1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; requiring an annual
1.3 	report on tuition reciprocity from the Higher
1.4 	Education Services Office; requiring renegotiation of
1.5 	certain reciprocity agreements; amending Minnesota
1.6 	Statutes 2004, section 136A.08, by adding a
1.7 	subdivision.
1.8 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.9 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 136A.08, is
1.10 	amended by adding a subdivision to read:
1.11 		Subd. 7.Reporting. The Higher Education Services Office
1.12 	must annually submit a report to the committees in the house of
1.13 	representatives and the senate with responsibility for higher
1.14 	education on:
1.15 	(1) participation in the tuition reciprocity program by
1.16 	Minnesota students, and students from other states attending
1.17 	Minnesota postsecondary institutions;
1.18 	(2) reciprocity and resident tuition rates at each
1.19 	institution; and 
1.20 	(3) interstate payments and obligations for each state
1.21 	participating in the tuition reciprocity program in the prior
1.22 	year.

1.23 	Sec. 2. RECIPROCITY NEGOTIATIONS.
 1.24 		Subdivision 1.South dakota. The Higher Education
1.25 	Services Office must examine the feasibility of reinstating
1.26 	interstate payments in the Minnesota-South Dakota reciprocity
2.1 	program while maintaining the tuition reciprocity agreement.
2.2 	The office must examine the advantages and disadvantages of
2.3 	computing interstate payments under the reciprocity agreement
2.4 	and the impact of interstate payments on participating students,
2.5 	institutions, and the general fund of the two states.  The
2.6 	office must report on the feasibility and impacts of reciprocity
2.7 	payments to the committees of the legislature with
2.8 	responsibility for higher education by January 10, 2006.
2.9 		Subd. 2.Wisconsin. The Higher Education Services Office
2.10 	must, as soon as possible, commence negotiations with the state
2.11 	of Wisconsin on the tuition reciprocity agreement.  The
2.12 	negotiations must include the issue of the disparity between the
2.13 	tuition paid by Wisconsin residents and Minnesota residents at
2.14 	campuses of the University of Minnesota with a goal of reducing
2.15 	or eliminating the disparity.
2.16 	This section does not mandate the inclusion of any
2.17 	particular term in a tuition reciprocity agreement.