Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: HF0630

HF 630 Omnibus E-12 Education Bill
THIRD ENGROSSMENT
ARTICLE ONE: GENERAL
EDUCATION
Section 1: Pupil age limitation provision modified.
Section 2:
Length of school year and hours of instruction provisions modified.
Section 3:
Elementary pupil definition modified.
Section 4: Postsecondary enrollment
options for pupils modified to allow school district transportation in some
circumstances.
Section 5: Student transportation definitions modified to
accommodate homeless siblings.
Section 6: School district transportation report
provisions modified.
Section 7: Board-adopted kindergarten early admission
policy allowed.
Section 8: Alternative program provisions modified.
Section 9:
Career and technical levy provisions modified.
Section 10: Referendum market
value equalizing factor defined.
Section 11: Pupil unit provisions
modified.
Section 12: Learning year pupil unit provisions modified.
Section
13: School district general education revenue provision modified.
Section 14:
District basic revenue formula allowance increased.
Section 15: Total operating
capital revenue uses modified.
Section 16: Equity revenue provisions
modified.
Section 17: Equity levy calculation modified.
Section 18: Transition
levy calculation modified.
Section 19: Basic skills revenue use provision
modified.
Section 20: Compensatory revenue building allocation provisions
modified.
Section 21: Referendum allowance calculation modified.
Section 22:
Referendum equalization revenue provisions modified.
Section 23: Referendum
equalization levy provisions modified.
Section 24: District lease purchase and
installment buy provisions modified.
Section 25: Safe schools levy provisions
modified.
Section 26: Taconite payment and other levy reductions provisions
modified.
Section 27: Alternative attendance program provisions
modified.
Section 28: Fiscal year 2014 equity aid provided for.
Section 29:
General education aid money appropriated to various funds and programs.
Section
30: Referendum revenue sparsity exception repealed.
ARTICLE TWO: STUDENT
ACCOUNTABILITY
Section 1: Student accountability terms defined.
Section 2:
Educational expectation and graduation requirements for Minnesota students
provisions modified.
Section 3: Statewide required academic standards
modified.
Section 4: Benchmarks provisions modified.
Section 5: Graduation
requirements and credit equivalency provisions modified.
Section 6:
Postsecondary education transition planning provisions modified.
Section 7:
Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) program provisions
modified.
Section 8: Mental health education by school districts and charter
schools encouraged.
Section 9: Statewide testing provisions modified.
Section
10: Statewide and local assessment results provisions modified and terms
defined.
Section 11: Educational accountability and public reporting provision
modified.
Section 12: State growth target and other state measurement
provisions modified.
Section 13: School performance report provisions
modified.
Section 14: Standard high school diploma for adults development
required and provided for.
Section 15: Minnesota's world's best workforce goals
and plans established and provided for.
Section 16: Statewide assessment and
accountability transition provided for.
Section 17: Career pathways and
technical education advisory task force established and provided for.
Section
18: Standard adult high school diploma advisory task force appointed and
provided for.
Section 19: Differentiated graduation rate measures implemented
and alternative routes to a standard diploma for at-risk and off-track students
explored.
Section 20: Minnesota Department of Education and statewide testing
and reporting system money appropriated.
Section 21: Revisor instructed to
renumber and make necessary cross-reference changes.
Section 22: Various
Minnesota rules repealed.
ARTICLE THREE: EDUCATION EXCELLENCE
Section 1:
School health services drugs and medicine exclusion provision modified.
Section
2: Epinephrine auto-injectors possession and use policy provisions
modified.
Section 3: Districts and schools permitted to maintain a supply of
epinephrine auto-injectors.
Section 4: Board of Teaching licensing and rules
provision modified.
Section 5: Teacher and support personnel qualifications
modified.
Section 6: Teacher applicants licensed in other states provisions
modified.
Section 7: K-12 teacher license and relicensure to teach deaf and
hard-of hearing students provisions modified.
Section 8: Head varsity coach
notice of nonrenewal provision modified and clarified.
Section 9: Staff
development revenue provision modified.
Section 10: Online and Digital Learning
Advisory Council provisions modified.
Section 11: Flexible learning year
program provision modified.
Section 12: Minnesota math corps program
established and provided for.
Section 13: English learner provisions
modified.
Section 14: General requirements for English learner programs
modified.
Section 15: American Indian education community involvement provision
modified.
Section 16: Consultation with the Tribal Nations Education Committee
on all issues relating to American Indian education required by the commissioner
of education.
Section 17: Indian education director appointment required and
provided for.
Section 18: Achievement and Integration for Minnesota program
established and provided for.
Section 19: Achievement and integration revenue
provided for.
Section 20: School climate council established and provided
for.
Section 21: School climate center established and provided for.
Section
22: Teacher Licensure Advisory Task Force established and provided for.
Section
23: School climate center first-year priorities established.
Section 24:
Student support services team staffing approach development and submission
required.
Section 25: Achievement and integration levy adjustment
required.
Section 26: Department of Education money appropriated to various
funds.
ARTICLE FOUR: CHARTER SCHOOLS
Section 1: Charter schools provisions
modified.
Section 2: Continuing truant provision modified to include charter
schools.
Section 3: Continuing truant parental or guardian notification
provision modified.
Section 4: Attendance review board provision modified to
include charter schools.
Section 5: Truancy mediation program provision
modified to include charter schools.
Section 6: Charter school building lease
aid money appropriated.
Section 7: Revisor instructed to recodify charter
school provisions.

ARTICLE FIVE: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Section 1: Interagency
Coordinating Council expiration dependent on federal law.
Section 2: Charter
school special education aid provisions modified.
Section 3: Special education
definitions modified.
Section 4: Restrictive procedures provisions
modified.
Section 5: Special education nonresident tuition rate and other cost
provisions modified.
Section 6: Eligibility for Part C modified.
Section 7:
Interagency child find systems provision modified.
Section 8: Interagency Early
Childhood Intervention System "parent" definition modified.
Section 9: State
Interagency Coordinating Council provisions modified.
Section 10:
Responsibilities of county and school boards with regards to special education
provisions modified.
Section 11: Interagency early intervention committee
provisions modified.
Section 12: Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
provisions modified.
Section 13: IFSP service coordination provisions
modified.
Section 14: Early intervention allocation of resources provision
modified.
Section 15: Core early intervention services payment provisions
modified.
Section 16: Mediation procedures modified.
Section 17: Special
education revenue definitions modified.
Section 18: Special education initial
aid provided for.
Section 19: Special education aid formula modified.
Section
20: Statewide average special education expenditure calculation
required.
Section 21: Tuition reciprocity with adjoining states provisions
modified.
Section 22: Special education forecast maintenance of effort
provisions modified.
Section 23: Special education aid adjustment provision
modified.
Section 24: Special education excess cost aid definitions
modified.
Section 25: Special education initial excess cost aid provision
modified.
Section 26: Special education case loads task force established and
provided for.
Section 27: Commissioner of education required to use expedited
rulemaking process to amend Minnesota Rules related to providing special
education under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act.
Section 28: Special education money appropriated.
Section 29: Various
provisions repealed.
ARTICLE SIX: FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY
Section 1: Debt
service appropriation provision modified.
Section 2: General obligation bonding
no election provision modified.
Section 3: Independent School District No. 625,
St. Paul bonding authorization provision modified.
Section 4: Cyrus and Morris
school district consolidation provided for.
Section 5: Department of Education
facilities and technology money appropriated.
ARTICLE SEVEN: NUTRITION;
LIBRARIES; ACCOUNTING
Section 1: School lunch aid computation
modified.
Section 2: Summer food service replacement aid provision
modified.
Section 3: Library grants and aid provisions modified.
Section 4:
Regional library basic system support aid requirements modified.
Section 5:
Regional library basic system support aid agreement requirement language
modified.
Section 7: Regional library basic system support aid report language
modified.
Section 8: Multicounty, multitype library system operating aid
language modified.
Section 9: Basic regional library system appropriation
language modified.
Section 10: Basic regional library system grant application
language modified.
Section 11: Basic regional library system per capita
distribution language modified.
Section 12: Basic regional library system per
square mile distribution language modified.
Section 13: Basic regional library
system appropriation language modified.
Section 14: Basic regional library
system adjusted net tax capacity per capita distribution language
modified.
Section 15: Basic regional library system rules language
modified.
Section 16: Fund transfer provisions modified for fiscal years 2014
and 2015 only.
Section 17: School payment shifts provision modified.
Section
18: Money appropriated to various funds and programs.
Section 19: Revisor
instructed to make various substitutions and grammatical changes.
ARTICLE
EIGHT: EARLY CHILDHOOD; SELF-SUFFICIENCY; LIFELONG LEARNING
Section 1: Early
learning scholarship data provision modified.
Section 2: Minnesota Youth
Council Committee established and provided for.
Section 3: Early learning
scholarships established and provided for.
Section 4: State total adult basic
education aid provisions modified.
Section 5: Early childhood education
scholarships provisions modified.
Section 6: Minnesota Youth Council Committee
director required to establish an expedited process to award scholarships for
fiscal year 2014 only.
Section 7: Early education money appropriated.
ARTICLE
NINE: STATE AGENCIES
Section 1: Deparment of Education money
appropriated.
Section 2: Minnesota State Academies money appropriated.
Section
3: Perpich Center for Arts Education money appropriated.
ARTICLE TEN: FORECAST
ADJUSTMENTS
A. GENERAL EDUCATION
Section 1: General education aid adjustments
made.
Section 2: Enrollment options transportation adjustments made.
Section
3: Abatement revenue adjustments made.
Section 4: Consolidation transition
adjustments made.
Section 5: Nonpublic pupil education aid adjustments
made.
Section 6: Nonpublic pupil transportation adjustments made.
Section 7:
Compensatory pilot project formula aid adjustments made.
B. EDUCATION
EXCELLENCE
Section 8: Charter school building lease aid adjustments
made.
Section 9: Integration aid adjustments made.
Section 10: Literacy
incentive aid adjustments made.
Section 11: Interdistrict desegregation or
integration transportation grants adjustments made.
Section 12 Success for the
future adjustments made.
Section 13: Tribal contract school aid adjustments
made.
C. SPECIAL EDUCATION
Section 14: Regular special education aid
adjustments made.
Section 15: Aid for children with disabilities adjustments
made.
Section 16: Travel for home-based services adjustments made.
Section 17:
Special education excess costs adjustments made.
D. FACILITIES AND
TECHNOLOGY
Section 18: Health and safety revenue adjustments made.
Section 19:
Debt service equalization adjustments made.
Section 20: Alternative facilities
bonding aid adjustments made.
Section 21: Deferred maintenance aid adjustments
made.
E. NUTRITION AND LIBRARIES
Section 22: School lunch adjustments
made.
Section 23: School breakfast adjustments made.
Section 24: Kindergarten
milk adjustments made.
Section 25: Basic system support adjustments
made.
Section 26: Multicounty, multitype library systems adjustments
made.
Section 27: Regional library telecommunications aid adjustments made.
F.
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, PREVENTION, AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Section 28: School
readiness adjustments made.
Section 29: Early childhood family education aid
adjustments made.
Section 30: Health and developmental screening aid
adjustments made.
Section 31: Community education aid adjustments
made.
Section 32: Adults with disabilities program aid adjustments
made.
Section 33: Adult basic education aid adjustments made.