Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the pollution control agency (PCA) in cooperation with state and local
government agencies to study the effect of global climate change for determining
state impact and response strategies; requiring a report to the legislature by a
certain date
(je)

Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance

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Establishing the position of statewide hearing loss early education intervention
coordinator in the department of education, prescribing duties, requiring
collaboration with various state offices and agencies; appropriating money to
the commissioner of education
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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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
(je)

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

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Allowing educational data sharing between the department of education and the
office of higher education as authorized by the code of federal regulations
(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: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to the housing finance agency (HFA); requiring providers or
organizations receiving homeless program state funding to impose certain
consistent homeless programs standards on clients and requiring consistency in
program guidelines; requiring the interagency task force on homelessness in
consultation with the Minnesota coalition for the homeless, homeless advocates,
certain homeless or formerly homeless people, representatives of public or
private providers of emergency shelter, transitional, supportive and permanent
affordable housing, representatives of homeless youth serving agencies and youth
outreach programs and interested members of the public to establish certain
standards; requiring agency and departments to implement the standards by a
certain date
(je)

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

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Creating a joint legislative committee to assess an office of higher education
merger into the department of education, specifying committee membership
requirements
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Author added Rummel

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Relating to state lands; limiting certain acquisitions of state owned land,
requiring a no net gain of state land; requiring the payment of real estate
taxes on purchased state land or in lieu of taxes agreements under certain
conditions
(me)


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

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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)

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

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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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Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to state government; reducing certain state government appropriations to the legislature, legislative coordinating commission (LCC), governor, state auditor, attorney general, secretary of state, office of enterprise technology, commissioner of administration for state facilities services, state and community services and administrative management services, the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, commissioner of employee relations (DOER), commissioner of revenue for the tax system management program and amateur sports commission; requiring the commissioner of finance to reduce the budget reserve account by a certain amount; requiring the legislature to cancel certain balances carried forward; appropriating money from the budget reserve to the commissioner of finance for the budget reserve escrow account as a guarantee by the state for private money [...]

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Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Gen Ord: Stricken and re-referred to Finance

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1E Requiring state agencies with certain information and telecommunications
technology projects to register with the office of enterprise technology and
requiring the office to monitor progress on the projects; requiring the office
of enterprise technology to report to the legislature regarding the approval
process for state agency technology requests and assistance provided to state
agencies in developing agency and intergovernmental information and technology
systems plans; specifying certain report requirements
(ra)

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

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Revisor's bill ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS Making miscellaneous technical corrections and removing obsolete and redundant references to statutes and other laws relating to legislative audits, government data practices, criminal justice data, state fair liquor sales, a road name, sewage treatment replacement systems, the legislative commission on waste management, battery management pilot projects, mixed municipal solid waste incinerators, the workforce development council, the national board of medical examiners, limited market value, office of enterprise technology and enterprise technology revolving fund, constables, fiduciaries, the crime victim and witness advisory council, unlicensed mental health practitioners and the office of unlicensed mental health practice, city of Worthington general election date, cigarette and tobacco products tax and liquor excise tax effective dates; providing [...]

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Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds for capital costs associated with publicly owned
neighborhood land trusts
(je)

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

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Relating to state government; prohibiting state contacts with companies
convicted of or having a civil judgment rendered against the company; requiring
applicants to do business with the state to certify no civil or criminal
judgments have been made within a certain period of time; requiring
commissioners and governmental agencies to terminate contracts with companies
with criminal or civil judgments within a certain period of time
(me)

Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance

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Requiring a school media center, public library, state government agency library
and public or private college or university library to be given access to the
electronic library for Minnesota databases regardless of memberships in a
regional library system
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/19/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance

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1E Relating to state employees; modifying equitable compensation limits;
modifying the caps on state commissioner salaries
(me)

Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Author added Vandeveer

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Allowing immediate eligibiltiy for students enrolling in nonresident districts
to participate in academic courses and athletic, extracurricular and
cocurricular activities on the same basis as resident students; repealing high
school league rule making authority governing student athletic participation
(rt)

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

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Establishing a loan forgiveness program for speech language pathologists to
promote licensed speech language pathologist recruitment and retention,
specifying eligibility and loan forgiveness amounts; appropriating money to the
office of higher education
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing incentives for state employee energy savings suggestions; specifying
certain duties of the commissioner of administration relating to establishing
procedures for documenting suggestion submissions; requiring a report to the
legislature by a certain date; sunset provision
(je)

Latest Action: 04/01/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the public facilities authority and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds to match federal grants for the clean water revolving
fund and the drinking water revolving fund, for grants and loans to eligible
municipalities under the wastewater infrastructure funding program, for total
maximum daily load (TMDL) grants, for phosphorus reduction grants and for small
community wastewater grants
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Committee report: To pass as amended

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1E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA), a new Twin Cities campus science teaching and student services building, a new St. Paul campus Bell museum of natural history, an addition to Duluth campus Voss-Kovach hall, Morris campus community services building renovation, a new Crookston campus maintenance facility at the Northwest research and outreach center, classroom disability access, laboratory renovation, specifying a projects costs coverage allotment limit for except HEAPRA and dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement [...]

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Latest Action: 04/23/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Prohibiting the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) and insurance carriers
under contract with the state employees group insurance plan (SEGIP) from
considering costs of medical services not under provider control for
classification of primary medical care providers for purposes of establishing
copayment amounts; requiring data used by the commissioner and carriers to be
public and available to SEGIP providers
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Author added Wergin

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Relating to state government; modifying the requirements of state agencies
relating to rule adoption petitions; specifying certain agency requirements upon
failure to respond to a petition for adoption of a rule within a certain period
of time
(me)

Latest Action: 03/24/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the public facilities authority and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds for a grant to the city of Garrison to design,
construct, furnish and equip a wastewater treatment facility
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) to establish procedures
for state employees to propose cost savings initiatives, providing for
implementation of the program; requiring savings be transferred to a cost
savings proposal recognition account; creating a transportation endowment fund;
requiring the state board of investment to invest the fund; requiring the
transfer of a certain percentage from the endowment fund to the commissioner of
finance for fund transfer; requiring the commissioner of finance to apportion
and distribute available money for highway purposes
(me)

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

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Relating to insurance; requiring the commissioner of public safety and the
office of enterprise technology to develop in consultation with the advisory
committee an electronic recording of vehicle insurance and present to the
legislature by a certain date a written proposal to create, implement and
administer an electronic database system to provide monitoring of the insurance
status of each motor vehicle required by law to be insured; specifying goals and
features of the database system; creating the advisory committee on electronic
recoding of vehicle insurance
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF3099

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2E Requiring the division of emergency management to maintain and administer an
emergency management training curriculum and requiring the division to make
courses available to state employees with essential job duties involving
emergency management, requiring state agencies with assigned emergency response
roles to staff an employee with an entire completed emergency management
training curriculum, providing for noncompliance and staff absence, requiring
the commissioner of public safety to annually report to the legislature
(me)

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

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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)

Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to state lands; requiring the sale of state land by the commissioner of
administration as directed by the land sale board before a certain date;
prohibiting sales to other state agencies; specifying proceeds depositing
requirements; appropriating money to the commissioner of administration for
actual expenses of land sales; requiring commissioner of finance to determine
savings to state agencies, requiring the commissioner to reduce appropriations
accordingly and requiring a trunk highway fund transfer, requiring base budget
reductions
(rt)

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

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Classifying bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) background check data on
individuals as private, permitting release upon consent of subject
(rt)

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

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Requiring the commissioner of public safety to include a summary report of shots
fired in the annual legislative crime report submitted by the bureau of criminal
apprehension (BCA)
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring and providing for the commissioner of administration to coordinate
state executive agency grants management, requiring financial oversight,
training, agency coordination, a standardized grant contract, a statewide
electronic grants managment system and financial reconciliation of grant
expenditures; appropriating money to the commissioner of administration
(rt)

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

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Requiring and providing for the commissioner of finance to coordinate state
executive agency grants management, requiring financial oversight, training,
agency coordination, a standardized grant contract, a statewide electronic
grants managment system and financial reconciliation of grant expenditures;
appropriating money to the commissioner of finance
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to public safety; establishing certain penalties for employers hiring
illegal immigrants in violation of federal immigration law, defining certain
terms, providing for an exception; establishing sex trafficking as a separate
crime from the promotion of prostitution, modifying certain definitions;
increasing penalties for aggravated forgery and expanding the documents included
in the crime of aggravated forgery; specifying instructions to the revisor of
statutes
(me)

Latest Action: 01/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Prohibiting state agencies from imposing new fees or increasing existing fees
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of administration for the purposes of
promoting document imaging work in government agencies to be done by persons
with developmental disabilities
(je)

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

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Prohibiting former legislators, constitutional officers, commissioners, agency
heads and certain legislative employees from lobbying for legislative or
administrative action for a certain period of time after leaving office
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Commerce and Consumer Protection

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1E Relating to health ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS "Minnesota Health Act"; establishing the Minnesota health plan to provide residents all medically necessary health care services; specifying health plan requirements; defining certain terms; providing for ethics and conflict of interest; requiring certain data sharing ARTICLE 2 - ELIGIBILITY Providing for eligibility to all state residents; requiring the Minnesota health board to establish a procedure to enroll residents and provide enrollees with appropriate identification, allowing health care coverage for residents temporarily residing out of state, visitors, nonresident persons working in the state and retiree benefits; providing for presumptive eligibility ARTICLE 3 - BENEFITS Authorizing eligible persons to receive services under the Minnesota health plan from any licensed participating providers; prohibiting [...]

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

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Requiring the rural finance authority (RFA) to establish and implement a dairy
animal revolving loan program to help dairy producers purchase additional dairy
animals, specifying eligibility; authorizing the authority to make direct loans
or participate in loans with eligible lenders, specifying terms and conditions;
appropriating money to the commissioner of agriculture for deposit in the RFA
revolving loan account
(me)

Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for
collecting and delivering ecological information on native habitats and
associated species to state agencies, individual citizens and local units of
government and to assist with local community and state efforts to manage and
restore natural habitat
(me)

Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to energy; promoting the use of hydrogen as energy resource using an
innovative commercial demonstration of integrated biorefinery system for
production of liquid transportation biofuels, biobased chemicals and substitutes
for petroleum based feedstock and products causing a reduction of emissions of
greenhouse gases; specifying certain project goals for fostering transition away
from fossil fuels; specifying certain project eligibility requirements for
selection purposes by the commissioner of commerce; requiring the rural finance
authority (RFA) to partner with lenders to provide a certain percentage local
guarantee for renewable energy project loans using biomass or wind, or both, as
feedstock to produce biofuels, heating fuels and chemicals, limit; appropriating
money for capitalization to eligible biofuel producers
(je)

Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the family homeless
prevention and assistance program
(rt)

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

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Requiring school media centers, public libraries, state government agency
libraries and public or private college or university libraries to have access
to selected databases of the electronic library for Minnesota
(me)

Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the public facilities authority and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds for a grant to the city of Medford to design, construct,
furnish and equip a new wastewater treatment facility
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring state employees to be nonpartisan resources to the executive and
legislative branches of government; providing additional whistleblower
protection to state executive branch employees trying to improve services
provided by the executive branch to the legislature or to executive branch
elected officials
(rt)

Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Chief auth stricken, shown as co-auth Rest

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1E Abolishing the department of employee relations and transferring duties to
the commissioner of finance and certain other duties to the commissioners of
administration and health, authorizing the governor to transfer duties;
providing for worker protection from job loss as a result of the reorganization;
specifying certain reference replacement instructions to revisor of statutes
(ra)

Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the public facilities authority for a grant to the Upper
Sioux community to improve the current water system in order to ensure the
continuity of service to the entire population of the community and to meet the
planned community expansion demands
(me)

Latest Action: 05/20/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) and authorizing the
issuance of state bonds to finance public housing rehabilitation costs for the
preservation of public housing
(rt)

Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF2904

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2E Providing a framework for state agencies to assist in community natural
disaster recovery for areas in a presidential major disaster declaration;
requiring appropriations by law, specifying federal emergency management agency
(FEMA) ineligibility for state assistance for disaster costs and nonduplication
of FEMA public assistance, requiring agency legislative reporting of local
government assistance, permitting unused general fund money transfers,
specifying departments of agriculture, education, employment and economic
development (DEED), health, human services, natural resources (DNR), pollution
control agency (PCA), public safety and transportation (DOT) and board of water
and soil resources (BOWSR), economic development and housing challenge program,
Minnesota historical society and public facilities authority appropriations
uses, authorizing certain waivers
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Requiring the public facilities authority to make funds available for wastewater
infrastructures based on pollution control agency (PCA) priority list ranking
and requiring funds reservation upon applicant federal commitment receipt or PCA
plan submission; increasing public facilities authority grant funding;
establishing and providing for a credit enhanced bond program to provide
governmental unit loans through governmental units general obligation bonds
purchased for purpose of project financing; requiring the authority to obtain
funds to make loans through revenue bonds issuance payable from loan repayments
pledged to the bonds; establishing a fund and accounts; permitting revenue bond
issuance by the authority; specifying a bonding limit
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF3055

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1E Providing for deficiency funding for the Minnesota historical society for the
administration of the Minnesota sesquicentennial commission, the board of
chiropractic examiners, the board of dentistry and the board of veterinary
medicine
(je)

Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance

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1E Relating to state finance; improving access to state budget information by
members of the legislature; clarifying the format of responses by agencies at
the request of the legislative commission on planning and fiscal policy;
modifying certain duties of the commission; amending legislative and budget
proposal data classification requirements; modifying budget format details;
specifying certain documentation requirements of agency budget information by
the commissioner of finance; requiring a forecast of cash flow for the general
fund; providing a deadline for modifying the budget after the February forecast;
specifying a format for detailed budget estimates of expenditures; imposing a
deadline for notice of deficiency requests; providing for an increase in the
budget reserve; repealing certain obsolete provisions relating to a budget
reserve increase and transfers to the tax relief account
(me)

Latest Action: 04/07/2008 - HF substituted by motion [HF1812]

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1E Relating to the financing of state government; making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations for various state agencies ARTICLE 1- GENERAL FUND SUMMARY Summarizing certain general fund direct appropriations, appropriation reductions and transfers ARTICLE 2 - GENERAL EDUCATION Modifying certain duties of school superintendents relating to reporting requirements for anticipated expenditures and passage rates, modifying the annual report submittal date; modifying and clarifying certain school district reciprocity agreement provisions; modifying tuition payment requirements; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into an agreement with a designated authority from an adjoining state to establish enrollment options programs with an adjoining state, specifying certain agreement content requirements; providing for pupil accounting, requiring the commissioner [...]

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

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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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