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Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to State and Local Government Operations and Oversight Bill Text Extending rulemaking authority of the board of school administrators to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 SF3235 - Data classified and data sharing authorized, technical changes made, and business screening service practices regulated.
Latest Action: 05/17/2008 - Governor's action Approval 05/15/08 Bill Text Data classified and data sharing authorized, technical changes made, and business screening service practices regulated. SF0276 - Statewide health insurance pool established for school district employees, and money appropriated.
Latest Action: 05/10/2007 - Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means Bill Text Statewide health insurance pool established for school district employees, and money appropriated. SF2597 - School boards required to seek information from prospective teachers and the Board of Teaching about disciplinary actions against teachers.
Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Conference committee report# Bill Text School boards required to seek information from prospective teachers and the Board of Teaching about disciplinary actions against teachers. 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 - Statewide health insurance purchasing pool created for school district employees, and money appropriated.
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Returned from Senate with amendment Bill Text HF 1875 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Statewide health insurance purchasing pool created for school district employees, and money appropriated. Section 1: Service cooperative and school employee insurance board claims data language modified. Section 2: School employee insurance plan language provided. Section 3: Initial meeting; Minnesota school employee insurance pool language provided. Section 4: Appropriation language provided. Section 5: Effective date is July 1, 2008. SNA 5/17/08 Latest Action: 05/31/2007 - Governor's action Veto Line item vetoes - Page 20 lines 20.11-20.14; Bill Text 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. [...] show full description HF0464 - School employee statewide health insurance plan established, and money appropriated.
Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Conference committee report, delete everything Bill Text HF 464 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT School employee statewide health insurance plan established, and money appropriated. Section 1: Financial audits language modified. Section 2: Service cooperative and school employee insurance board claims data language modified. Section 3: School employee insurance plan language provided. Section 4: Contributing member language modified. Section 5: Creation; tax exemption language modified. Section 6: Allocation of losses language modified. Section 7: Health maintenance organizations, nonprofit health service plan corporations, community integrated service networks, and the Minnesota School Employee Insurance Board language modified. Section 8: Initial meeting language provided. Section 9: Appropriation language provided. Section 10: Effective date JAJ 5/22/7 |
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