3E Relating to higher education

ARTICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the Minnesota office of higher education for state grants, child care grants, state work-study, interstate tuition reciprocity, safety officer's survivors educational benefits, Indian scholarships, tribal college grants, high school-to-college developmental transition grants, intervention for college attendance program grants, student-parent information, get ready, Midwest higher education compact, Minnesota minority partnership, united family medicine residency program, MnLINK gateway and minitex, statewide longitudinal education data system, Hennepin county medical center, Teach for America, the prosperity act, and agency administration; appropriating money to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for the central office and shared services unit, operations and maintenance purposes, and the learning network of Minnesota, limiting certain MnSCU tuition increases; appropriating money to the board of regents of the University of Minnesota (U of M) for operations and maintenance, primary care education initiatives, special appropriations for the agriculture and extension service, health sciences, institute of technology, system special, and the university of Minnesota and Mayo foundation partnership, and the academic health center; appropriating money to the Mayo clinic for its medical school and its family practice and graduate residency program

ARTICLE 2 - HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY

Expanding government data dissemination from the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to the office of higher education; requiring improvement and expansion of the statewide longitudinal education data system (SLEDS) to include certain information;
specifying components of required biennial budget proposals by the university of Minnesota (U of M) and he Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU); authorizing the director of the Minnesota office
of higher education to award competitive matching grants to Minnesota public and private postsecondary institutions, specifying eligible students, application process, match requirement, establishing a grant selection committee; changing the position of office of higher education director to commissioner; requiring institution reporting for certain institutions receiving financial aid; extending child care grant eligibility to certain students undergoing medical treatment; modifying the maximum child care grant award for each eligible child per academic year; providing financial assistance to tribally controlled colleges for certain purposes; defining online platform service; modifying miscellaneous office of higher education requirements; exempting schools using an online platform service, offering training, courses or programs from office of higher education regulation; clarifying certain MnSCU contracts relating to certain bonuses; authorizing the department of employment and economic development (DEED) the department of education, the university of Minnesota (U of M) and the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to collaborate to implement and electronic infrastructure to support academic and workforce success statewide, authorizing the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to set certain goals, develop certain programs and utilize certain resources, requiring board to submit an accountability report annually to the governor and legislature; clarifying permitted uses of direct appropriations to the university of Minnesota (U of M); establishing the Minnesota discovery, research, and innoVation economy (MnDRIVE) funding program, specifying purpose; requiring the board of regents of the University of Minnesota (U of M) to submit investment proposals consistent with the goals and objectives of the MnDrive funding program as part of the board of regents biennial budget request to the legislature; requiring board to report to the legislature every two years; exempting certain schools from the private career school act; modifying standards for awarding academic credit for certain military training or service programs; requiring the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to adopt a veteran's preference policy in graduate student admissions; requesting the University of Minnesota (U of M) and private institutions to adopt similar policies; modifying public safety officers survivor education benefit eligibility; requiring reports to the legislature from the Minnesota office of higher education regarding higher education institutional participation in state student aid programs, from the university of Minnesota relating to medical school capacity, the undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs and administrative costs; requiring the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities, in cooperation with the commissioner of human services to convene a mental health issues summit; specifying revisor instruction; repealing the higher education advisory council and the onetime grant for high-school to college developmental transition program

ARTICLE 3 - STATE GRANT

Modifying the assigned family responsibility for independent students; setting state grant tuition caps and living and miscellaneous expense allowances; specifying a state grant award calculation for MnSCU part-time students

ARTICLE 4 - PROSPERITY ACT

Providing for the treatment of undocumented immigrants with respect to financial aid and tuition at public postsecondary institutions under certain conditions; specifying certain eligibility requirements
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