Bill Introductions for February 6-10, 2023

Bill Introductions for February 6-10, 2023

The following education-related bills were introduced in the Minnesota Legislature during the sixth 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 1271-1582

Senate Files 1203-1526

House Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions

Summary Bill Number Author
 A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing equalization aid for the operating referendum program; decreasing property tax levies.

H.F. 1271

Youakim
A bill for an act relating to early childhood; making changes to the early learning scholarships program.

H.F. 1277

Coulter
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a grant to the Bakken Museum in the city of Minneapolis.

H.F. 1294

Long
 A bill for an act relating to education; striking obsolete language pertaining to the administration of the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board.

H.F. 1313

Pryor
A bill for an act relating to education finance; providing for employee health insurance; increasing the minimum starting salary for nonlicensed school personnel; providing for paid orientation and professional development for paraprofessionals.

H.F. 1348

Tabke
 A bill for an act relating to state government; replacing references to Christopher Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.

H.F. 1354

Keeler
A bill for an act relating to education; providing for display or communication of the child abuse hotline number in schools.

H.F. 1358

Berg
A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing safe schools revenue; providing state aid; expanding revenue uses to include cyber security measures.

H.F. 1360

Clardy
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for grants to museums and education centers.

H.F. 1364

Wolgamott
A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing certain cost-efficient projects; including certain remodeling costs in the long-term facilities maintenance revenue program.

H.F. 1375

Keeler
A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing equalization aid for the debt service equalization program; decreasing property tax levies.

H.F. 1396

Hemmingsen-Jaeger
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a science, technology, engineering, and math activities grant.

H.F. 1407

Frazier
A bill for an act relating to retirement; Teachers Retirement Association; making technical changes; modifying the experience requirements for an executive director.

H.F. 1430

Wolgamott
 A bill for an act relating to education finance; clarifying allowed uses of long-term facilities maintenance revenue and capital levies.

H.F. 1457

Pursell
A bill for an act relating to retirement; Minnesota State Retirement System; Public Employees Retirement Association; Teachers Retirement Association; St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association; lowering the actuarial assumption for investment rate of return to seven percent.

H.F. 1468

Nelson, M.

 

Senate Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions

Summary Bill Number Author
 A bill for an act relating to education; allowing postsecondary enrollment in summer courses.

S.F. 1204

Eichorn
A bill for an act relating to education; creating education savings accounts as a learning option for students.

S.F. 1210

Rarick
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a grant to the Bakken Museum in the city of Minneapolis.

S.F. 1223

Dibble
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing a parent to opt their child out of a face covering requirement.

S.F. 1236

Utke
A bill for an act relating to early childhood programs; requiring support staff persons for early childhood family education programs.

S.F. 1240

Putnam
A bill for an act relating to education finance; clarifying allowed uses of long-term facilities maintenance revenue and capital levies.

S.F. 1247

Dahms
 A bill for an act relating to education; requiring evidence-based literacy instruction; requiring a report.

S.F. 1257

Coleman
A bill for an act relating to education; appropriating money for a grant to the Reach Out and Read Minnesota program.

S.F. 1270

Cwodzinski
 A bill for an act relating to education; requiring schools to use approved literacy curriculum; requiring literacy specialists; requiring a report.

S.F. 1273

Maye Quade
A bill for an act relating to education; requiring high school students to complete the FAFSA or state financial aid application; requiring the commissioners of the Office of Higher Education and the Department of Education to establish a FAFSA working group.

S.F. 1275

Duckworth
A bill for an act relating to early childhood; making changes to the early learning scholarships program.

S.F. 1276

Maye Quade
A bill for an act relating to education; modifying teacher shortage reporting requirements.

S.F. 1285

Gustafson
A bill for an act relating to retirement; St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association; reducing the investment rate of return assumption and providing funding.

S.F. 1286

Pappas
A bill for an act relating to education finance; eliminating an obsolete general education transition aid date.

S.F. 1307

Kunesh
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.

S.F. 1311

Cwodzinski
A bill for an act relating to education finance; providing for employee health insurance; increasing the minimum starting salary for nonlicensed school personnel; providing for paid orientation and professional development for paraprofessionals.

S.F. 1318

Mann
A bill for an act relating to education finance; expanding the Learning with Music program to early childhood educators.

S.F. 1329

Champion
 A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing certain cost-efficient projects; including certain remodeling costs in the long-term facilities maintenance revenue program.

S.F. 1330

Kupec
A bill for an act relating to education; authorizing grants for robotics programs; requiring a report.

S.F. 1359

Carlson
A bill for an act relating to education; permitting patriotic and national organizations informational access to schools.

S.F. 1363

Cwodzinski
A bill for an act relating to retirement; Minnesota State Retirement System; Public Employees Retirement Association; Teachers Retirement Association; St. Paul Teachers’ Retirement Fund Association; restoring augmentation of deferred annuities.

S.F. 1386

McEwen
A bill for an act relating to retirement; Teachers Retirement Association; making technical changes; modifying the experience requirements for an executive director.

S.F. 1389

Rasmusson
A bill for an act relating to retirement; Teachers Retirement Association; removing a restriction on compensation that counts as covered salary for teachers working for a labor organization.

S.F. 1400

Rest
A bill for an act relating to education; integrating service-learning into Minnesota’s education system; establishing an evidence-based service-learning technical assistance and grant program; requiring reports.

S.F. 1401

Westlin
A bill for an act relating to education; modifying hours of instruction requirements and e-learning requirements; allowing districts to offer full-time online instruction.

S.F. 1414

Gustafson
A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a grant for Junior Achievement North for expansion of its student financial literacy activities; requiring reports.

S.F. 1415

Cwodzinski
A bill for an act relating to education; including elementary counseling services for nonpublic pupils in nonpublic pupil aid.

S.F. 1428

Westlin
A bill for an act relating to education; appropriating money for a grant to expand executive function curriculum; requiring a report.

S.F. 1460

Morrison
A bill for an act relating to education; striking obsolete language pertaining to the administration of the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board.

S.F. 1462

Cwodzinski
A bill for an act relating to education; requiring mental health screening for students; creating student mental health supports revenue.

S.F. 1468

Morrison
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a grant for the ActivEd Walkabouts learning program.

S.F. 1469

Morrison
A bill for an act relating to education; removing barriers to teacher licensure.

S.F. 1473

Gustafson
A bill for an act relating to education; creating an ethnic studies requirement; creating an Ethnic Studies Working Group; authorizing rulemaking; requiring a report.

S.F. 1476

Kunesh
A bill for an act relating to education; making changes to tiered licensure.

S.F. 1477

Kunesh
 A bill for an act relating to education; prohibiting the teaching of racist or sexist concepts; creating private rights of action.

S.F. 1495

Lucero

 

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