Bill introductions for January 23-27, 2023
The following education-related bills were introduced in the Minnesota Legislature during the fourth 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 637-968
Senate Files 491-903
House Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions
| Summary | Bill Number | Author |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a personal finance class for high school graduation. | H.F. 651 | Hassan |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying teacher shortage reporting requirements. | H.F. 652 | Hassan |
| A bill for an act relating to public safety; allowing permitted and trained school staff to carry firearms. | H.F. 663 | Mekeland |
| A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for the safe routes to school grant program. | H.F. 669 | Lee |
| A bill for an act relating to transportation; governing policy provisions on school-related active transportation. | H.F. 678 | Elkins |
| A bill for an act proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution by adding a section to article I; establishing rights of a parent in the education of their child. | H.F. 682 | Kresha |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for the community education revenue program. | H.F. 683 | Edelson |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for the Minnesota math corps. | H.F. 694 | Acomb |
| A bill for an act relating to education; allowing a parent to opt their child out of a face covering requirement. | H.F. 724 | Davis |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring literacy data reporting. | H.F. 741 | Feist |
| A bill for an act relating to education; allowing American Indian regalia or objects of cultural significance at graduation ceremonies. | H.F. 748 | Keeler |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing for computer science education advancement. | H.F. 759 | Lee, K. |
| A bill for an act relating to education; creating education savings accounts as a learning option for students. | H.F. 768 | Davis |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; aligning the average daily membership minimum hours for a disabled kindergarten pupil to those of other kindergarten pupils. | H.F. 781 | Koznick |
| A bill for an act relating to elections; permitting a candidate to request the candidate’s residential address be classified as private data when the candidate has reasonable fear as to the safety of the candidate or the candidate’s family. | H.F. 789 | Becker-Finn |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; expanding extended time revenue to all students placed at residential treatment facilities providing mental health or juvenile justice services. | H.F. 795 | Youakim |
| A bill for an act relating to elections; allowing persons to be absent from work to vote in person before election day. | H.F. 799 | Agbaje |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a Girls in Action programming grant. | H.F. 801 | Agbaje |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; providing funding for the Building Assets, Reducing Risks Center. | H.F. 806 | Youakim |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying provisions for teacher preparation time. | H.F. 827 | Keeler |
| A bill for an act relating to Minnesota State High School League; modifying the governing board membership. | H.F. 834 | Huot |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying licensure requirements for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and for oral/aural deaf education. | H.F. 842 | Daniels |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing an election to revoke or reduce a school district’s local optional revenue. | H.F. 843 | Daniels |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; requiring local optional revenue to be renewed by voters every ten years. | H.F. 844 | Daniels |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; requiring information about local optional revenue on the referendum ballot. | H.F. 845 | Daniels |
| 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. | H.F. 859 | Frazier |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood programs; requiring support staff persons for early childhood family education programs. | H.F. 862 | Wolgamott |
| A bill for an act relating to early childhood; modifying how the Head Start appropriation may be used and distributed. | H.F. 874 | Kotyza-Witthuhn |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; updating the transportation sparsity revenue percent. | H.F. 877 | Hill |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing local optional revenue; linking future increases in local optional revenue to the growth in the general education basic formula allowance; appropriating money. | H.F. 879 | Youakim |
| A bill for an act relating to education; authorizing certain agreements for nonpublic pupil transportation services. | H.F. 923 | Bennett |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing ongoing grants to the Minnesota Council on Economic Education. | H.F. 932 | Klardy |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a lease levy for a transportation hub for Independent School District No. 112, Eastern Carver County. | H.F. 933 | Rehm |
Senate Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions
| Summary | Bill Number | Author |
| A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for facility improvements in Independent School District No. 318, Grand Rapids. | S.F. 499 | Eichorn |
| A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; providing refundable exemptions for construction materials for certain school buildings. | S.F. 500 | Hauschild |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring paid orientation for paraprofessionals; appropriating money for paraprofessional training. | S.F. 502 | Westlin |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; creating a minimum revenue guarantee for low revenue school districts. | S.F. 504 | Lucero |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; creating a new source of state aid for school districts with low general education revenue and low property wealth per pupil. | S.F. 505 | Lucero |
| A bill for an act relating to elections; allowing persons to be absent from work to vote in person before election day. | S.F. 516 | Champion |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring instruction to advance critical thinking skills. | S.F. 517 | Gruenhagen |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for supplemental aid for school facility construction. | S.F. 525 | Hauschild |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring parental notification of adverse incidents. | S.F. 540 | Limmer |
| A bill for an act relating to health; appropriating funds for children’s school-linked mental health grants. | S.F. 578 | Maye Quade |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying lead testing and remediation requirements in schools; requiring a report. | S.F 579 | Maye Quade |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing for short-call substitute teacher licensing provisions for rural Minnesota. | S.F. 581 | Westrom |
| A bill for an act relating to education; prohibiting the use of American Indian mascots and logos. | S.F. 584 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying short-call substitute teacher requirements. | S.F. 585 | Coleman |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a school board to renew an expiring referendum. | S.F. 613 | Cwodzinski |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; making permanent the expansion of the voluntary prekindergarten and school readiness plus program. | S.F. 615 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a grant to the Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs for certain student activities. | S.F. 616 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to state lands; modifying duties and powers of the school trust lands director. | S.F. 617 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a civics course as a graduation requirement. | S.F. 618 | Cwodzinski |
| A bill for an act relating to education; strengthening the Teachers of Color Act; increasing the percentage of teachers of color and American Indian teachers in Minnesota; amending the world’s best workforce requirements; requiring reports. | S.F. 619 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; establishing a pilot program to improve educational outcomes and accountability; requiring reports. | S.F. 620 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; allowing American Indian regalia or objects of cultural significance at graduation ceremonies. | S.F. 635 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring commissioner of education to develop a model program for sexual health education; requiring a report. | S.F. 662 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education; increasing the number of heritage language and culture teachers. | S.F. 663 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; expanding extended time revenue to all students placed at residential treatment facilities providing mental health or juvenile justice services. | S.F. 665 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for the community education revenue program. | S.F. 666 | Latz |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying provisions for teacher preparation time. | S.F. 680 | Cwodzinski |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring reasonable accommodations for parents of children with disabilities. | S.F. 681 | Hoffman |
| A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; providing annual tax holiday period for sales and purchases of school supplies. | S.F. 708 | Eichorn |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring an annual curriculum audit. | S.F. 722 | Duckworth |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing for participation in athletic teams. | S.F. 724 | Wesenberg |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a grant to the Children’s Museum of Rochester. | S.F. 725 | Nelson |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying requirements for parental curriculum review and consent for sexual education curriculum. | S.F. 734 | Coleman |
| A bill for an act relating to education; providing for computer science education advancement. | S.F. 757 | Gustafson |
| A bill for an act relating to education; establishing a grant program for investment in nature and gamesmanship education; requiring a report. | S.F. 768 | Hawj |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying provisions for teacher preparation time. | S.F. 771 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to state government; replacing references to Christopher Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. | S.F. 820 | Kunesh |
| A bill for an act relating to public employment; repealing authority for exclusive representatives to charge fair share fees. | S.F. 857 | Lucero |
| A bill for an act relating to education; amending the definition of public employee to include replacement employees who are employed for more than 60 days as a replacement teacher or faculty member. | S.F. 858 | Lucero |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for the community education for adults with disabilities program. | S.F. 864 | Maye Quade |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing ongoing grants to the Minnesota Council on Economic Education. | S.F. 865 | Westlin |
| A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing local optional revenue; linking future increases in local optional revenue to the growth in the general education basic formula allowance. | S.F. 866 | Westlin |
| A bill for an act relating to education; modifying alternative teacher preparation program grant eligibility. | S.F. 888 | Coleman |
| A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a personal finance class for high school graduation. | S.F. 901 | Cwodzinski |
House and Senate Education Taxation Bill Introductions
| Summary | Bill Number | Author |
| A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; providing annual tax holiday period for sales and purchases of school supplies. | H.F. 668 | Davis |