1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; appropriating money for the Minnesota campus 
1.3 	compact and its postsecondary service learning, access, and opportunity 
1.4 	initiatives.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; MINNESOTA CAMPUS COMPACT.
 1.7 	(a) The amounts in this section are appropriated from the general fund to the 
1.8 	Minnesota Office of Higher Education for the Minnesota campus compact and the 
1.9 	purposes specified.
1.10 	(b) $225,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $225,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated 
1.11 	for the operations of the Minnesota campus compact.
1.12 	(c) $115,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $115,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated 
1.13 	to award campus-community collaboration and service learning grants to postsecondary 
1.14 	institutions that are members of the Minnesota campus compact.
1.15 	(d) $100,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $100,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated 
1.16 	to support Minnesota campus compact initiatives including making higher education 
1.17 	affordable, leveraging literacy for access, promoting campus peer mentoring, and 
1.18 	strengthening civic leadership.