Latest Action: 03/30/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education; authorizing and providing for full participation in
extracurricular activities by charter school students residing in the district
under certain conditions; specifying certain advance notice requirements of the
students relating to intent to participate and certain information transmission
duties of the charter schools; authorizing school boards to charge the charter
schools for certain extracurricular activities and transportation costs and to
charge certain student fees
(ra)

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: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Creating an early retirement incentive for school district employees for school
districts with declining enrollment; specifying district eligibility and
qualifying employee requirements; authorizing an employee to purchase additional
service credit; authorizing the school board to offer a former employee
continued employer paid health insurance coverage under certain conditions;
authorizing the board to make a payment to qualifying employees; providing for
early retirement incentive aid; appropriating money to the commissioner of
education for payment of early retirement incentive aid
(je)

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

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Relating to energy; increasing the installed capacity of wind energy conversion
systems owned by school boards
(je)

Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing school boards to spend staff development revenue on CPR and
automatic external defibrillator training
(je)

Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education; authorizing potential school sites and school boards to
appeal to the commissioner of education for a ruling on the decision to enter
into a school site management agreement
(me)

Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education; clarifying school board resolution requirements for
structurally balanced school district budgets; modifying certain reporting
requirements; authorizing the commissioner of education to impose a state aid
penalty for nonsubmittal of reports by a school board
(je)

Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Author stricken Neuville

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Relating to education; authorizing and providing for full participation in
extracurricular activities by charter school students residing in the district
under certain conditions; specifying certain advance notice requirements of the
students relating to intent to participate and certain information transmission
duties of the charter schools; authorizing school boards to charge the charter
schools for certain extracurricular activities and transportation costs and to
charge certain student fees
(ra)


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

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Establishing the minimum length of a school day; authorizing a school board to
increase the length of a day for student instruction
(je)

Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring school boards to inform parents of the right to refuse early childhood
developmental screening because of conscientiously held beliefs
(me)

Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Author added Lynch

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Creating a state grant in aid assistance program to pay for part of the cost of
facility construction and maintenance of community partnership project schools,
providing for application and plan, requiring commissioner of education review
and approval; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for the
grants
(rt)

Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing the purchase of prior service credit in the public employees
retirement association (PERA) defined contribution retirement plan for a certain
independent school district #625, St. Paul school board member
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing intermediate school district boards to borrow money in anticipation
of federal and state aids, taxes and member fee payments, specifying a limit
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance

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1E Relating to education; eliminating certain school district reserve fund
requirements; modifying school boards annual notification requirements to the
public of revenue, expenditures, fund balance and other relevant information;
eliminating certain superintendent reporting requirements; eliminating certain
budget approval provisions; eliminating the requirement for school district
primary elections under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner of
education to report to the legislature on major data reporting systems and
recommend a streamlined web based system of reporting school district data;
repealing certain reserve accounts
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to State and Local Government Operations and Oversight

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1E Relating to education; modifying the primary election process of school board
members; requiring the department of education to report to the legislature on
certain data collection procedures
(me)

Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing online learning provider charter schools to conduct school board
meetings by telephone or other electronic means
(me)

Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Author added Clark

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Modifying early education developmental screening aid
(me)

Latest Action: 05/07/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to education; authorizing and providing for full participation in
extracurricular activities by charter school students residing in the district
under certain conditions; specifying certain advance notice requirements of the
students relating to intent to participate and certain information transmission
duties of the charter schools; authorizing school boards to charge the charter
schools for certain extracurricular activities and transportation costs and to
charge certain student fees
(me)

Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF3172

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1E Relating to elections; exempting lobbying activities relating to ballot questions or propositions from campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring preelection reports of certain political contributions to political committees and political funds; adjusting certain preelection reporting requirements for contributions to candidates; advancing the deadline to file affidavit of contributions; providing for delivery of absentee ballots to an agent of certain persons and return of ballots by an agent; permitting appointment of election judges not affiliated with a major political party; eliminating an approval requirement for mail elections; increasing the maximum time to conduct certain special elections; modifying recounts of a special primary or a special election; changing certain school district election provisions; authorizing certain school board primary elections; shortening time to complete postelection [...]

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Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Conference committee report#

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School boards required to seek information from prospective teachers and the
Board of Teaching about disciplinary actions against teachers.

Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - House rule 4.20, interim disposition of bills, returned to Governmental Operations, Reform, Technology and Elections

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School district election provisions modified, mail election approval requirement
eliminated, and school board primary elections authorized.

Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to energy; authorizing school boards to form business entities for the
sole purpose of producing and operating a wind energy conversion system for the
benefit of the district; providing for an exemption from the tax on electricity
produced by the wind energy conversion system
(me)

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: 05/31/2007 - 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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