Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1511

E Providing for the financing of higher education and related + purposes, making
certain base cuts and cutting the growth ARTICLE 1 -
APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the higher education services office for
state+ grants for educational benefits to dependent children and to spouses of
+public safety officers killed in the line of duty, for interstate tuition
+reciprocity, for state work study, for child care grants, for Minitex and
MnLINK, for +the learning network, for income contingent loans for certain
medical +school graduates, for the college savings plan and for agency
administration+ of the post-high school planning, get ready and college
intervention +programs, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges
and universities +for instructional and noninstructional expenditures and for
the talented +youth mathematics program, to the board of regents of the
university +Minnesota for instructional and noninstructional expenditures, for
the agricultural experiment station and extension service, for the institute of
+technology, for system specials and for primary care education initiatives and
to the+ Mayo medical foundation for the medical school and for certain family
+practice and graduate residency programs; requiring or providing for certain
fund +transfers; specifying certain match requirements; requiring HESO to
periodically+ collect data from institutions disbursing state financial aid for
evaluation +and reporting purposes; continuing certain accountability
requirements; +designating the Northeast higher education district as the fiscal
agent for the +Arrowhead university center; requiring the MnSCU board of
trustees and +requesting the board of regents to report to the legislature on
progress under the +master academic plan for the metropolitan area, specifying
certain report +content requirements ARTICLE 2 � POLICY CHANGESRequiring and
providing for public and private post-secondary +educational institutions to
provide information on the risks of meningococcal +disease (meningitis) and the
availability and effectiveness of vaccines to +first time enrollees residing in
on-campus student housing; prohibiting public +or private post-secondary
institutions from entering into agreements to market +credit cards to students
or from providing certain information to credit +card issuers without student
consent, authorizing attorney general enforcement; +imposing grant penalties for
students enrolled in post-secondary institutions +convicted of damage to
property or violence during riots; modifying the +definition of assigned family
responsibility and defining fees for student cost of +attendance and grant
determination purposes; reducing the enrollment duration +limit for grant awards
eligibility, authorizing certain undergraduate students +to apply for and
receive grants for additional credits under certain +conditions; requiring the
calculation of state grants for final quarters or +semesters to subtract Pell
grant eligibility; making the grant application +deadline static and prohibiting
retroactive funding; reducing the maximum child care +grant award; increasing
the bonding authority of the higher education +facilities authority; expanding
the unique missions of the Fond du Lac tribal +and community college to
providing programs in support of the federal +land grant status, authorizing the
college to offer baccalaureate programs in +elementary education and in
sustainable development and assigning faculty +teaching upper division courses
at the college to the state university bargaining +unit; repealing the summer
scholarships for academic enrichment program and+ Akita program and advanced
placement (AP) and international baccalaureate +(IB) grantsARTICLE 3 � HESO
HOUSEKEEPING Eliminating the requirements for the higher education services
office+ to establish an account for the deposit of funds for youth community
+service program participants postservice benefits and for the tuition
reciprocity agreement with the state of Wisconsin to +be based on the existence
of an income tax reciprocity agreement between the +two states; increasing the
bonding authority of the office; modifying certain +provisions under the college
savings plan, modifying certain distribution +options and providing for the
establishment of minor trust accounts; modifying +the formula for calculation of
public safety officers survivor education +benefits; providing certain learn and
earn program incentives ARTICLE 4 � MNSCU ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGESAuthorizing
Minnesota state colleges and universities board of +trustees contracts with
chancellors, vice chancellors or presidents to contain+ a deferred compensation
plan; modifying a certain provision providing +for board of trustees negotiation
and purchase of annuity contracts, +authorizing the purchase of individual
custodial accounts; expanding the contracting +authority of the board;
regulating easements; authorizing the board to accept +federal money for
construction and equipping purposes; repealing a certain +requirement for the
board to operate a state university center in the +metropolitan area, the state
council on vocational technical education, certain local +contracting authority
and the authority to sell computers to staff and students (ja)