Education Finance
2025-2026 Regular Session
Report Date: May 2, 2025 2:02:59 AM
| Bill # | Senate Author | Description | Date Received | Hearing Date | Action Taken | Senate Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF42 | Kunesh | Suicide prevention curriculum appropriation | 01/16/2025 | 03/18/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services | |
| SF81 | Rarick | Independent School District No. 99, Esko, American Indian Removal and replacement costs appropriation | 01/16/2025 | 03/18/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF82 | Rarick | Consolidation transition aid increase for school districts provision | 01/16/2025 | 03/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF110 | Champion | Learning with Music grant provision and appropriation | 01/16/2025 | 03/04/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF133 | Weber | Student support personnel aid allowable uses expansion | 01/16/2025 | 01/28/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF173 | Rest | Cursive instruction in elementary school appropriation | 01/16/2025 | |||
| SF193 | Kunesh | American Indian Schools permanent school supplemental aid appropriation | 01/16/2025 | 03/18/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF328 | Putnam | St. Cloud Area School District preschool programs grant appropriation | 01/21/2025 | 03/04/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services | |
| SF349 | Farnsworth | Independent School District #318, Grand Rapids American Indian mascot removal and replacement costs appropriation | 01/21/2025 | 03/18/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF364 | Boldon | Literary interventions grant provision | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF437 | Green | Natural disaster debt service equalization aid program broadening to assist school district with a high percentage of property excluded from the tax rolls | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF448 | Cwodzinski | ParentChild+ program appropriation | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF464 | Utke | Prohibition modification on American Indian mascots | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF474 | Kunesh | Chronic absenteeism reduction personnel aid funding from school districts and charter schools authorization | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF482 | Rasmusson | Short-call substitute teacher pilot program extension | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF504 | Mohamed | Grant authorization to improve students' digital technology skills and support digital learning | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF510 | Mann | Academic Acceleration Pilot Program establishment and appropriation | 01/23/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF523 | Farnsworth | Historic school building preservation grants appropriation | 01/23/2025 | 03/11/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF551 | Putnam | Building Assets, Reducing Risks Center funding provision and appropriation | 01/23/2025 | 03/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF637 | Duckworth | Safe Haven In Every Local District (SHIELD) Act | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF844 | Hauschild | Allowed uses of student support personnel aid modification for school districts and charter schools with declining enrollment | 01/30/2025 | |||
| SF856 | Gustafson | Office of the Inspector General creation and appropriation | 02/24/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services | |
| SF857 | Farnsworth | National Register of Historic Places log-term facilities maintenance revenue and revenue uses for school districts with facilities on the list authorization and appropriation | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF880 | Duckworth | Success incentive aid program funding establishment and appropriation | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF896 | Bahr | Prior active transportation account transfer onetime establishment | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF903 | Rarick | Elementary counseling services inclusion for nonpublic pupils in nonpublic pupil aid | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF949 | Maye Quade | Registered special education apprenticeship programs in intermediate school districts grants appropriation | 02/03/2025 | 02/18/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF993 | Champion | Hospitality education grant appropriation | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1019 | Housley | Transportation sparsity revenue percent modification provision | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1034 | Boldon | Community Engagement Response Team appropriation | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1078 | Housley | Funding increase for pupil transportation | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1086 | Duckworth | General education basic formula allowance increase by an additional three percent per year | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1125 | Clark | Special education and English learner cross subsidy aid modification by the increase in the Consumer Price Index | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1176 | Boldon | P-TECH implementation grants appropriation | 02/10/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1197 | Hauschild | School district seasonal tax base replacement aid establishment | 02/10/2025 | 03/11/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Taxes | |
| SF1198 | Hauschild | Roof projects authorization as part of the long-term facilities maintenance program | 02/10/2025 | 03/11/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1200 | Kunesh | Calculation of charter school general education revenue clarification | 02/10/2025 | |||
| SF1201 | Kunesh | School library aid school district eligibility clarification provision | 02/10/2025 | |||
| SF1202 | Kunesh | School district aid calculation clarification provision and levy limitations upon return of excess tax increment or decertification of a tax increment district | 02/10/2025 | 03/25/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1254 | Pha | School district local optional revenue increase | 02/10/2025 | |||
| SF1275 | Boldon | Extended time revenue linked to increases in the general education basic formula allowance provision and appropriation | 02/13/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1290 | Rarick | Eligible grant expenditures clarification for the aeronautics and commercial over-the-road technical program | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1294 | Coleman | Charter schools local optional revenue aid provision | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1301 | Putnam | Museum and education centers grants appropriations | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1318 | Pha | Allowed uses of long-term facilities maintenance revenue modification to include school safety facility enhancements | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1323 | Gustafson | Mission modification of the Minnesota math corps program | 02/13/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1344 | Boldon | ActivEd Walkabouts program grant appropriation | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1357 | Kunesh | Compensatory Revenue Task Force establishment, Read Act implementation professional development requirements modifications, teacher training funding provision, unemployment aid account increase provision, and appropriations | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1404 | Kunesh | American Indian mascot exemption requirements modification | 03/06/2025 | 03/18/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1426 | Hauschild | Career and technical revenue for school districts increase provision and appropriation | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1457 | Westlin | Cardiac emergency response plans requirement and appropriation | 02/27/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1460 | Maye Quade | School district to reauthorize a capital projects referendum by board action authorization | 02/17/2025 | 03/11/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1461 | Maye Quade | School-age care programs to provide services to certain eligible prekindergarten students authorization | 02/17/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1462 | Kunesh | Grant programs transferal from the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board to the Department of Education | 03/03/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1594 | McEwen | Special education initial aid amount adjustment for Independent School District No.709, Duluth | 02/20/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1608 | Oumou Verbeten | Grant to a nonprofit provision to develop a global competency skills pilot program | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1612 | Oumou Verbeten | School district funding increase | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1670 | Duckworth | Teacher shortage report requirements modification provision | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF1679 | Rarick | School districts cooperation and expense sharing to operate an ice rink authorization provision | 02/20/2025 | 03/25/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1791 | Howe | Public access automated external defibrillator smart monitored cabinets appropriation; Faith's Law | 02/24/2025 | |||
| SF1819 | Coleman | Special education cross subsidy aid increase provision and appropriation | 02/24/2025 | |||
| SF1837 | Abeler | Allowed uses of student support personnel aid clarification | 02/24/2025 | |||
| SF1842 | Boldon | Teacher licensure requirements modifications and professional development on dyslexia requirement provision | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF1843 | Boldon | Minnesota Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs academic assistance programs grant appropriation | 02/24/2025 | |||
| SF1844 | Boldon | Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement Minnesota principals survey grant authorization and appropriation | 02/24/2025 | |||
| SF1871 | Coleman | Robotics programs grants authorization and appropriation | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1954 | Xiong | Kids In Need Foundation appropriation | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF2002 | Clark | Compensatory Revenue Task Force establishment provision, calculating a school's compensatory revenue eligibility on the basis of both direct certification and the application of education benefits provision, compensatory revenue spent at each site under certain conditions modification provision, and appropriation | 02/27/2025 | 03/04/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2007 | Oumou Verbeten | Full-service community schools provisions modifications and appropriation | 02/27/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2019 | Westlin | Award amount of innovative service-learning grants increase | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF2019 | Westlin | Award amount of innovative service-learning grants increase | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF2067 | Cwodzinski | Administration of a nationally recognized college entrance exam authorization | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2118 | Westlin | Economic and financial literacy education grant and teacher development activities provisions and appropriation | 03/03/2025 | |||
| SF2139 | Lucero | School districts offering of career and technical education postsecondary scholarships and postsecondary grants authorization provision | 03/03/2025 | |||
| SF2186 | Gustafson | Minnesota Association of Alternative programs grant appropriation for certain student activities | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2188 | McEwen | Additional school unemployment aid appropriation | 03/06/2025 | 03/19/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2194 | Coleman | Teacher preparation program grant eligibility modification | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2208 | Johnson Stewart | Girl Scouts River Valleys grant appropriation | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2211 | Cwodzinski | Junior Achievement North grant authorization for expansion of its student financial literacy activities | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2239 | Kupec | School districts local optional revenue increase provision and appropriation | 03/06/2025 | 03/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2244 | Kupec | Referendum levy equalizing factors increase provision and appropriation | 03/06/2025 | 03/11/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2245 | Cwodzinski | Minnesota Youth Council grant authorization and appropriation | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2246 | Cwodzinski | Minnesota Alliance With Youth Promise Fellowship program grant authorization and appropriation | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2250 | Maye Quade | Hours of educational instruction modification | 03/24/2025 | 03/25/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2255 | Kunesh | Omnibus E-12 Education appropriations | 03/06/2025 | 04/10/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Taxes | |
| SF2303 | Utke | Independent School District #186, Pequot Lakes PSEO adjustment authorization and appropriation | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2325 | Lucero | General education disparity aid establishment | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2340 | Putnam | Referendum allowances reduction provision, local optional revenue authority increase provision, and appropriation | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2341 | Xiong | Adult basic education aid state total increase and aid limit modifications provisions, commissioner-selected high school equivalency tests costs funding increase provision, and appropriation | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2353 | Maye Quade | Community literacy initiatives grant program establishment and appropriation | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2440 | Hoffman | Grant authorization for truancy crisis response | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2485 | Kunesh | Library online databases funding increase provision and appropriation | 03/13/2025 | 04/02/2025 | ||
| SF2486 | Kunesh | School library aid allowable uses modifications | 03/13/2025 | 04/02/2025 | ||
| SF2502 | Maye Quade | Metro Deaf School appropriation | 03/13/2025 | 03/25/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2555 | Maye Quade | Special education separate sites funding eligibility expansion and appropriation | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2557 | McEwen | Funding increase for the school unemployment aid account in the special revenue fund | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2565 | Cwodzinski | Civic seal designation provision for high school students | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF2576 | Pha | Building lease aid for charter school provision | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2632 | Kunesh | Civic education grants appropriation | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2642 | Cwodzinski | Student attendance marketing campaign appropriation | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2708 | Coleman | Local optional aid for schools increase provision, state-paid free lunches limited to families with incomes at or below 500 percent of the federal poverty level, and appropriation | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2713 | Clark | School board renewal of an expiring referendum requirements clarification provision | 03/20/2025 | 03/25/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2839 | Clark | Unreimbursed special education aid paid by the resident school district to a charter school reduction; state portion of special education aid for unreimbursed charter school expenditures increase; appropriating money | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2840 | Clark | School food waste reduction; free school milk during the lunch meal in place of a full school lunch authorization; appropriating money | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2882 | Cwodzinski | Attendance definition provision, reenrollment of students provisions, and children in need of protective services or educational neglect presumptions modifications | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF2941 | Pratt | Independent School District No. 720, Shakopee, qualification under the long-term facilities maintenance revenue program ad a district eligible for alternative facilities revenue authorization provision | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF2965 | Kunesh | Certain expenditures authorization from the school service fund | 03/24/2025 | 03/26/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF3012 | Putnam | Neighborhood partnership grants appropriation | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3094 | Mann | Safe schools revenue increase | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3128 | Kunesh | Increase Teachers of Color Act modification; pilot scholarship for aspiring teachers of color permanency establishment; appropriating money | 04/01/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Higher Education | |
| SF3158 | Maye Quade | Read Act training appropriation | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3163 | Farnsworth | Board of a consolidated school district renewal of an expiring referendum established pursuant to the consolidation authorization; requirements for school board renewal of an expiring referendum clarification | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3178 | Mohamed | St. Paul Public Schools grant appropriation | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3186 | Maye Quade | Literacy incentive aid program modifications, new literacy aid eligible uses establishment, and appropriation | 04/01/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF3188 | Dornink | General education funding minimum transfer to an area learning center increase appropriation | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3333 | Gustafson | Programs to support teacher candidates performing student teaching authorization and appropriation | 04/07/2025 | |||
| SF3361 | Housley | Mandate relief provision for school districts | 04/09/2025 | |||
| SF3399 | Cwodzinski | School system videos appropriation | 04/22/2025 | |||
| SF3426 | Clark | Grants to schools for law enforcement entry devices; cancelling unused portion of an appropriation; appropriating money | 04/24/2025 | |||
| HF1034 | Rarick | Eligible grant expenditures clarification for the aeronautics and commercial over-the-road technical program | 03/20/2025 | |||
| HF2067 | Cwodzinski | Attendance definition provision, reenrollment of students provisions, and children in need of protective services or educational neglect presumptions modifications | 04/09/2025 |