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Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing independent school district #671, Hills-Beaver Creek to permanently
transfer up to a certain amount from the reserved for disability accessibility
account to the reserved for health and safety account without a levy reduction
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education finance; authorizing intermediate school district boards
to borrow money in anticipation of the receipt of federal and state aids and
membership fees and tuition payments from member school districts, specifying
borrowing limitations; requiring enabling resolutions and certain notification
requirements; specifying certain aid reduction for repayment limitations and
certain repayment conditions for school districts and intermediate school
districts
(je)

Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Motion to concur with Senate amendments

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Relating to the financing and operation of state and local government ARTICLE 1 - AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND PROPERTY TAX REFUNDS Increasing the homeowners maximum allowable property tax state refund; increasing property tax refunds for homesteads; further increasing the maximum homeowner property tax refund across all existing income brackets for refunds payable in 2009 and later; providing an adjustment for inflation; making permanent city aid base adjustments for Taylors Falls, Browns Valley and Mahnomen; granting temporary aid base adjustments to Newport, Crookston and Rockville; making county transition aid permanent at the 2007 level; granting money to Pine county; modifying township aid; eliminating the taconite aid offset from the LGA formula; modifying the LGA distribution; increasing the LGA appropriation; providing for the increase payments to counties by the commissioner of natural resources [...]

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Latest Action: 05/31/2007 - Governor's action Veto Line item vetoes - Page 20 lines 20.11-20.14;

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HF 2245 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus E-12 education finance bill. ARTICLE 1: GENERAL EDUCATION Section 1: Additional revenues; priority language modified. Section 2: Program established language modified. Section 3: Commissioner designation language modified. Section 4: Student planning language modified. Section 5: Pupil unit language modified. Section 6: Basic revenue language modified. Section 7: Gifted and talented revenue language modified. Section 8: Equity revenue language modified. Section 9: Basic alternative teacher compensation aid language modified. Section 10: Reallocating general education revenue for all-day kindergarten and prekindergarten language modified. Section 11: General education aid language modified. Section 12: County apportionment deduction language modified. [...]

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Latest Action: 04/19/2007 - HF substituted by motion [HF6]

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3E Relating to education; ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition, general education revenue formula, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, operating capital levy and aid, transportation sparsity revenue allowance, equity revenue, district equity gap and index, equity levy and aid, transition revenue, equity allowance, levy and aid, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, alternative teacher compensation levy and aid, general education aid; permitting district and charter school grade level acceleration instructional programming; requiring charter schools and area learning centers to inform students and parents of learning year option; requiring a consolidated tax rate establishment and permitting district consolidated levy, limit; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing [...]

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Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing independent school district #463, Eden Valley-Watkins to permanently
transfer a certain amount of money from the debt redemption fund to the general
fund to recover cost of remodeling an environmental hazard
(je)

Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing an individual employed by Olmsted county, the city of Rochester and
independent school district #535 to apply for a retirement annuity under the
public employees retirement association (PERA) under certain conditions
(me)

Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to commissioner of public safety for grants to independent
school district #625, St. Paul for the costs associated with teen courts in the
St. Paul public schools
(je)

Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Moving the state primary election from September to October and making
conforming amendments, modifying municipal and school district primary election
dates in even numbered years to conform to primary date change
(je)

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Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education; requiring school performance report cards to indicate
student to teacher ratios; defining classroom teacher; providing for class size
reduction measurement and reporting; requiring the commissioner of education to
establish target class size ratios, specifying certain class size ratios under
certain conditions; requiring the commissioner to collect district by district
class size information to determine districts class size ratios and compare the
ratios to the target class size ratios and post the results on the department
Web site; requiring the commissioner to submit an annual report to the
legislature by a certain date
(je)

Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing independent school district #480, Onamia to levy and promote the
colocation of city and school district services; authorizing district to levy
for fiscal year 2008 and recognize the revenue for fiscal year 2008
(me)

Latest Action: 01/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing independent school district #2895, Jackson County Central to
permanently transfer up to a certain amount of money from the reserved for
operating capital account to the undesignated balance in the general fund
(ra)

Latest Action: 04/10/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to the teachers retirement association (TRA); providing a retirement
annuity increase to a certain former Minneapolis teacher based on an erroneous
benefit estimate, specifying an increase amount
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Establishing a teachers of color financial aid pilot program under the
supervision of the office of higher education, specifying eligibility; allowing
partnerships between public institutions and school districts and requiring
partnerships between Winona state university and independent school district
#535, Rochester and St. Cloud state university and independent school district
#281, Robbinsdale; allowing expenditures for program promotion, appropriating
money for the teachers of color financial aid pilot program
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing independent school district #698, Floodwood, to transfer up to a
certain amount of money from the disabled access fund to the general fund
without a levy reduction
(me)

Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for Kittson central school
district, #2171, Hallock ice arena, requiring nonstate sources match
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education finance; adjusting transition revenue for independent
school district #356, Lancaster
(rt)

Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Chief auth stricken, shown as co-auth Stumpf

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2E Providing for the financing of prekindergarten through grade 12 and early childhood and family education programs and services ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying annual reporting requirements of district anticipated expenditures and passage rates for GRAD purposes by school superintendents; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into interstate agreements with adjoining states to establish an enrollment options program, specifying agreement specifications, conditions, and pupil accounting (pupil unit); requiring the commissioner of education to establish procedures relating to the application process, funds payment or collection and data collection; providing for an exclusion from procedure requirements for certain smaller enrollment transfers; providing a tuition exemption for enrollment transfers under terms of agreement; modifying general education revenue calculation for 2010 and [...]

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Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of education and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds for a grant to independent school district #242, Alden
Conger to acquire land, design, construct, furnish and equip a new multifunction
facility in the city of Alden to provide services to all age groups, including a
community fitness center
(rt)