HF 2245
SECOND ENGROSSMENT
Omnibus E-12 education finance bill.
ARTICLE 1:
GENERAL EDUCATION
Section 1: Additional revenues; priority language
modified.
Section 2: Program established language modified.
Section 3:
Commissioner designation language modified.
Section 4: Student planning
language modified.
Section 5: Pupil unit language modified.
Section 6: Basic
revenue language modified.
Section 7: Gifted and talented revenue language
modified.
Section 8: Equity revenue language modified.
Section 9: Basic
alternative teacher compensation aid language modified.
Section 10:
Reallocating general education revenue for all-day kindergarten and
prekindergarten language modified.
Section 11: General education aid language
modified.
Section 12: County apportionment deduction language
modified.
Section 13: Adjustment for failure to meet federal maintenance of
effort language modified.
Section 14: Safe schools levy language
modified.
Section 15: Aid reduction; levy revenue recognition change language
modified.
Section 16: alternative attendance programs language
modified.
Section 17: Abatements language modified.
Section 18: Excess tax
increment language modified.
Section 19: Questions language modified.
Section
20: Report to commissioner of education language modified.
Section 21:
Application process language modified.
Section 22: Onetime energy assistance
aid language modified.
Section 23: School finance reform; task force
established language modified.
Section 24: Appropriations language
provided.
Section 25: Revisor's instruction language provided.
Section 26:
Repealer provided.
ARTICLE 2: EDUCATIION EXCELLENCE
Section 1: Early childhood
literacy programs language modified.
Section 2: Education records language
modified.
Section 3: Required academic standards language modified.
Section 4:
elective standards language modified.
Section 5: Graduation requirements;
course credits language modified.
Section 6: Identification language
modified.
Section 7: Raised academic achievement; advanced placement and
international baccalaureate program language modified.
Section 8: Gifted and
talented students programs language modified.
Section 9: Statewide testing and
reporting system language modified.
Section 10: Educational accountability
language modified.
Section 11: School performance report cards language
modified.
Section 12: Grounds for revocation, suspension, or denial language
modified.
Section 13: Coursework and training language provided.
Section 14:
Center functions language modified.
Section 15: Membership in economic
development, community and civic organizations language provided.
Section 16:
Contract; duties language modified.
Section 17: Alternative attendance programs
language modified.
Section 18: Concurrent enrollment program aid language
modified.
Section 19: Definitions language modified.
Section 20:
Authorization; notice; limitations on enrollment language modified.
Section 21:
Online learning parameters language modified.
Section 22: Department of
Education language modified.
Section 23: Formation of school language
modified.
Section 24: Related party lease costs language modified.
Section 25:
Pupil enrollment upon nonrenewal or termination of charter school contract
language modified.
Section 26: Multiracial diversity language
provided.
Section 27: Eligible services language modified.
Section 28: Awards
language modified.
Section 29: Parent and family involvement policy language
provided.
Section 30: Alternative delivery of specialized instruction services
language modified.
Section 31: Alternative instruction required before
assessment referral language modified.
Section 32: No child Left Behind review
language modified.
Section 33: Board of school administrators; rulemaking
authority language modified.
Section 34: Rulemaking required language
modified.
Section 35: Rulemaking authorized; supplemental education service
providers language modified.
Section 36: Rulemaking authority language
provided.
Section 37: Grant program to promote professional teaching standards
language modified.
Section 38: World languages pilot program grants language
provided.
Section 39: Bilingual and multilingual certificates; Department of
Education language provided.
Section 40: School performance report cards;
advisory group recommendations language modified.
Section 41: Advisory task
force on Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities and K-12
standards-based reform language provided.
Section 42: American Indian
scholarship language provided
Section 43: World languages resources language
provided.
Sections 44-46: Appropriations language provided.
Section 47:
Revisor's instruction language provided.
Section 48: Repealer language
provided.
ARTICLE 3: SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Sections 1-2: Definitions language
modified.
Section 3: Initial aid language modified.
Section 4: Nonresident
tuition rate; other costs language modified.
Section 5: School of parents'
choice language modified.
Section 6: Extended school year language
modified.
Section 7: Statewide hearing loss early education intervention
coordinator language modified.
Section 8: Travel aid language
modified.
Section 9: Program and aid approval language modified.
Section 10:
Litigation costs; annual report language modified.
Section 11: Definitions
language modified.
Section 12: Special education initial aid language
modified.
Section 13: State total special education aid language
modified.
Section 14: School district special education aid language
modified.
Section 15: Special education forecast maintenance of effort language
modified.
Section 16: Alternative delivery initial aid adjustment language
modified.
Section 17: Definitions language modified.
Section 18: Initial
excess cost aid language modified.
Section 19: State total special education
excess cost aid language modified.
Section 20: Out-of-state tuition language
modified.
Section 21: Alternative attendance programs language
modified.
Section 22: Special education tuition billing for fiscal years 2006,
2007, and 2008 language modified.
Section 23: Task force to compare federal and
state special education requirements language modified.
Section 24:
Appropriations language provided.
Section 25: Repealer provided.
ARTICLE 4:
FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Section 1: Citation language modified.
Section 2:
Policy and purpose language modified.
Section 3: Approval authority;
application forms language modified.
Section 4: Grant application process
language modified.
Section 5: Definitions language modified.
Section 6: Debt
service appropriation language modified.
Section 7: Health and safety revenue
language modified.
Section 8: Capital project levy referendum language
modified.
Section 9: No election language modified.
Section 10: Job
opportunity building zone property language modified.
Section 11: School
technology and operating capital aid language provided.
Section 12: Bonding
authorization language provided.
Section 13: Tax levy for debt service language
modified.
Section 14: Administrative lease levy; Spring Lake Park language
modified.
Section 15: Health and safety revenue; Clearbrook-Gonvik language
provided.
Section 16: Appropriations language provided.
ARTICLE 5: NUTRITION
AND ACCOUNTING
Section 1: Budgets; form of notification language
modified.
Section 2: Budget approval language modified.
Section 3: Account
transfer for reorganizing districts language modified.
Section 4: Elimination
of reserve accounts language provided.
Section 5: School lunch aid computation
language modified.
Section 6: Building allocation language modified.
Section
7: Levy authority for unfunded severance and retirement costs language
modified.
Section 8: Notice to commissioner; forms language modified.
Section
9: Proposed levy language modified.
Section 10: Overlapping jurisdictions
language modified.
Section 11: Plainview-Elgin-Millville; consolidated district
fund balance calculations language provided.
Section 12: Fund transfer language
modified.
Section 13: Appropriations language provided.
Section 14: Repealer
provided.
ARTICLE 6: LIBRARIES
Section 1: Services to the blind and physically
handicapped language provided.
Section 2: Limitation language
modified.
Section 3: Department of Education; library appropriations language
provided.
ARTICLE 7: STATE AGENCIES
Section 1: Cross-subsidy report language
modified.
Section 2: Disposition of license fee language modified.
Section 3:
Rulemaking authority; career and technical education language provided.
Section
4: Appropriations; Department of Education language provided.
Section 5:
Appropriations; Minnesota state academics language provided.
Section 6:
Appropriations; Perpich center for arts education language provided.
Section 7:
Appropriations; Department of Public Safety language provided.
ARTICLE 8: PUPIL
TRANSPORTATION STANDARDS
Section 1: Early childhood family education
participants language modified.
Section 2: Student training language
modified.
Section 3: Cellular phone language provided.
Section 4: Personal
cellular phone call prohibition language modified.
Section 5: Driver seat belt
language modified.
Section 6: National standards adopted language
modified.
Section 7: Applicability language modified.
Section 8: Electrical
system; battery language modified.
Section 9: Identification language
modified.
Section 10: Seat and crash barriers language modified.
Section 11:
Driver's license classifications, endorsements, exemptions language
modified.
Section 12: Exception for certain school bus drivers language
modified.
Section 13: Training language modified.
Section 14: Rules revised;
commissioner of public safety language modified.
Section 15: Repealer
provided.
ARTICLE 9: EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ADULT PROGRAMS
Section 1:
Distribution of appropriation language modified.
Section 2: Application
requirements language modified.
Section 3: Full-day requirements language
provided.
Section 4: Developmental screening program information language
modified.
Section 5: Establishment; purpose language modified.
Section 6:
Program requirements language modified.
Section 7: Teachers language
modified.
Section 8: Plan and program data submission requirements language
provided.
Section 9: Revenue language modified.
Section 10: Early childhood
family education levy language modified.
Section 11: Use of revenue restricted
language modified.
Section 12: Home visiting levy language modified.
Section
13: Program requirements language modified.
Section 14: after-school community
learning programs language provided.
Section 15: State total adult basic
education aid language modified.
Section 16: Adult basic education program aid
limit language modified.
Section 17: Appropriation language provided.
Section
18: Appropriations; Department of Health language provided.
Section 19:
Repealer provided.
ARTICLE 10: EDUCATION FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS
Section 1:
General education aid language modified.
Section 2: Enrollment options
transportation language modified.
Section 3: Abatement revenue language
modified.
Section 4: Consolidation transition language modified.
Section 5:
nonpublic pupil education aid language modified.
Section 6: Nonpublic pupil
transportation language modified.
Section 7: Charter school building lease aid
language modified.
Section 8: Charter school startup aid language
modified.
Section 9: Integration aid language modified.
Section 10:
Interdistrict desegregation or integration grants language modified.
Section
11: Tribal contract school language modified.
Section 12: Special education
language modified.
Section 13: Aid for children with disabilities language
modified.
Section 14: Travel for home-based services language
modified.
Section 15: Transition for disabled students language
modified.
Section 16: Health and safety revenue language modified.
Section 17:
Debt service equalization language modified.
Section 18: Traditional school
breakfast; kindergarten milk language modified.
Section 19: School readiness
language modified.
Section 20: Early childhood family education aid language
modified.
Section 21: Health and developmental screening aid language
modified.
Section 22: Early childhood Part C language modified.
Section 23:
Community education aid language modified.
Section 24: School-age care revenue
language modified.
Section 25: Adult basic education aid language
modified.
ARTICLE 11: TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS
Section 1: Revenue
language modified.
Section 2: Taxable property language modified.
Section 3:
Account transfer for statutory operating debt language modified.
Section 4:
Statutory operating debt language modified.
Section 5: Debt elimination
language modified.
Section 6: Applicability language modified.
Section 7: Net
unreserved general fund balances language modified.
Section 8: Foundation staff
language modified.
Section 9: Allocations from cooperative unites language
modified.
Section 10: Local interagency agreements language modified.
Section
11: Procedural safeguards; parent and child rights language modified.
Section
12: Compliant procedure language modified.
Section 13: Interagency dispute
procedure language modified.
Section 14: Internet access for students language
modified.
Section 15: Training and experience index language modified.
Section
16: Pupil unit language modified.
Section 17: Reporting language
modified.
Section 18: Telecommunications aid language modified.
Section 19:
Repealer provided.
JAJ 5/23/7