Bill > HF5237

This bill provides supplemental funding for education and related child and family services for the fiscal year 2024-2025. * **General Education Aid:** Increases general education aid by $30.5 million for FY 2024 and $34.5 million for FY 2025, from the General Fund. * **Area Learning Center Transportation Aid:** Appropriates $1 million annually for FY 2024 and FY 2025 for transportation aid to area learning centers, from the General Fund. * **English Learner Revenue:** Modifies the revenue calculation for English learner programs, increasing per-pupil amounts for FY 2024-2026 and FY 2027 onwards, from the General Fund. * **English Learner Cross Subsidy Aid:** Establishes a new aid for English learner cross subsidy, calculated as 25% of the district's English learner cross subsidy for FY 2027 and later, from the General Fund. * **Unemployment Benefits Reimbursement:** Modifies the payment schedule for unemployment benefit reimbursements to school districts and charter schools, paying 90% in the current year and 10% in the following year, from the General Fund. * **Basic Skills Revenue:** Adjusts the calculation for basic skills revenue to include English learner revenue under both subdivision 5 and the new subdivision 5a, from the General Fund. * **Operating Capital Levy:** Adjusts the operating capital equalizing factor for FY 2024-2026, from the General Fund. * **Pupil Transportation Adjustment:** Increases transportation sparsity revenue for independent, common, or special school districts and charter schools by 35% of certain differences in transportation costs, from the General Fund. * **Statewide Average Revenue:** Modifies the definition of adjusted general revenue to include local optional revenue and equity revenue, from the General Fund. * **General Education Aid:** Increases general education aid appropriations for FY 2024 and FY 2025. * **One-Room Schoolhouse Aid:** Provides $65,000 annually for FY 2024 and FY 2025 to Independent School District No. 690, Warroad, for the Angle Inlet School, from the General Fund. * **Windom School District Supplemental Aid:** Provides $1 million in onetime supplemental aid to Independent School District No. 177, Windom, for FY 2024 only, from the General Fund. * **Basic Skills Revenue Account Transfers:** Requires school districts with balances in their basic skills revenue accounts restricted for extended time programs to transfer those funds to an account restricted for basic skills revenue by June 30, 2025. * **Task Force on English Learner Programs:** Establishes a task force to analyze English learner revenue use, consider microcredentials for teacher collaboration, and make recommendations for improving English learner programs. * **Student Attendance Pilot Program:** Establishes a pilot program for specific school districts to develop and implement strategies to improve student attendance, effective for the 2024-2025, 2025-2026, and 2026-2027 school years. * **Student Attendance and Truancy Legislative Study Group:** Establishes a legislative study group to examine student attendance and truancy issues and make recommendations. * **Appropriations for Attendance Pilot Program:** Appropriates $4,687,000 for FY 2025 for attendance pilot program aid to specific districts, with $330,000 available for department administration. * **Minnesota Alliance With Youth Grant:** Appropriates $625,000 for FY 2025 for a grant to the Minnesota Alliance With Youth to improve student attendance and academic engagement through the Promise Fellow program. * **Appropriation for Legislative Study Group:** Appropriates $64,000 for FY 2025 for the student attendance and truancy legislative study group. * **Appropriation for English Learner Task Force:** Appropriates $117,000 for FY 2025 for the English learner program task force. * **Statewide Academic Standards:** Modifies requirements for statewide academic standards, including health education. * **Crisis Management Policy:** Requires school boards and charter schools to adopt a crisis management policy that includes cardiac emergency response plans. * **P-TECH Schools:** Amends provisions related to the approval process and grant support for P-TECH schools. * **Minnesota Youth Council Committee:** Modifies the age range for members of the Minnesota Youth Council Committee. * **Emergency Medical Training Grants:** Increases the appropriation for emergency medical training grants to $750,000 for FY 2025 and specifies eligible uses and award priorities. * **Computer Science Educator Training:** Modifies eligible entities and uses of funding for computer science educator training programs. * **Achievement and Integration Aid:** Increases appropriations for achievement and integration aid for FY 2024 and FY 2025. * **Computer Science Education Advancement:** Appropriates $500,000 annually for FY 2024 and FY 2025 for computer science education advancement, with $50,000 transferred to the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board for licensure activities in FY 2025. * **Ethnic Studies School Grants:** Appropriates $700,000 annually for FY 2024 and FY 2025 for ethnic studies school grants. * **Full-Service Community Schools:** Appropriates $7.5 million annually for FY 2024 and FY 2025 for full-service community schools grants. * **Minnesota Council on Economic Education:** Appropriates $200,000 annually for FY 2024 and FY 2025 for grants to the Minnesota Council on Economic Education. * **Nonexclusionary Discipline Grants:** Appropriates $1.75 million annually for FY 2024 and FY 2025 for grants to school districts and charter schools for training on nonexclusionary disciplinary practices. * **P-TECH Schools:** Reduces the appropriation for P-TECH support grants to $0 for FY 2025, with a base of $791,000 for FY 2026 and later. * **Alternative to Publishing:** Allows school districts to publish proceedings on their website instead of in a newspaper if the designated newspaper ceases to exist, with certain conditions and an expiration date of August 1, 2026. * **Health Education Standards:** Requires the commissioner of education to begin rulemaking for statewide health education standards. * **Appropriations for Civic Education and Youth Council:** Appropriates $150,000 for FY 2025 for civic education grants and $375,000 for FY 2025 for the Minnesota Youth Council. * **Appropriation for Rulemaking:** Appropriates $627,000 for FY 2025 for rulemaking and administrative costs related to health education standards. * **Appropriations for P-TECH Schools:** Appropriates $791,000 for FY 2025 for P-TECH implementation grants, with a base of $791,000 for FY 2026 and later. * **Read Act Funding:** Appropriates $35 million for FY 2024 and $4 million for FY 2025 for Read Act literacy aid, and $34.95 million for FY 2024 and $4 million for FY 2025 for Read Act professional development. * **Read Act Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing Working Group:** Establishes a working group to make recommendations on literacy training, screeners, and curriculum for students who cannot fully access sound-based approaches. * **Teacher Compensation for Read Act Training:** Appropriates $31,375,000 for FY 2025 for state aid to school districts, charter schools, and cooperative units to compensate teachers for Read Act training. * **Culturally Responsive Materials:** Appropriates $1 million for FY 2025 for the Department of Education to develop supplemental culturally responsive materials for approved literacy curricula. * **Regional Literacy Network Paraprofessional and Volunteer Training:** Appropriates $375,000 for FY 2025 for regional literacy networks to develop training for paraprofessionals and volunteers. * **CAREI Paraprofessional and Volunteer Training:** Appropriates $375,000 for FY 2025 for CAREI to develop training for paraprofessionals and volunteers. * **Read Act Working Group Appropriation:** Appropriates $100,000 for FY 2025 for the Read Act Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing working group. * **American Indian Education Aid:** Modifies the carry-forward provisions for American Indian education aid. * **Permanent School Fund Supplemental Aid:** Appropriates $40,000 for FY 2025 for supplemental aid to American Indian schools. * **Paraprofessional Training Reimbursement:** Modifies reimbursement for paraprofessional training costs, including a provision for FY 2026 only. * **Alternative Teacher Compensation Aid:** Adjusts the state total limit for alternative teacher compensation aid for FY 2025 and later. * **Revenue Reserved for Alternative Teacher Compensation:** Requires revenue received for alternative teacher compensation to be reserved and used only for authorized programs. * **Grow Your Own Programs:** Amends provisions related to Grow Your Own teacher preparation programs, including eligibility for Tribal contract schools. * **Grants for Programs Serving Secondary Students:** Amends provisions related to grants for programs encouraging secondary students to pursue teaching. * **Grant Procedure Modifications:** Allows modification of Grow Your Own and special education teacher pipeline grants to align with statutory changes. * **Student Teaching Stipend Pilot Program:** Establishes a pilot program to provide stipends to student teachers, effective for the 2024-2025 school year, and appropriates $6,543,000 for FY 2025. * **Teacher and Paraprofessional Compensation Working Group:** Establishes a working group to advise the legislature on strategies for competitive compensation for teachers and paraprofessionals. * **Special Education Apprenticeship Programs:** Appropriates $1,030,000 for FY 2025 for grants to intermediate school districts for special education registered apprenticeship programs. * **Charter School Building Lease Aid:** Increases appropriations for charter school building lease aid for FY 2024 and FY 2025. * **Adult Protection Grant Allocation:** Clarifies that the Reform 2020 adult protection state grant allocation must be consistent with the calendar year 2023 allocation. * **Child Foster Care Licensing:** Clarifies that the responsibility for licensing child foster residence settings remains with the Department of Human Services. * **Coordination of Services for Children with Disabilities:** Requires the commissioner to designate a department leader for coordinating services for children's mental health and children with or at risk of disabilities. * **Repealer:** Repeals a provision related to federal education law implementation reports. * **Campus-Based Employment and Training Program:** Establishes provisions for a campus-based employment and training program for students enrolled in higher education to qualify for SNAP eligibility exemptions. * **Family Asset Account:** Modifies the definition of "household" for family asset accounts to include sharing finances. * **Diaper Distribution Grant Program:** Increases the administrative cost allowance for the diaper distribution grant program to ten percent. * **Transfer of Responsibilities:** Transfers responsibilities for the campus-based employment and training program from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. * **Emergency Shelter Needs Analysis:** Requires the commissioner of human services to contract for a needs analysis and site analysis for emergency shelters serving transgender adults experiencing homelessness. * **Pregnant and Parenting Homeless Youth Study:** Requires the commissioner of human services to contract for a study on pregnant and parenting youth experiencing homelessness. * **Revival and Reenactment:** Revives and reenacts Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256B.051, subdivision 7, effective retroactively from August 1, 2023. * **Repealer:** Repeals a provision related to obsolete subdivisions. * **Child Care Weighted Risk System:** Requires the commissioner to develop and implement a child care weighted risk system for licensing enforcement. * **Child Care Fix-It Ticket:** Modifies provisions related to "fix-it tickets" for child care providers, including an expiration upon implementation of the weighted risk system. * **First Aid and CPR Training:** Modifies requirements for first aid and CPR training for child care providers, including renewal periods and documentation. * **Child Foster Care Training:** Modifies training requirements for child foster care providers, including mental health and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders training. * **Paraprofessional Training:** Modifies training requirements for paraprofessionals, including a reduction in hours and payment for test materials for the 2024-2025 school year only. * **Alternative Teacher Compensation Aid:** Adjusts the state total limit for alternative teacher compensation aid for FY 2025 and later. * **Revenue Reserved for Alternative Teacher Compensation:** Requires revenue received for alternative teacher compensation to be reserved and used only for authorized programs. * **Grow Your Own Programs:** Amends provisions related to Grow Your Own teacher preparation programs, including eligibility for Tribal contract schools. * **Grants for Programs Serving Secondary Students:** Amends provisions related to grants for programs encouraging secondary students to pursue teaching. * **Grant Procedure Modifications:** Allows modification of Grow Your Own and special education teacher pipeline grants to align with statutory changes. * **Student Teaching Stipend Pilot Program:** Establishes a pilot program to provide stipends to student teachers, effective for the 2024-2025 school year, and appropriates $6,543,000 for FY 2025. * **Teacher and Paraprofessional Compensation Working Group:** Establishes a working group to advise the legislature on strategies for competitive compensation for teachers and paraprofessionals. * **Special Education Apprenticeship Programs:** Appropriates $1,030,000 for FY 2025 for grants to intermediate school districts for special education registered apprenticeship programs. * **Child Foster Care Licensing:** Clarifies that the responsibility for licensing child foster residence settings remains with the Department of Human Services. * **Coordination of Services for Children with Disabilities:** Requires the commissioner to designate a department leader for coordinating services for children's mental health and children with or at risk of disabilities. * **Repealer:** Repeals provisions related to obsolete subdivisions and rules. * **Child Maltreatment Reporting Processes:** Requires the commissioner of children, youth, and families to review child maltreatment reporting processes and systems and submit recommendations. * **Child Welfare Workforce System Improvements:** Directs the commissioner of human services to ensure the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System can track financial information, provide access to ombudspersons, generate statewide data reports, and track demographic information. * **Supporting Relative Caregiver Grants:** Authorizes the commissioner of children, youth, and families to award grants to community-based nonprofit organizations to provide supports to relative caregivers. * **Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act:** Makes numerous amendments to provisions related to the Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act, including definitions, notice requirements, placement preferences, and court procedures. * **Appropriations for Human Services:** Adjusts appropriations for various human services programs, including MFIP/DWP, child care assistance, general assistance, Minnesota supplemental aid, housing support, Northstar Care for Children, MinnesotaCare, medical assistance, and behavioral health. * **Appropriations for Children and Families:** Appropriates funds for various children and families programs, including child maltreatment reporting review, pregnant and parenting homeless youth study, emergency shelter needs analysis, child care improvement grants, food bank programs, food shelf programs, emergency services grants, homeless youth cash stipend pilot project, continuum of care grants, capital for emergency food distribution facilities, and family assets for independence. * **Appropriations for Department of Education:** Appropriates funds for summer EBT, and operating adjustments for the Department of Children, Youth, and Families transition. * **Appropriations for Commissioner of Children, Youth, and Families:** Appropriates funds for child maltreatment reporting review, pregnant and parenting homeless youth study, emergency shelter needs analysis, and base level adjustments. * **Appropriations for Supreme Court Council on Child Protection:** Appropriates $1 million for FY 2025 for the establishment and administration of the Supreme Court Council on Child Protection. * **Repealer:** Repeals a provision related to obsolete language.