Bill Introductions for February 27-March 3, 2023
The following education-related bills were introduced in the Minnesota Legislature during the ninth week of the 2023 session. Each Friday, we will publish relevant bills that have been introduced during the week.
MSBA hopes that school board members will monitor these bill introduction listings, as they provide updated information about the bills under consideration that may have implications for school boards and school districts across the state. It is critical for board members to understand how introduced bills may impact their own unique school districts.
House Files 2174 – 2554
Senate Files 2048 – 2501
House Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions
| Summary | Bill Number | Author |
| A bill for an act relating to state government; elections; requiring voting instructions and sample ballots to be printed in languages other than English for certain designated precincts; requiring multilingual election judges in certain precincts; requiring voting instructions in certain languages other than English for use in in-person absentee voting. |
H.F. 2200 |
Lee, K. |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a civics course as a graduation requirement. |
H.F. 2206 |
Urdahl |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; establishing an academic acceleration pilot program; requiring a report. |
H.F. 2208 |
Norris |
| A bill for an act relating to education; establishing a tutoring grant program. |
H.F. 2209 |
Berg |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a grant for the Black Men Teach Twin Cities program; requiring a report. |
H.F. 2214 |
Frazier |
| A bill for an act relating to retirement; Teachers Retirement Association and St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association; providing for unreduced retirement at age 62 or with 35 years of service; restoring deferred annuities augmentation for teachers; providing additional service credit for school employees; modifying postretirement adjustments to tie increases to inflation; increasing employer contributions; increasing the pension adjustment revenue for school districts. |
H.F. 2222 |
Wolgamott |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited daily. |
H.F. 2241 |
Heintzeman |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring early education teachers to be licensed; modifying the definition of teacher under the Public Employment Labor Relations Act. |
H.F. 2281 |
Hill |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying provisions for prekindergarten through grade 12 including general education accountability and transparency, education excellence, American Indian education, charter schools, discipline, teachers, special education, and early learning; requiring reports. |
H.F. 2291 |
Pinto |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood; removing obsolete language from voluntary prekindergarten statutes. |
H.F. 2292 |
Pinto |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood; removing obsolete language from early childhood family education statutes. |
H.F. 2293 |
Pinto |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring school districts and charter schools to provide climate justice instruction; requiring a report. |
H.F. 2297 |
Kraft |
| A bill for an act relating to state government; modifying the children’s cabinet; establishing the Department of Children, Youth, and Families; transferring responsibilities from the Department of Education, Department of Human Services, and Department of Public Safety to the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. |
H.F. 2320 |
Pinto |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for historic school building preservation grants. |
H.F. 2331 |
Igo |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing additional long-term facilities maintenance revenue and revenue uses for school districts with facilities on the National Register of Historic Places. |
H.F. 2380 |
Igo |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring schools to maintain a supply of opiate antagonists; modifying provisions for opiate antagonist administration in schools. |
H.F. 2398 |
Acomb |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood programs; appropriating money to the Greater Twin Cities United Way for a grant program to provide trauma-sensitive care in preschool settings. |
H.F. 2451 |
Bahner |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; modifying the building lease levy for geographically isolated school districts. |
H.F. 2456 |
Lislegard |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; providing funding for prekindergarten through grade 12 education; modifying provisions for general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, facilities, nutrition, libraries, early childhood, community education, and state agencies. |
H.F. 2497 |
Youakim |
| A bill for an act relating to transportation; repealing requirement to retire type III vehicles after 12 years. |
H.F. 2504 |
Murphy |
| A bill for an act relating to childhood education; establishing a grant to YWCA Minneapolis for early childhood and youth programming. |
H.F. 2514 |
Hassan |
| A bill for an act relating to youth programs; establishing a grant to YWCA Minneapolis for girls and youth programming. |
H.F. 2515 |
Clardy |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; establishing an extracurricular activities grant program. |
H.F. 2529 |
Norris |
| A bill for an act relating to education; superintendents; making various nonsubstantive style and form changes. |
H.F. 2533 |
Pryor |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring districts to grant students credit for satisfying academic standards before enrolling in high school. |
H.F. 2534 |
Keeler |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing grants to aspiring educators; establishing an endowment. |
H.F. 2535 |
Clardy |
| A bill for an act relating to driver education; expanding access to driver education programs for low-income students. |
H.F. 2536 |
Hassan |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying postsecondary enrollment options provisions. |
H.F. 2537 |
Hassan |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring student and staff safety measures to be included in each school district’s long-term facilities maintenance school facility plan; increasing safe schools funding; creating school security systems grants. |
H.F. 2538 |
Engen |
Senate Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions
| Summary | Bill Number | Author |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a grant to the Minnesota Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs. |
S.F. 2050 |
Boldon |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for career and technical education consortium grants. |
S.F. 2058 |
Weber |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood programs; appropriating money for the ParentChild+ program. |
S.F. 2097 |
Cwodzinski |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for the Sanneh Foundation. |
S.F. 2147 |
Oumou Verbeten |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying after-school community learning programs; requiring a report. |
S.F. 2149 |
Oumou Verbeten |
| A bill for an act relating to education; establishing a tutoring grant program. |
S.F. 2167 |
Duckworth |
| A bill for an act relating to education; prohibiting certain material in school libraries. |
S.F. 2174 |
Dornink |
| A bill for an act relating to education; prohibiting admission fees at public school events. |
S.F. 2179 |
Howe |
| A bill for an act relating to education; establishing a fund to promote healthy environments for learning and teaching. |
S.F. 2203 |
Hoffman |
| A bill for an act relating to campaign finance; providing certain record-keeping and reporting requirements related to political advertisements; requiring the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board to provide public access to certain reports, including copies of campaign advertisements; amending requirements related to the display of a disclaimer on campaign material. |
S.F. 2226 |
Mitchell |
| A bill for an act relating to education; appropriating money for an online tutoring program: requiring a report. |
S.F. 2230 |
Fateh |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a grant for the Black Men Teach Twin Cities program. |
S.F. 2241 |
Putnam |
| A bill for an act relating to education; appropriating money to ACHLA for English language learner programming. |
S.F. 2255 |
Boldon |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing for school health services. |
S.F. 2256 |
Boldon |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring early education teachers to be licensed; modifying the definition of teacher under the Public Employment Labor Relations Act. |
S.F. 2289 |
Maye Quade |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for historic school building preservation grants. |
S.F. 2292 |
Farnsworth |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a payment to Tribal contract or grant schools equivalent to the annual payment to school districts and charter schools from the permanent school fund endowment. |
S.F. 2298 |
Maye Quade |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for the Minnesota GreenStep Schools program. |
S.F. 2350 |
Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a school district to grant secondary credit for postsecondary courses outside the school year. |
S.F. 2358 |
Gustafson |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying postsecondary enrollment options provisions. |
S.F. 2359 |
Coleman |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing an aeronautics and commercial over-the-road technical pilot program for Independent School District No. 482, Little Falls. |
S.F. 2363 |
Jasinski |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for teacher licensure application fees and background checks. |
S.F. 2368 |
Cwodzinski |
| A bill for an act relating to children; appropriating money for a grant to the Power of People Youth Leadership Institute. |
S.F. 2370 |
Champion |
| A bill for an act relating to retirement; Public Employees Retirement Association; increasing postretirement adjustments for members receiving a basic member annuity from the general public employees retirement fund and providing funding. |
S.F. 2371 |
Frentz |
| A bill for an act relating to health; creating a certain exception to tobacco in public schools. |
S.F. 2372 |
Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood; removing obsolete language from voluntary prekindergarten statutes. |
S.F. 2373 |
Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; postsecondary institution enrollment aid for meals; postsecondary institution enrollment aid for transportation costs for qualifying students. |
S.F. 2374 |
Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood; removing obsolete language from early childhood family education statutes; |
S.F. 2377 |
Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing for display or communication of the child abuse hotline number in schools. |
S.F. 2378 |
Seeberger |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; establishing an extracurricular activities grant program. |
S.F. 2383 |
Cwodzinski |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood programs; appropriating money to the Greater Twin Cities United Way for a grant program to provide trauma-sensitive care in preschool settings. |
S.F. 2385 |
Boldon |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; modifying the building lease levy for geographically isolated school districts. |
S.F. 2391 |
Farnsworth |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing additional long-term facilities maintenance revenue and revenue uses for school districts with facilities on the National Register of Historic Places. |
S.F. 2392 |
Farnsworth |
| A bill for an act relating to state government; modifying the children’s cabinet; establishing the Department of Children, Youth, and Families; transferring responsibilities from the Department of Education, Department of Human Services, and Department of Public Safety to the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. |
S.F. 2398 |
Wicklund |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing for distance learning days. |
S.F. 2409 |
Lang |
| A bill for an act relating to labor; restricting public union release time. |
S.F. 2418 |
Koran |
| A bill for an act relating to driver education; expanding access to driver education programs for low-income students. |
S.F. 2427 |
Fateh |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood; making changes to the early learning scholarships program. |
S.F. 2432 |
Maye Quade |
| A bill for an act relating to education; removing exemptions from obscenity laws for public schools and postsecondary institutions. |
S.F. 2434 |
Gruenhagen |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying certain school liability provisions; creating a civil cause of action. |
S.F. 2435 |
Gruenhagen |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring Holocaust and genocide education in social studies curriculum for middle and high school students; creating a Holocaust and Genocide Education Task Force; requiring a report. |
S.F 2442 |
Cwodzinski |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring schools to maintain a supply of opiate antagonists; modifying provisions for opiate antagonist administration in schools. |
S.F. 2444 |
Morrison |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring student and staff safety measures to be included in each school district’s long-term facilities maintenance school facility plan; increasing safe schools funding; creating school security systems grants. |
S.F. 2480 |
Duckworth |
| A bill for an act relating to education; allowing high school students to earn elective credits through employment with certain health care providers. |
S.F. 2500 |
Hoffman |