1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to education; modifying governance of the 
  1.3             state high school league; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.4             1998, section 128C.02, by adding a subdivision; 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 128C.01, 
  1.6             subdivision 4. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 
  1.9   128C.01, subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 4.  [BOARD.] (a) The league must have a 20-member 
  1.11  governing board. 
  1.12     (1) The governor must appoint four members according to 
  1.13  section 15.0597.  Each of the four appointees must be a parent.  
  1.14  At least one of them must be an American Indian, an Asian, a 
  1.15  Black, or a Hispanic. 
  1.16     (2) The Minnesota association of secondary school 
  1.17  principals must appoint two of its members. 
  1.18     (3) The remaining 14 members must be selected according to 
  1.19  league bylaws and must be elected school board members.  
  1.20     (b) The terms, compensation, removal of members, and the 
  1.21  filling of membership vacancies are governed by section 15.0575, 
  1.22  except that the four-year terms begin on August 1 and end on 
  1.23  July 31.  As provided by section 15.0575, members who are 
  1.24  full-time state employees or full-time employees of school 
  1.25  districts or other political subdivisions of the state may not 
  1.26  receive any per diem payment for service on the board. 
  2.1      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 128C.02, is 
  2.2   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  2.3      Subd. 10.  [REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY.] Members of the 
  2.4   representative assembly who are representing public schools must 
  2.5   be elected school board members.