SF 2786

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to higher education; appropriating money and 
  1.3             reducing earlier appropriations; modifying certain 
  1.4             grant provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2001 
  1.5             Supplement, section 136A.101, subdivision 5a; Laws 
  1.6             2001, First Special Session chapter 1, article 1, 
  1.7             section 2, subdivision 2. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9   Section 1.  [HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS; REDUCTIONS.] 
  1.10     The dollar amounts in the columns under "APPROPRIATIONS" 
  1.11  are added to or, if shown in parentheses are subtracted from the 
  1.12  appropriations in Laws 2001, First Special Session chapter 1 or 
  1.13  other law to the specified agencies.  The appropriations are 
  1.14  from the general fund or other named fund and are available for 
  1.15  the fiscal years indicated for each purpose.  The figure "2002" 
  1.16  or "2003" means that the addition to or subtraction from the 
  1.17  appropriations listed under the figure are for the fiscal year 
  1.18  ending June 30, 2002, or June 30, 2003, respectively. 
  1.19                              SUMMARY 
  1.20  APPROPRIATION REDUCTIONS                             66,261,000 
  1.21  CANCELLATIONS                                         4,318,000 
  1.22                          SUMMARY BY FUND
  1.23                            2002          2003           TOTAL
  1.24  GENERAL            $  (2,096,000) $ (64,165,000) $ (66,261,000)
  1.25                                             APPROPRIATIONS 
  1.26                                         Available for the Year 
  1.27                                             Ending June 30 
  1.28                                            2002         2003 
  2.1   Sec. 2.  BOARD OF REGENTS OF  
  2.2   THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA       $       -0-     $ (33,242,000)
  2.3   Sec. 3.  BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
  2.4   THE MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES
  2.5   AND UNIVERSITIES                          -0-       (31,999,000)
  2.6   Sec. 4.  HIGHER EDUCATION
  2.7   SERVICES OFFICE  
  2.8   Subdivision 1.  Total
  2.9   Appropriations                        (2,096,000)     1,076,000
  2.10  Subd. 2.  State Grants  
  2.11       (120,000)      5,580,000 
  2.12  Subd. 3.  Interstate Tuition Reciprocity 
  2.13       (500,000)       (750,000) 
  2.14  Subd. 4.  Minitex and MnLink 
  2.15       (422,000)       (945,000) 
  2.16  In addition to the amounts listed 
  2.17  above, $4,318,000 from the 
  2.18  appropriation in Laws 1997, chapter 
  2.19  183, article 1, section 2, subdivision 
  2.20  8, is canceled to the general fund on 
  2.21  June 30, 2002. 
  2.22  Subd. 5.  Learning Network Grants 
  2.23       (270,000)      (900,000) 
  2.24  Subd. 6.  Minnesota College Savings Plan 
  2.25       (500,000)    (1,520,000) 
  2.26  Subd. 7.  Agency Administration 
  2.27       (284,000)      (389,000) 
  2.28     Sec. 2.  Laws 2001, First Special Session chapter 1, 
  2.29  article 1, section 2, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  2.30  Subd. 2.  State Grants               113,668,000    122,598,000 
  2.31  If the appropriation in this 
  2.32  subdivision for either year is 
  2.33  insufficient, the appropriation for the 
  2.34  other year is available for it.  
  2.35  The legislature intends that the higher 
  2.36  education services office make full 
  2.37  grant awards in each year of the 
  2.38  biennium.  
  2.39  For the biennium, the private 
  2.40  institution tuition maximum shall be 
  2.41  $8,764 in the first year and $8,983 
  2.42  $9,202 in the second year for four-year 
  2.43  institutions and $6,744 in the first 
  2.44  year and $6,913 $7,419 in the second 
  2.45  year for two-year institutions. 
  2.46  This appropriation contains money to 
  2.47  set the living and miscellaneous 
  3.1   expense allowance at $5,405 in each 
  3.2   year. 
  3.3   This appropriation contains money to 
  3.4   match scholarship grants made under the 
  3.5   President's Student Service Scholarship 
  3.6   program of the Corporation for National 
  3.7   Service to students attending Minnesota 
  3.8   high schools and who will attend a 
  3.9   Minnesota post-secondary institution.  
  3.10  Not more than one matching grant of 
  3.11  $500 may be made for each high school 
  3.12  per year.  
  3.13  Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, 
  3.14  section 136A.1211, savings in the state 
  3.15  grant program in fiscal years 2002 and 
  3.16  2003 resulting from any increase in the 
  3.17  maximum federal grant over $3,750 or 
  3.18  from any other source must be used to 
  3.19  provide additional decreases in the 
  3.20  family responsibility for independent 
  3.21  students up to an additional ten 
  3.22  percent from the decrease in this bill 
  3.23  and to increase funding for work study 
  3.24  programs for state grants. 
  3.25     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 
  3.26  136A.101, subdivision 5a, is amended to read: 
  3.27     Subd. 5a.  [ASSIGNED FAMILY RESPONSIBILITY.] "Assigned 
  3.28  family responsibility" means the amount of a family contribution 
  3.29  to a student's cost of attendance, as determined by a federal 
  3.30  need analysis, except that, beginning for the 1998-1999 academic 
  3.31  year, up to $25,000 in savings and other assets shall be 
  3.32  subtracted from the federal calculation of net worth before 
  3.33  determining the contribution.  For dependent students, the 
  3.34  assigned family responsibility is the parental contribution.  
  3.35  For independent students with dependents other than a spouse, 
  3.36  the assigned family responsibility is the student contribution. 
  3.37  For independent students without dependents other than a spouse, 
  3.38  the assigned family responsibility is 80 percent of the student 
  3.39  contribution.  Beginning in fiscal year 2002, the assigned 
  3.40  family responsibility for all independent students is reduced an 
  3.41  additional ten percent, and 20 percent in fiscal year 2003 and 
  3.42  after.