Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF0924

2E Relating to higher education

ARTICLE 1- HIGHER EDUCTION
APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to
the office of higher education for state grants, child care grants, state
work-study, Indian scholarships, intervention for college attendance program
grants, the Midwest higher education compact, united family medicine residency
program, interstate tuition reciprocity, the Minnesota college savings plan,
MnLINK gateway and Minitex, other programs, agency administration, and to TANF
work-study, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) board of
trustees for the central office and the shared services unit, operations and
maintenance and the learning network of Minnesota, to the University of
Minnesota board of regents for operations and maintenance, primary care
education initiatives, special appropriations including the agriculture and
extension service, health sciences, institute of technology, system special,
University of Minnesota and Mayo foundation partnership and the academic health
center, to the Mayo medical foundation for the medical school, and the family
practice and graduate residency program; limiting tuition at MnSCU and the
University of Minnesota; allocating MSCU salary savings; providing for
insufficiency in state grant appropriations and providing for award reduction
calculation; requiring the office of higher education to study graduate
education in for-profit institutions and report to the legislature by a certain
date

ARTICLE 2 - HIGHER EDUCATION STATUTORY CHANGES

Modifying the
definition of senior citizen; modifying self loan revenue bonds annual
certificate of need provisions; modifying the Minnesota college saving plan;
prohibiting the use of state funds for human cloning, specifying other certain
scientific research areas as unaffected; increasing the number of semesters for
education benefits eligibility; repealing matching grant provisions under the
Minnesota college savings plan
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