Updated 1/18/19

Below are links to bills that were introduced to the 2019 legislative session related to education. Overall, the Minnesota Senate introduced 91 bills on Thursday, Jan. 10. The Minnesota House of Representatives introduced 31 bills.

Senate Bills

S.F. No. 2: Senator Housley. Modifying day care initial licensure requirement; directing commissioner of human services to implement a child care provider communication process, develop a plain-language handbook, and develop a uniform family day care provider application; modifying child care tax credits.

S.F. No. 4: Senator Abeler. Clarifying counted income for eligibility determinations for public assistance and child care programs; creating surety bond requirements for child care program providers; modifying surety bond requirements for personal care assistance service providers and durable medical supply providers; modifying documentation requirements for child care program providers, personal care assistance providers, mental health providers, and home and community-based services providers; modifying commissioner of human services’ authority to exclude providers from programs administered by the commissioner; modifying provider enrollment requirements for medical assistance; establishing a visit verification system for home and community-based services.

S.F. No. 7: Senators Nelson; Wiger; Housley; Anderson, P., and Gazelka. Increasing revenue for the safe schools program.

S.F. No. 12: Senators Ruud; Nelson; Anderson, P.; Draheim, and Housley. Appropriating money for public school security audits.S.F. No. 14: Wiger, Wiklund. Requiring a nationally normed college entrance exam for high school graduation.

S.F. No. 15:  Senators Goggin, Lang, Eichorn, Pratt, and Nelson. Requiring school districts to provide certain access to career options in the military, skilled trades, and manufacturing.

S.F. No. 17: Requiring a government and citizenship course for graduation.

S.F. No. 19: Cwodzinski. Requiring personal finance for high school graduation.

S.F. No. 24: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, Clausen, and Little. Increasing the general education basic formula allowance; providing annual inflationary increases in the basic formula allowance for fiscal year 2022 and later.

S.F. No. 25: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, Clausen, and Little. Authorizing school districts to bond for certain security equipment; modifying the safe schools revenue program.

S.F. No. 26: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, Clausen, and Little. Increasing revenue for English learner programs.

S.F. No. 27:  Senators Wiger, Clausen, and Little. Expanding access to the innovation research zones pilot program.

S.F. No. 28: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, and Kent. Requiring school districts to pay the cost of a college entrance exam for all students in grade 11 or 12; appropriating money to reimburse districts for college entrance exam costs.

S.F. No. 29: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, and Clausen. Increasing equalization levels for school district local optional levies.

S.F. No. 30: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, and Clausen. A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing equalization levels for school district and referendum levies.

S.F. No. 31: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, and Clausen. A bill for an act relating to education finance; increasing equalization levels for school district debt service levies.

S.F. No. 32: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, and Clausen. Authorizing school districts to use long-term facilities maintenance revenue programs for physical modifications enhancing school facility safety; modifying the calculation of long-term facilities maintenance revenue.

S.F. No. 33: Senators Wiger and Kent. Requiring assessment of school readiness for children entering kindergarten.

S.F. No. 37: Senators Wiger, Cwodzinski, Kent, and Clausen. Appropriating money for grants to full-service community schools.

S.F. No. 49: Senator Wiger. Providing for a digital student achievement backpack.

S.F. No. 50: Senator Wiger. Appropriating money for school safety grants; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.

S.F. No. 55: Senators Wiger and Kent. Modifying the calculation of special education aid; appropriating money.

S.F. No. 81: Senators Wiger and Kent. Establishing a Minnesota Reads task force to review literacy programs for children and adults; requiring a report.

S.F. No. 89: Senator Nelson. Modifying school-linked mental health services grants.

S.F. No. 94, Eichorn, Johnson, Hall, Kiffmeyer, and Nelson: A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing certain nonpublic students to enroll in postsecondary enrollment options in 10th grade; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 124D.09, subdivision 4.

Referred to the Committee on E-12 Finance and Policy.

S.F. No. 108, Wiklund and Franzen: A bill for an act relating to education finance; authorizing a grant for The Works Museum; appropriating money.

S.F. No. 109, Rest, Wiger, Isaacson, and Latz: Authorizing school districts to renew expiring referendums by action of school board; amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 126C.17, by adding a subdivision.

S.F. No. 116, Clausen, Chamberlain, Hoffman, Kent, and Pratt: Requiring teacher training to enable a teacher to implement instructional strategies to meet the needs of students with dyslexia.

S.F. No. 122, Clausen and Wiger: Increasing the general education basic formula allowance; providing annual inflationary increases in the basic formula allowance for fiscal year 2022 and later.

S.F. No. 123, Clausen, Chamberlain, and Wiger: Requiring teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia.

S.F. No. 136, Newton and Hoffman: Authorizing school districts to renew expiring referendums and capital project referendums by action of school board.

S.F. No. 137, Nelson: A bill for an act relating to economic development; appropriating money for sustainable child care in rural Minnesota.

S.F. No. 148: Dziedzic, Kent, and Cwodzinski: Requiring a school counselor in every school.

S.F. No. 159, Clausen, Pratt, Dahms, Kent, and Utke: A bill modifying the individualized education program requirements.

S.F. No. 161, Clausen, Pratt, Dziedzic, Wiger, and Kent: Prohibiting public employers from reducing compensation of Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board members.

S.F. No. 162, Clausen, Hoffman, and Carlson: Requiring commissioner of education to develop child abuse awareness posters; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes.

S.F. No. 177, Bigham; Wiger; Abeler; Anderson, P.; and Nelson: Requiring school safety assessment teams.

S.F. No. 188, Dziedzic, Kent, Pappas, and Torres Ray: Requiring affirmative consent instruction.

S.F. No. 193, Rest, Nelson, Wiger, Cwodzinski, and Benson: Providing for cursive instruction in elementary school.

S.F. No. 196, Clausen, Chamberlain, Draheim, Isaacson, and Anderson, P.: Requiring teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia.

S.F. No. 201, Bigham, Johnson, Koran, Eichorn, and Eaton: Requiring school districts to conduct radon testing.

S.F. No. 218, Dziedzic, Little, Wiger, and Simonson: Creating a state fund to pay for unreimbursed special education costs.

S.F. No. 229, Eichorn, Utke, Kent, and Simonson: Appropriating money for Minnesota reading and math corps programs at American Indian-controlled tribal contract and grant schools.

S.F. No. 234, Wiger, Chamberlain, Kent, Cwodzinski, and Franzen: Appropriating money for grants to support Race 2 Reduce water conversation programming in Minnesota schools.

S.F. No. 238, Housley, Eichorn, Chamberlain, Wiger, and Koran: Modifying the calculation of the pupil transportation adjustment; providing for a pupil transportation working group.

S.F. No. 244, Anderson, P.; Clausen; Pratt; Hoffman; and Eichorn: Amending conciliation conference requirements.

S.F. No. 246, Pratt and Anderson, P.: Providing a temporary refundable credit for teachers of concurrent enrollment students.

S.F. No. 247, Pratt, Clausen, Rosen, and Anderson, B.: Providing for disposal of unclaimed drugs or medications in schools.

S.F. No. 269, Hayden: Expanding access to driver education programs for low-income students; establishing a driver education work group.

S.F. No. 275,Clausen; Wiger; Kent; Anderson, P.; and Dahms: Establishing a continuing education program for career and technical education licensure.

 

House of Representative Bills

H.F. 1: Kotyza-Witthuhn, Pinto, Liebling, Davnie, Youakim, Olson, Bahner, Howard, Christensen, Lippert, Gomez, Schultz, Cantrell, Hornstein, Long, Persell, Halverson, Kunesh-Podein, Mariani, Freiberg, Sandell, Wazlawik, Noor, Hortman, Winkler, Pryor, Lee, Wolgamott, Huot, Lislegard, Sundin, Lesch, Ecklund and Lillie. Creating additional funding and opportunities for children ages birth to three; governing certain programs and funding for prenatal care services, home visiting, early childhood education, and child care assistance.

H.F. 2: Edelson, Christensen, Davnie, Youakim, Mariani, Lillie, Mann, Schultz, Loeffler, Hornstein, Bahner, Cantrell, Howard, Long, Lippert, Gomez, Pinto, Persell, Liebling, Kunesh-Podein, Halverson, Becker-Finn, Freiberg, Sandell, Wazlawik, Noor, Hortman, Winkler, Pryor, Lee, Wolgamott, Huot, Lislegard, Sundin and Ecklund. Increasing funding for school-linked mental health services grants; providing funding for full-service community schools; extending funding for support our students grants; funding the homework starts with home program; increasing funding for the collaborative urban educator program.

H. F. 16: Urdahl, Sandstede, Ecklund, Erickson, Gruenhagen, Poppe, Backer, Layman, Daniels, Gunther, Davids, Fabian, Sundin, Torkelson, Haley and Grossell. Modifying the calculation of small schools revenue.

H. F. 19: Erickson. Modifying the world’s best workforce performance measures and reports.

H. F. 20: Erickson. Renumbering statutes for intermediate school districts.

H. F. 21: Erickson. Surveying teacher preparation programs.

H.F. 22, Erickson. Modifying student testing provisions.

H. F. 23, Erickson. Requiring school district ethics complaints procedures.

H. F. 26: Kunesh-Podein; Moran; Persell; Hausman; Fischer; Gomez; Elkins; Morrison; Carlson, A.; Howard; Vang; Xiong, T.; Her; Claflin and Sauke. Increasing funding for school-linked mental health services grants; providing funding for full-service community schools; extending funding for support our students grants; funding the homework starts with home program; increasing funding for the collaborative urban educator program.

H. F. 30: Moran; Hausman; Persell; Carlson, A.; Her; Morrison; Elkins; Kunesh-Podein; Vang; Claflin and Sauke. Creating additional funding and opportunities for children ages birth to three; governing certain programs and funding for prenatal care services, home visiting, early childhood education, and child care assistance.

H.F. 55, Jurgens and Cantrell. A bill for an act relating to education; modifying school meal provisions.

H.F. 57, Erickson. Making various nonsubstantive style and form changes; repealing obsolete statutes.

H.F. 72, Gunther: Authorizing school districts to use long-term facilities maintenance revenue for school facility demolition and debris removal.

H. F. 73, Gunther: Expanding the use of extended time to pupils enrolled in career and technical education courses.

H.F. 114, Lucero, Quam, O’Neill, McDonald and Swedzinski. Creating a minimum revenue guarantee for low revenue school districts.

H.F. 115, Lucero, Quam, McDonald, O’Neill and Swedzinski. Creating a new source of state aid for school districts with low general education revenue and low property wealth per pupil.

H.F. 116, Freiberg; Carlson, L.; Bernardy; Lillie; Davnie and Youakim: Authorizing school districts to renew expiring referendums by action of school board.

H.F. 118, Dettmer, Ecklund and Xiong, J.: Requiring school districts to provide certain access to career options in the military, skilled trades, and manufacturing.

H.F. 125, Bennett, Erickson, Kresha, Cantrell, Davnie, Urdahl, Anderson and Sandstede: Establishing an evidence-based grant standard for any legislative grants awarded to organizations for prekindergarten through grade 12 education programs.

H.F. 151, Urdahl; Carlson, L.; Torkelson; Bennett and Anderson: Establishing a working group to review progress on Minnesota’s school finance reform efforts.

H.F. 163, Youakim: School board vacancies; making technical changes.

H.F. 169, Daniels: Modifying charter school admission lotteries.

H.F. 193, Murphy, Olson and Schultz: Increasing special education funding for school districts; reducing the tuition billbacks to resident school districts; adding operating referendum revenue to general education revenue for charter schools.

H.F. 194, Murphy, Olson and Schultz: Increasing special education funding for school districts; reducing the tuition billbacks to resident school districts; adding local optional revenue and operating referendum revenue to general education revenue for charter schools.

H.F. 196, Freiberg; Carlson, L.; Christensen; Persell; Mann; Elkins and Lippert: Requiring seat belts on newly purchased school buses.

H.F. 199, Urdahl: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; providing a temporary refundable credit for teachers of concurrent enrollment students.