All Schools-Officers and Employees Legislation - Minnesota
SF0387 - School administrators board rulemaking authority extension
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to State and Local Government Operations and Oversight Bill Text Extending rulemaking authority of the board of school administrators to reflect changes in duties, responsibilities and roles of school administrators (me) Comment on Bill SF1831 - Alternative teacher professional pay plan additional staff development opportunities availability
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring school alternative teacher professional pay system agreements to include a staff development plan to provide licensed teachers with staff development and continuing education opportunities related to the appropriate academic subject area, specifying plan requirements (rt) SF1832 - Teacher training and staff development goals and revenue allocation clarification
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 1E Requiring advisory staff development committee for teacher education and training to add to and modify the goals included in their staff development plan for improving student achievement; modifying staff development revenue allocation to include higher education courses and programs in a teachers area of licensure (je) SF0263 - School district superintendents sharing option incentive
Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Providing a financial incentive for school districts to share superintendents (rt) Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Authorizing and providing for supplementary staff development aid for school districts not making sufficient progress or needing assistance in reaching the levels of adequacy under the federal no child left behind act, requiring use for staff development activities; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for payment of the aid (me) Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to education finance; providing for school districts to levy for retired employee health benefits (rt) SF2816 - School districts state employee health insurance plan participation study
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Judiciary Bill Text 1E Requiring the commissioner of finance in consultation with certain other state agencies to conduct a study related to the inclusion of school district employees in the state employee group health insurance plan (SEGIP) (me) SF1792 - Teachers professional development Minnesota historical society grant
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the department of education for the purpose of providing grants to the Minnesota historical society for teacher professional development to improve implementation of academic standards in state history and social studies (me) SF1922 - School district employees statewide health insurance program
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection Bill Text Creating a statewide health insurance program for school district employees; creating the Minnesota school employee insurance board as a public corporation to create and administer the program, specifying certain membership requirements and certain duties of the board relating to the design and nature of the plan, providing a contingent expiration date; requiring the board to report to the legislature by a certain date on the final design for the health plan platforms and on governance requirements for the board, specifying certain report content requirements; requiring periodic reports by the board to the commissioner of commerce and the legislature summarizing and evaluating the performance of the program; requiring the legislative auditor to conduct a study by a certain date to determine the impact of the cash in lieu provisions on the public employees retirement system (PERA) and the teachers retirement association (TRA) [...] show full description SF3399 - School administrators and teachers course preparation and continuing education requirements for gifted and talented students
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Establishing course preparation and continuing education requirements for school administrators and teachers working with gifted and talented students; specifying certain duties of the board of school administrators relating to expanding candidate licensure requirements to include graduate gifted and talented preparation, requiring opportunities for gifted and talented training for administrators seeking relicensure; requiring review and approval of traditional preparation programs for school administrators focusing on gifted and talented student programs and services; specifying college and university requirements for gifted and talented school administrators; requiring higher education systems approved by the board of teaching to include a certain amount of teacher instruction in teaching gifted and talented students; specifying certain relicensure requirements and certain preservice training for teacher candidates;[...] show full description SF3068 - Alternative teacher compensation revenue inflationary adjustment
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Adding an inflationary adjustment for alternative teacher compensation revenue (me) SF1748 - School districts with declining enrollment early retirement incentives for school district employees
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text 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) SF0507 - School district superintendents sharing option incentive
Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Providing a financial incentive for school districts to share superintendents (rt) SF1817 - Schools timely employment contracts financial incentives
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Providing a financial incentive for public employers to sign teacher collective bargaining agreements with teacher exclusive representative prior to the first student contact day, specifying amount and a formula; providing another financial incentive for public employers through written certification of teacher tentative agreement by exclusive teacher representative to the commissioner of bureau of mediation services prior to the first student contact day (rt) SF0350 - Veterans day personal day of leave for school staff employees
Latest Action: 04/11/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Education Bill Text 1E Requiring school districts and charter schools to grant a personal day of leave to staff veterans on veterans day and requiring school instruction on the significance of veterans day; encouraging private employers to honor veteran employees with a day off with pay (ra) SF0266 - PERA prior service credit purchase for independent school district #625, St. Paul school board member
Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text 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) SF1829 - Schools gifted and talented students and programs administrator, teacher, program coordinator and specialist licensure requirements
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the board of school administrators to review and approve preparation programs for school administrators focusing on gifted and talented students; requiring the board in consultation with the commissioner of education to consider alternative preparation programs and other alternative competency based preparation programs leading to licensure of gifted and talented program administrators, specifying college and university requirements for gifted and talented school administrators; requiring higher education systems approved by the board of teaching to include a certain amount of teacher instruction in teaching gifted and talented students; requiring the board to consider alternative certification programs for gifted and talented program coordinators and specialists; authorizing the board to advise interested colleges and universities (rt) Latest Action: 02/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to education finance; repealing a school district pension subtraction (me) Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text 2E Providing for the release of school employee insurance board claims data; creating a Minnesota school employee insurance pool for purpose of providing school employee insurance plans; requiring audit by the legislative auditor and commissioner of commerce plan approval; creating the Minnesota school employee insurance board as a nonprofit public corporation to govern the pool, specifying certain membership requirements and certain duties of the board relating to the design and nature of the plans; requiring and providing for board membership in and assessments to the Minnesota comprehensive health association (MCHA); requiring the board to report to the legislature and to commissioner of commerce by a certain date on pool final design, governance and to periodically report performance; requiring a pool actuarial study; clarifying that the board is a government entity and is subject to data practices laws; providing statutory show full description Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - H adopted SCC report and repassed bill Bill Text 3E Relating to data practices; requiring the protection of certain data included in a state auditor report from unlawful disclosure; making technical changes to government data access and juvenile traffic investigation reports provisions; increasing government liability amounts; classifying certain metropolitan airport parking space customer data as nonpublic data; allowing educational data sharing between the department of education and the office of higher education as authorized by the code of federal regulations for the purpose of analyzing and improving school district instruction; prohibiting the use of social security numbers on the face of mailings by government entities; classifying data on applicants to boards, task forces, commissions, committees, advisory groups and other public bodies as private; providing for data on use and storage of explosives; providing for the effect of background checks on individuals [...] show full description Latest Action: 05/10/2007 - Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means Bill Text 5E Providing for the release of school employee insurance board claims data; creating a statewide health insurance pool for school district employees; creating the Minnesota school employee insurance board as a nonprofit public corporation to create and administer the pool, specifying certain membership requirements and certain duties of the board relating to the design and nature of the plan, requiring the commissioner of commerce to provide administrative support to the board, providing a contingent expiration date; requiring and providing for board membership in and assessments to the Minnesota comprehensive health association (MCHA); requiring the board to report to the legislature and to commissioner of commerce by a certain date on the final design for the pool and on governance requirements for the board, specifying certain report content requirements; requiring periodic reports by the board to commissioner of [...] show full description SF2597 - School background check requirement provisions modification
Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Conference committee report# Bill Text 3E Relating to education; modifying school background check provisions; requiring school hiring authorities offering employment to a teacher to contact the board of teaching for determination of disciplinary action taken against the teacher for inappropriate sexual conduct or attempted inappropriate sexual conduct between the teacher and a student; providing for the effect of board of teaching action (ra) SF3763 - School district superintendents report requirements modifications
Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to education finance; modifying certain duties of school superintendents relating to reporting requirements for anticipated expenditures and passage rates; modifying the annual report submittal date (je) SF0051 - Election campaign contributions acceptance as conflict of interest
Latest Action: 01/11/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to ethics in government; creating a conflict of interest based on the acceptance of certain large election campaign contributions by certain elected officials on issues relating to the contributor, requiring certain disclosures and actions under the conflict; imposing penalties for violation (rt) Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Repealing the teacher contract deadline and penalty provision (me) HF1875 - School district employees statewide health insurance pool
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Returned from Senate with amendment Bill Text Relating to insurance; providing for the release of school employee insurance board claims data; creating a Minnesota school employee insurance pool as a public corporation to create and administer the Minnesota school employee insurance plan; providing for a board of directors; providing for the design and nature of the plan; requiring a written report to the legislature by a certain date on a final design for the pool; providing for periodic evaluation; providing for the applicability of data practices provisions; requiring the executive director of the legislative coordination commission (LCC) or designee to convene the first meeting of the board of directors; appropriating money to the commissioner of finance for pool start up costs and requiring repayment (Ch. 346, 2008 - VETO) HF2245 - Omnibus E-12 education, family and adult education appropriations
Latest Action: 05/31/2007 - Governor's action Veto Line item vetoes - Page 20 lines 20.11-20.14; Bill Text Relating to education ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain school district levy recognition, learning year program calendar options, area learning center (ALC) service requirements, kindergarten pupil weight, basic revenue, gifted and talented revenue, equity revenue, basic alternative teacher compensation aid, general education aid; authorizing certain general education revenue for early education programs; adding proceeds from wind energy payments to the definition of county apportionment revenue; reducing general education aid to cooperative member school districts failing to meet federal special education maintenance of effort; authorizing safe schools levy for intermediate school district member districts; establishing certain abatement and aid adjustments; requiring certain county auditor reports to the commissioner of education; limiting new alternative compensation school districts [...] show full description Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Conference committee report, delete everything Bill Text Relating to insurance; creating a statewide health insurance pool for school district employees; requiring the legislative auditor to audit the financial statements of the Minnesota school employee insurance board; providing for the disclosure of certain data to the Minnesota school employee insurance board; defining certain terms; creating the Minnesota school employee insurance board as a public corporation to create and administer the pool, specifying certain membership requirements and certain duties of the board relating to the design and nature of the plan, providing a contingent expiration date; requiring and providing for board membership in and assessments to the Minnesota comprehensive health association (MCHA); requiring the board to report to the legislature and commissioner of commerce by a certain date on the final design for the pool and on governance requirements for the board, specifying certain report content show full description |
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