Bill Introductions for January 9-13, 2023

Bill Introductions for January 9-13, 2023

The following education-related bills were introduced in the Minnesota Legislature during the second 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.

Scroll below to view this week’s bills or download individual spreadsheets for the House and Senate.

Bill Introductions for January 9-13, 2023
H.F. 118-336
S.F. 51-286

Senate Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions

Summary Bill Number Author
A bill for an act relating to education; establishing student support personnel aid; appropriating money.

S.F. 56

Hoffman
A bill for an act relating to public safety; appropriating money for additional school safety specialists at the Minnesota School Safety Center.

S.F. 65

Draheim
A bill for an act relating to education finance; lowering the property tax levy share and increasing the state aid share of operating referendum revenue for qualifying special school districts; appropriating money.

S.F. 100

Klein
 A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing referendum equalization aid for certain special schools; appropriating money.

S.F. 101

Klein
A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a fund transfer for Independent School District No. 191, Burnsville-Eagan-Savage.

S.F. 132

Port
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for small school district disability access grants.

S.F. 237

Draheim
A bill for an act relating to transportation; appropriating money for a school bus safety education campaign.

S.F. 243

Draheim
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.

S.F. 286

Morrison

 

A bill for an act relating to human services; establishing the Office of Juvenile Restorative Justice; requiring local steering committees to establish local juvenile restorative justice programs; establishing grants; requiring reports; appropriating money.

S.F. 55

Champion
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing educational data sharing with Tribal nations about Tribally enrolled or descendent students.

S.F.60

Kunesh
A bill for an act relating to education; prohibiting dismissals of students in kindergarten through grade 3; appropriating money.

S.F. 69

Mann
A bill for an act relating to families; creating a parent’s bill of rights.

S.F.76

Gruenhagen
A joint resolution relating to Religious Freedom Day.

S.F. 85

Marty
A bill for an act relating to education; providing for reporting of student fights.

S.F. 86

Koran
A bill for an act relating to public safety; allowing permitted and trained school staff to carry firearms.

S.F. 90

Koran
A bill for an act relating to holiday observances; requiring school observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day; establishing Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a state holiday and eliminating Christopher Columbus Day as a state holiday.

S.F. 104

Kunesh
A bill for an act relating to pupil transportation; requiring seat belts on newly purchased school buses.

S.F. 122

Rest
A bill for an act relating to education; providing for school lunch and breakfast for all students.

S.F. 123

Gustafson
A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a postsecondary institution to notify a school of student withdrawal; requiring a student to provide a school with a copy of grades taken for secondary credit.

S.F. 182

Gruenhagen
A bill for an act relating to education; providing for nonexclusionary discipline.

S.F. 183

Maye Quade
 A bill for an act relating to education; removing the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board’s rulemaking authority; directing the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board to amend a rule.

S.F. 205

Pratt
 A bill for an act relating to education; providing for equal access to school athletic teams and facilities.

S.F. 206

Port
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing resident nonpublic school pupils to participate in extracurricular activities.

S.F. 216

Eichorn
 A bill for an act relating to education; allowing resident charter school students to participate in extracurricular activities.

S.F. 223

Eichorn
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing all resident home school students to participate in extracurricular activities.

S.F.224

Eichorn
A bill for an act relating to education; requiring school boards to publish certain information about consulting fees.

S.F. 239

Draheim
 A bill for an act relating to motor vehicles; requiring school buses to be equipped with stop-signal arm extensions.

S.F. 241

Draheim
A bill for an act relating to education; requiring an online personal finance class for high school graduation.

S.F. 242

Draheim
A bill for an act relating to data practices; requiring interagency group meetings to be open to the public.

S.F. 262

Green

 

Senate Human Resources Bill Introductions

A bill for an act relating to retirement; Public Employees Retirement Association; extending the payment period for the purchase of service credit for periods of military service.

S.F. 208

Howe

 

Senate Grant Program Bill Introductions

A bill for an act relating to child care; modifying child care stabilization base grants; appropriating money.

S.F. 53

Wicklund
A bill for an act relating to education finance; promoting digital well-being education and training for the health, mental well-being, and learning of all Minnesota students as it relates to the use of digital media; appropriating money for a Minnesota-based organization that collaborates with communities to promote digital well-being.

S.F. 163

Morrison
 A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for the safe routes to school grant program.

S.F. 283

Nelson

 

Senate-Other Bills of Note

A bill for an act relating to cannabis; establishing the Office of Cannabis Management; establishing advisory councils; legalizing and limiting the possession and use of cannabis by adults; providing for the licensing, inspection, and regulation of cannabis businesses; establishing labor standards for the use of cannabis by employees and testing of employees.

S.F. 73

Port
A bill for an act relating to state government; establishing the Minnesota Youth Advisory Council.

S.F. 194

Cwodzinski

 

House Education Finance and Policy Bill Introductions

A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a fund transfer for Independent School District No. 191, Burnsville-Eagan-Savage.

H.F. 180

Hanson, J.
A bill for an act relating to public safety; appropriating money for teacher and school staff training in dangerous situations in schools and to provide teachers and school staff with firearms.

H.F. 256

Quam
A bill for an act relating to education finance; adjusting special education revenue for Independent School District No. 709, Duluth; creating a base adjustment; authorizing supplemental special education aid; appropriating money.

H.F. 336

Kozlowski
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing educational data sharing with Tribal nations about Tribally enrolled or descendent students.

H.F. 133

Becker-Finn
A bill for an act relating to education; requiring reasonable accommodations for parents of children with disabilities; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes.

H.F.142

Freiberg
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; appropriating money.

H.F. 160

Freiberg
A bill for an act relating to education; requiring commissioner of education to develop a model program for sexual health education; requiring a report.

H.F. 174

Jordan
A bill for an act relating to pupil transportation; requiring seat belts on newly purchased school buses.

H.F. 182

Freiberg
A bill for an act relating to local government; amending the conditions for participation in an open meeting from a nonpublic location.

H.F. 198

Koegel
A bill for an act relating to holiday observances; requiring school observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day; establishing Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a state holiday and eliminating Christopher Columbus Day as a state holiday.

H.F. 211

Keeler
A bill for an act proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, article XIII, section 1; providing for a fundamental right to quality public education for all children.

H.F. 242

Kresha
A bill for an act relating to education; prohibiting certain material in school libraries.

H.F. 248

Quam
A bill for an act relating to education; providing for nonexclusionary discipline.

H.F. 271

Edelson
A joint resolution relating to Religious Freedom Day.

H.F. 275

Freiberg
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; appropriating money.

H.F. 320

Hassan
A bill for an act relating to government data practices; limiting the educational data that may be designated as publicly available directory information; allowing private educational data to be shared with government entities having a legitimate education interest in the data.

H.F. 321

Becker-Finn
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing resident charter school students to participate in extracurricular activities.

H.F. 324

Heintzeman
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing all resident home school students to participate in extracurricular activities.

H.F. 325

Heintzeman
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing resident nonpublic school pupils to participate in extracurricular activities.

H.F.326

Heintzeman

 

House Human Resources Bill Introductions

A bill for an act relating to education; modifying short-call substitute teacher requirements.

H.F. 143

Mueller
A bill for an act relating to unemployment; modifying notice requirements.

H.F. 157

Feist
A bill for an act relating to education; modifying requirements for interpreters.

H.F. 170

Becker-Finn
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.

H.F. 219

Quam
A bill for an act relating to labor; restricting public union release time.

H.F. 254

Quam
A bill for an act relating to education; allowing school districts to access personnel files of prospective teachers from their employing districts.

H.F. 331

Quam
A bill for an act relating to public employment; repealing authority for exclusive representatives to charge fair share fees.

H.F. 332

Quam
A bill for an act relating to education; modifying provisions for teachers licensed in another state to teach in Minnesota.

H.F. 333

Quam

 

House Elections Bill Introductions

A bill for an act relating to elections; clarifying prohibitions on soliciting at or near a polling place.

H.F. 205

Bahner

 

House Grant Program Bill Introductions

A bill for an act relating to education finance; promoting digital well-being education and training for the health, mental well-being, and learning of all Minnesota students as it relates to the use of digital media; appropriating money for a Minnesota-based organization that collaborates with communities to promote digital well-being.

H.F. 192

Feist
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for grants for emergency medical services courses for high school students.

H.F. 193

Huot
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.

H.F. 203

Berg

 

House Other Bills of Note

A bill for an act relating to state government; establishing the Minnesota Youth Advisory Council.

H.F. 158

Feist

 

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