HF 755

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to higher education; changing the method of
charging student fees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin OPTIONAL STUDENT FEES.
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new text begin The Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities must provide students with the opportunity to
affirmatively choose to pay any optional student fee to fund
student groups. These optional fees must not be assessed by
requiring a student to opt out of the fee. A student must be
provided with a description of the focus or mission of the
student groups that are funded with the optional fee. The Board
of Regents of the University of Minnesota are requested to
provide all students with opportunity to affirmatively choose to
pay any optional student fee used to fund student groups and to
not require students to opt out of these fees. For the purposes
of this section, "optional student fee" means any fee to support
one or more student-run organizations that operate with or
without faculty advisement.
new text end