Senate Bill Introductions – February 28, 2022
The following bills were introduced by the Minnesota State Senate on February 28, 2022. We hope that you monitor these posts, as it keeps you updated and informed about the bills under consideration that may impact school boards and school districts across the state. Whether it is a new mandate, or more/less funding for certain programs it is important for you to know how these bills may impact your district.
Senate E-12 Finance and Policy Bill Introductions
| Bill Number | Summary | Author |
S.F. 3488 |
A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing the age range of children served by school-age care programs; increasing funding for school-age care programs; appropriating money | Cwodzinski |
S.F. 3500 |
A bill for an act relating to education finance; creating a grant program to provide funding for a onetime payment for any teacher with an educational loan; appropriating money | Klein |
S.F. 3506 |
A bill for an act relating to education finance; modifying the state general tax; depositing state general tax receipts in an account in the special revenue fund; appropriating money to reduce the special education cross subsidy | Klein |
S.F. 3534 |
A bill for an act relating to education; modifying charter school admission requirements | Chamberlain |
S.F. 3554 |
A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing long-term facilities maintenance revenue; increasing local optional revenue; providing enhanced debt service equalization aid for consolidating school districts; reducing school district property taxes; increasing equalization aids for school formulas; appropriating money | Cwodzinski |
S.F. 3557 |
A bill for an act relating to education; creating an ethnic studies requirement; creating an Ethnic Studies Task Force; authorizing rulemaking; requiring a report; appropriating money | Kunesh |
S.F. 3570 |
A bill for an act relating to education; providing for short-call substitute teacher licensing provisions for rural Minnesota | Westrom |
S.F. 3578 |
A bill for an act relating to education; establishing a computer science education foundational blueprint to support the statewide expansion of computer science education; requiring a task force; appropriating money | Koran |
S.F. 3586 |
A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing funding for community education programming; appropriating money | Coleman |
S.F. 3587 |
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for P-TECH schools | Nelson |
S.F. 3596 |
A bill for an act relating to education; appropriating money for a grant to Reach Out and Read Minnesota program | Coleman |
S.F. 3599 |
A bill for an act relating to education finance; appropriating money for a Truce Center programming grant | Champion |
Other Bill Introductions of Interest
| Bill Number | Summary | Author |
S.F. 3482 |
A bill for an act relating to local and state government; abolishing the Metropolitan Council; transferring duties to the commissioners of administration and natural resources; transferring transportation and transit-related functions to Department of Transportation; making conforming amendments to public safety radio communication laws, fiscal disparity laws; providing for payment of bonds and other debt obligations; repealing metropolitan land use planning provisions; ending Metropolitan Council oversight of Metropolitan Airports Commission; transferring Metropolitan Council powers and authority to Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission; creating metropolitan area sanitary sewer district; appropriating money | Osmek |
S.F. 3483 |
A bill for an act relating to families; creating a parent’s bill of rights | Kiffmeyer
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S.F. 3484 |
A bill for an act relating to taxation; tax-forfeited land sales; requiring that property owners be paid just compensation for the taking and sale of tax-forfeited property | Kiffmeyer |
S.F. 3577 |
A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for capital improvements to children’s museums across the state | Eichorn |
Elections Bill Introductions
| Bill Number | Summary | Author |
S.F. 3537 |
A bill for an act relating to elections; requiring people who register on election day to cast provisional ballots; requiring voters with a challenged registration status to cast provisional ballots; making technical and conforming changes | Jasinski |
Human Resources Bill Introductions
| Bill Number | Summary | Author |
S.F. 3491 |
A bill for an act relating to employment; ensuring unemployment insurance benefits for an individual terminated for not adhering to a vaccination mandate; allowing proof of recovery from COVID-19 as a substitution for required vaccination | Dornink |
S.F. 3541 |
A bill for an act relating to retirement; establishing a work group to study member communications by the statewide pension systems; requiring a report. | Rosen |
S.F. 3542 |
A bill for an act relating to the State Board of Investment; making administrative and technical changes clarifying the classification of professional employees | Rosen |
S.F. 3558 |
A bill for an act relating to education; providing for retirement service credit for certain school employees. | Cwodzinski |