Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF1133

Relating to family and early childhood and K-12 education programsARTICLE 1 -
GENERAL EDUCATIONModifying the formulas for the determination of nonpublic pupil
transportation revenue and of learning year pupil units; including class size
reduction revenue in the general education revenue formula; modifying the
formula for determination of general education basic revenue and increasing the
basic revenue formula allowance; modifying the skills revenue formula; providing
for class size reduction revenue, specifying eligibility certain approved plan
and annual reporting requirements; excluding transition revenue general
education revenue for general education levy determination purposes; changing
compensatory education revenue to basic skills revenue; modifying the referendum
equalization revenue formula; modifying the definition of cumulative amount
guaranteed for payment of aids and credits to school districts; including
referendum equalization revenue in the general education aid adjustment formulas
for alternative attendance programs and charter schools; eliminating the repeal
of a certain prior change in the referendum equalization revenue formula and
delaying the repeal of certain general education levy and aid provisions;
appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for
general and supplemental education and certain transportation aids, for district
cooperation revenue, for special education litigation and hearing costs and
court placement revenue and for assistance to school districts in implementing
class size reduction; repealing certain provisions relating to student
transportation safety revenue and aid, school bus safety, targeted needs,
special programs and integration transportation revenue, certain appropriation
transfers for the distribution of school aids, a certain prior appropriation to
expand the wide area transportation service pilot project and historic building
revenue, levy and aid ARTICLE 2 - SPECIAL PROGRAMSModifying the area learning
center reserved revenue requirement for member school districts; modifying the
formulas for secondary vocational aid and the aid guarantee; reducing the state
total school to work program disabled revenue and increasing state total limited
English proficiency (LEP) programs revenue for fiscal years 2000 and 2001;
requiring and providing for an integration aid adjustment for pupils attending
charter schools; modifying the program growth factor and eliminating the aid and
levy percentage factors for special education revenue determination purposes;
changing state total special education revenue to state total special education
aid and increasing the amount; defining average daily membership and program
growth factor for special education excess cost aid purposes; providing for the
determination of excess cost aid for fiscal years 2000 and 2001; providing for
initial, state total special education and district special education excess
cost aids; appropriating money to the department of children, families and
learning for American Indian language and culture and education programs,
post-secondary and teacher preparation grants, scholarships and tribal contract
schools, for magnet school grants, for integration programs, for special
education aid, for aid for children with a disability, for travel for home based
services, for special education excess cost aid, for school to work programs for
students with disabilities, for special programs equalization and integration
aids, for additional revenue for homeless students and for interdistrict
desegregation or integration transportation grants; repealing certain provisions
relating to requirements for American sign language English interpreters, LEP
programs aid, additional revenue for homeless students, assessment and placement
of children with disabilities, special education aid, levy equalization revenue
and excess cost aid, the options plus pilot program, a certain prior
appropriation for Mexican origin education grants and in-school behavior
intervention grants ARTICLE 3 - LIFEWORK DEVELOPMENTAppropriating money to the
department of children, families and learning for secondary vocational education
aid, for youth works programs, for education and employment transitions program
grants and for the learn and earn graduation achievement program; repealing a
certain provision requiring the state to pay aids for secondary vocational
education programs on a current funding basis and a certain provision providing
for the allocation of work study grants to institutions by the higher education
services office (HESO) ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGYAuthorizing
commissioner of finance agreements or contracts relating to the disclosure of
information to facilitate the issuance of debt obligations by school districts
in accordance with federal securities laws, rules and regulations; authorizing
long term lease agreements under the metropolitan magnet school program;
appropriating money to the department of children families and learning for
health and safety, debt service, interactive television (ITV) and alternative
facilities bonding aids ARTICLE 5 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCEModifying the formula
for general education revenue for charter schools; eliminating certain
restrictions on the acceptance of other aids, grants and revenue by charter
schools; providing for the payment of aids to charter schools; providing for
extended instruction program grants to ensure success on the basic skills test;
eliminating the authority of the commissioner of children, families and learning
to charge school districts for software development costs; appropriating money
to the department of children families and learning for statewide testing, for
advanced placement (AP), international baccalaureate (IB) and collaborative
urban educator programs, for charter school building lease aid and start-up
grants, for training and staff development for learning academies, for a grant
to independent school district 625, St. Paul for a community based school
program, for a grant to the university of Minnesota for development and
implementation of regional partnership centers to connect K-12 schools with
higher education research and resources, for residential academies operating
costs and for extended instruction grants; repealing the school enrichment
partnership program ARTICLE 6 - OTHER PROGRAMSRequiring the reporting of student
birth dates to superintendents; establishing certain qualifications for teaching
English as a second language; modifying the procedure for school boards adoption
of proposed plats; modifying the authority of school districts to spread out
abatement levies; clarifying certain provisions to reflect the abolishment of
the state board of education, transferring certain responsibilities to the
commissioner of children, families and learning; appropriating money to the
department of children, families and learning for abatement, nonpublic pupil
education, consolidation transition and nonpublic pupil transportation aids ;
repealing the Minnesota family connections act ARTICLE 7 - NUTRITION
PROGRAMSEstablishing a temporary fast break to learning grant program to ensure
student daily access to a nutritious breakfast; appropriating money to the
department of children, families and learning for school lunch and food storage
and summer food service replacement aids, for school breakfast programs outreach
and for fast break to learning grants; repealing the school lunch program
revolving fund ARTICLE 8 - LIBRARIESAppropriating money to the department of
children, families and learning for basic support grants to public libraries,
for multicounty, multitype library systems and for regional library
telecommunications aid; repealing the librarians of color program, a certain
requirement for review of Minnesota school to work student organization
foundation contracts and certain prior library appropriationsARTICLE 9 -
CHILDREN AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMSIncluding the department of children,
families and learning and child care assistance programs under a certain
provision providing for the sharing of certain welfare data; modifying certain
child care programs provisions; modifying certain definitions and eliminating or
changing certain references to the AFDC program; requiring the commissioner of
children, families and learning to supervise child care programs administered by
and to provide training and other support services to counties; modifying the
required use of unspent funds in the portability pool; modifying the at home
infant child care program, student eligibility under the basic sliding fee
program and certain provider choice provisions; requiring the registration of
nonlicensed providers and specifying certain immunizations recordkeeping
requirements; providing for employment child care assistance to full time
students; eliminating a certain parent fee reduction restriction; modifying
certain child care rate provisions; providing for liability insurance coverage
for family services collaboratives; changing the extended day program to the
school age care program; appropriating money to the department of children,
families and learning for learning readiness program revenue, for early
childhood family education (ECFE) and health and developmental screening aids,
for way to grow and head start programs, for extended day aid, for basic sliding
fee child care, for MFIP child care assistance and for child care development
grants; providing for the transfer of certain money from the federal TANF fund
to the child care and development fund for basic sliding fee child care
assistance; repealing certain obsolete provisions, a certain basic sliding fee
program reserve account requirement and the Minnesota early childhood care and
education council ARTICLE 10 - COMMUNITY AND SYSTEMS CHANGEAppropriating money
to the department of children, families and learning for family collaboratives,
for community education and adults with disabilities program aids and for
hearing impaired adults programsARTICLE 11 - PREVENTION AND
INTERVENTIONAppropriating money to the department of children, families and
learning for violence prevention education grants, for abused children programs,
for the children's trust fund and for after school enrichment and alcohol
impaired driver grants; repealing extended day revenue, levy and aidARTICLE 12 -
SELF SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNINGRequiring proceeds from the sale or
licensing of software products or services developed by the department of
children, families and learning or custom developed to be credited to the
weatherization program to support weatherization activities; modifying the
formula for adult basic education aid; appropriating money to the department of
children, families and learning for Minnesota economic opportunity grants, for
transitional housing and food bank programs, for adult basic and graduation aids
and for GED tests; repealing the lead abatement program ARTICLE 13 - STATE
AGENCIESChanging the name of the department of children, families and learning
to the department of education, children and families and expanding the purpose
of the department; retransferring the powers and duties of the department
relating to drug policy and violence prevention to the department of public
safety; authorizing the Lola and Rudy Perpich Minnesota center for arts
education to start certain school years prior to Labor day; appropriating money
to the department of children, families and learning for the department, for the
Lola and Rudy Perpich Minnesota center for arts education and for the Faribault
academies; specifying certain reference change and renumbering instructions to
the revisor of statutes (ra)