All Native Americans Legislation - Minnesota

1E Providing for the financing of prekindergarten through grade 12 education programs and services ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition; modifying general education levy aid; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing to meet federal special education maintenance of effort; allowing referendum market value to determine district state aid adjustment abatement; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the specific enrollment options in nonresident districts ARTICLE 2 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE Requiring charter and nonpublic schools to transfer student records to student school of residence, requiring inclusion of form disciplinary actions in records transfer; requiring school district to adopt gifted and talented students acceleration policies and procedures; modifying secondary students state

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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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1E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the legislature for general operations and for health care access, to the constitutional officers, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology, to the office of administrative hearings, to the commissioner of administration for state facilities, state and community and administrative management services, for matching grants for public television, to the capitol area architectural and planning (CAAP) board, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER), to the commissioner of revenue for tax system and accounts receivable [...]

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Relating to appropriations ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Providing for a summary of appropriations; providing for the department of human services forecast adjustment; reducing appropriations for children and economic assistance grants, basic health care grants and continuing care grants ARTICLE 2 - PREKINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 EDUCATION A. GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying appropriations for general education aid, referendum tax base replacement aid, enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and nonpublic pupil transportation B. EDUCATION EXCELLENCE Modifying appropriations for charter school building lease aid, charter school startup cost aid, integration aid, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants and tribal contract school aid C. SPECIAL PROGRAMS

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Relating to early childhood education; establishing and providing early childhood community hub planning and implementation grants for school districts and tribal schools to increase school readiness, requiring collaboration among early childhood, health and family services and the K-12 education system, parental information and education, kindergarten transition services and comprehensive early care and education programs for low income families, requiring grant recipients to use grants to plan and implement early childhood community hubs, specifying responsibilities, eligibility, program components, grant application process, staff qualifications, match requirement, advisory committees and grant applicants review and award requirements; establishing and providing prekindergarten through grade 3 program grants to develop community based public school collaborative programs to promote school readiness, future school [...]

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Relating to education ARTICLE 1 - STUDENT FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMS Modifying Indian scholarship provisions relating to student eligibility, scholarship use, costs of attendance and award amounts; allowing the ACHIEVE scholarship program to request additional student documentation, modifying student eligibility requirements, application deadline and scholarship disbursement ARTICLE 2 - PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS Specifying nondegree program requirements; limiting use of the terms academy and institute to degree granting schools; permitting conditional approval for degrees or names for new schools; prohibiting certain school advertising or representation; clarifying school fees for programs degree and nondegree programs; requiring surety bonds from certain schools with a private career school license ARTICLE 3 - MINNESOTA GI BILL Modifying the cost of attendance for [...]

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"Freedom to Breath Act of 2005"; modifying certain provisions under the clean indoor air act; prohibiting smoking in places of employment and in public transportation vehicles, defining smoking, indoor area, places of employment and public transportation and modifying the definition of public place; requiring family home or group family day care providers to disclose to parents or guardians of children cared for on the premises of the existence of smoking on the premises outside the hours of operation; expanding the prohibition on smoking in health care facilities to licensed residential facilities for children and modifying the prohibition on smoking in nursing and boarding care homes; authorizing smoking in public transportation vehicles used for personal purposes by the driver, passengers disclosure requirement; strengthening the responsibility of proprietors in charge of public places to prevent smoking; authorizing [...]

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2E Relating to human services ARTICLE 1 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE Requiring the commissioner of public safety to create a grant process for crisis intervention team training for local police and sheriff departments; specifying consultation and training requirements; requiring sheriffs and local corrections to use a mental health screening tool approved by the commissioner of corrections in consultation with the commissioner of human services and local correction staff to identify persons with mental illness; providing for a county jail reentry project to promote public safety, prevent recidivism and promote successful reintegration of individuals identified as having mental illness into the community, specifying grant application and program components; requiring the commissioner of corrections to develop a fair, firm and consistent protocol for inmates to have an opportunity to be released from disciplinary [...]

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1E Relating to human services ARTICLE 1 - SELF-SUFFICIENTY PROVISIONS Establishing family stabilization services under the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) to serve families failing to make significant progress within MFIP due to certain barriers to employment and to stabilize and improve the lives of families at risk of long term welfare dependency; specifying certain eligibility requirements for MFIP or diversionary work program (DWP) participants; prohibiting the commissioner of human services from moving programs or activities funded with MFIP or temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) funds to other funding sources without legislative approval; requiring participation in family stabilization services by all caregivers; requiring county agencies to provide the services through a case management model, requiring the assignment of case managers to participating families within [...]

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Creating an alcohol health impact fund and imposing an alcohol health impact fee on distilled spirits, wines, cider, miniatures and fermented malt beverages; requiring the commissioners of public safety, corrections and human services to certify to the commissioner of finance costs attributable to alcohol and controlled substance use and net tax collection; defining emergency and homeless shelter zones for purpose of controlled substance sales crimes prosecution expansion; including school bus stops within the definition of school zone; expanding driving while impaired (DWI) nonfelony violations mandatory penalties conditions; requiring chemical use assessments to be conducted as early as possible after arrest; authorizing jurisdictional courts to order chemical use assessments; requiring the commissioner of human services to adopt criteria to be used for prostitution assessment and treatment during presentence investigation;[...]

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Relating to waters; "Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact" ARTICLE 1 - SHORT TITLE, DEFINITIONS, PURPOSES AND DURATION Defining water adaptive management and other terms; specifying legislative findings and purpose ARTICLE 2 - ORGANIZATION Creating the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence river basin water resources council, specifying membership, alternates, voting, organization, procedure, existing offices and agencies use, status, jurisdiction, immunities and privileges; authorizing the council to constitute and empower advisory committees; permitting public, federal, state, tribal, local government, academic expert and water resources agencies, sectors and interest groups advisory committees participation ARTICLE 3 - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES Specifying sovereign general powers and council powers, allowing the council to conduct research [...]

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1E Expanding the early childhood family education (ECFE) program to include programming for parents and children at risk of not being kindergarten ready, allowing programs to use early learning guidelines developed by the commissioner of human services or the early childhood indicators of progress developed by the commissioner of education; requiring the commissioner of education to develop a program accountability plan focusing on race, ethnicity and income demographics to ensure ECFE statewide accessibility; increasing ECFE funding; requiring the commissioner of education to implement a kindergarten readiness assessment based on a certain model developed by the department of education, to expand to all districts developmental assessments voluntarily administered to entering kindergartners and to set periodic progress milestones in the number of children demonstrating proficiency on assessment measures; requiring and providing [...]

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3E Relating to retirement; ARTICLE 1 - POSTRETIREMENT PROVISIONS Requiring the state board of investment to annually determine a composite funded ratio for state pension assets, modifying the postretirement adjustment calculation, requiring the board to determine fund total fair market value, limiting the postretirement adjustment percentage, providing a lost purchasing power increase for the Minnesota postretirement investment fund and specifying conditions, requiring a legislative report under condition of excess assets ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA POSTRETIREMENT INVESTMENT FUND DISSOLUTION Modifying the procedures used by the state board of investment to determine postretirement adjustments for the Minneapolis employees retirement fund; providing for Minnesota postretirement investment fund dissolution according to a transition schedule, providing for postretirement adjustments, requiring a

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