1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; providing tuition stability at Minnesota State 
1.3 	Colleges and Universities; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS; TUITION STABILITY.
 1.6 	$24,000,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $49,000,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated 
1.7 	to the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities from the 
1.8 	general fund to supplement instructional appropriations in lieu of tuition increases. This 
1.9 	appropriation is available only if the following conditions are met: 
1.10 	(1) legislative appropriations for the 2008-2009 biennium are at least $177,000,000 
1.11 	over the base in the current biennium; and 
1.12 	(2) during the 2008-2009 biennium, the board of trustees does not increase tuition 
1.13 	above the level of the 2006-2007 academic year.