section 16: Mediation procedures modified.
Section 17: Special education revenue definitions modified.
Section 18: Special education initial aid provided for.
Section 19: Special education aid formula modified.
Section 20: Statewide average special education expenditure calculation required.
Section 21: Tuition reciprocity with adjoining states provisions modified.
Section 22: Special education forecast maintenance of effort provisions modified.
Section 23: Special education aid adjustment provision modified.
Section 24: Special education excess cost aid definitions modified.
Section 25: Special education initial excess cost aid provision modified.
Section 26: Special education case loads task force established and provided for.
Section 27: Commissioner of education required to use expedited rulemaking process to amend Minnesota Rules related to providing special education under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Section 28: Special education money appropriated.
Section 29: Various provisions repealed.
ARTICLE SIX: FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Section 1: Debt service appropriation provision modified.
Section 2: General obligation bonding no election provision modified.
Section 3: Independent School District No. 625, St. Paul bonding authorization provision modified.
Section 4: Cyrus and Morris school district consolidation provided for.
Section 5: Department of Education facilities and technology money appropriated.
ARTICLE SEVEN: NUTRITION; LIBRARIES; ACCOUNTING
Section 1: School lunch aid computation modified.
Section 2: Summer food service replacement aid provision modified.
Section 3: Library grants and aid provisions modified.
Section 4: Regional library basic system support aid requirements modified.
Section 5: Regional library basic system support aid agreement requirement language modified.
Section 7: Regional library basic system support aid report language modified.
Section 8: Multicounty, multitype library system operating aid language modified.
Section 9: Basic regional library system appropriation language modified.
Section 10: Basic regional library system grant application language modified.
Section 11: Basic regional library system per capita distribution language modified.
Section 12: Basic regional library system per square mile distribution language modified.
Section 13: Basic regional library system appropriation language modified.
Section 14: Basic regional library system adjusted net tax capacity per capita distribution language modified.
Section 15: Basic regional library system rules language modified.
Section 16: Fund transfer provisions modified for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 only.
Section 17: School payment shifts provision modified.
Section 18: Money appropriated to various funds and programs.
Section 19: Revisor instructed to make various substitutions and grammatical changes.
ARTICLE EIGHT: EARLY CHILDHOOD; SELF-SUFFICIENCY; LIFELONG LEARNING
Section 1: Early learning scholarship data provision modified.
Section 2: Minnesota Youth Council Committee established and provided for.
Section 3: Early learning scholarships established and provided for.
Section 4: State total adult basic education aid provisions modified.
Section 5: Early childhood education scholarships provisions modified.
Section 6: Minnesota Youth Council Committee director required to establish an expedited process to award scholarships for fiscal year 2014 only.
Section 7: Early education money appropriated.
ARTICLE NINE: STATE AGENCIES
Section 1: Deparment of Education money appropriated.
Section 2: Minnesota State Academies money appropriated.
Section 3: Perpich Center for Arts Education money appropriated.
ARTICLE TEN: FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS
A. GENERAL EDUCATION
Section 1: General education aid adjustments made.
Section 2: Enrollment options transportation adjustments made.
Section 3: Abatement revenue adjustments made.
Section 4: Consolidation transition adjustments made.
Section 5: Nonpublic pupil education aid adjustments made.
Section 6: Nonpublic pupil transportation adjustments made.
Section 7: Compensatory pilot project formula aid adjustments made.
B. EDUCATION EXCELLENCE
Section 8: Charter school building lease aid adjustments made.
Section 9: Integration aid adjustments made.
Section 10: Literacy incentive aid adjustments made.
Section 11: Interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants adjustments made.
Section 12 Success for the future adjustments made.
Section 13: Tribal contract school aid adjustments made.
C. SPECIAL EDUCATION
Section 14: Regular special education aid adjustments made.
Section 15: Aid for children with disabilities adjustments made.
Section 16: Travel for home-based services adjustments made.
Section 17: Special education excess costs adjustments made.
D. FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Section 18: Health and safety revenue adjustments made.
Section 19: Debt service equalization adjustments made.
Section 20: Alternative facilities bonding aid adjustments made.
Section 21: Deferred maintenance aid adjustments made.
E. NUTRITION AND LIBRARIES
Section 22: School lunch adjustments made.
Section 23: School breakfast adjustments made.
Section 24: Kindergarten milk adjustments made.
Section 25: Basic system support adjustments made.
Section 26: Multicounty, multitype library systems adjustments made.
Section 27: Regional library telecommunications aid adjustments made.
F. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, PREVENTION, AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Section 28: School readiness adjustments made.
Section 29: Early childhood family education aid adjustments made.
Section 30: Health and developmental screening aid adjustments made.
Section 31: Community education aid adjustments made.
Section 32: Adults with disabilities program aid adjustments made.
Section 33: Adult basic education aid adjustments made.