| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to education; authorizing certain fund transfers for fiscal years 2025, 2026, |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 and 2027; allowing a school board to not comply with certain laws or rules. |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 Section 1. FUND TRANSFERS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2025, 2026, AND 2027. |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 123B.80, subdivision 3, or any law to the |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7contrary, for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027 only, a school district, charter school, or |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8cooperative unit may transfer any funds not already assigned to or encumbered by staff |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9salary and benefits, or otherwise encumbered by federal law, from any operating account |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10or operating fund to the undesignated balance in any other operating account or operating |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11fund. A fund or account transfer under this section must not increase state aid obligations |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12to the district or school, or result in additional property tax authority for the district. The |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13school board must adopt a written resolution outlining the purpose for and specifying the |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14amount of funds that are transferred under this section. A school board must post the |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15resolution for each approved transfer on its website and must transmit a timely, electronic |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16notice of each approved transfer to the commissioner. |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment. |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18 Sec. 2. RELIEF FROM STATE MANDATES FOR SCHOOL YEARS 2024-2025, |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.192025-2026, AND 2026-2027. |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, for the 2024-2025, 2025-2026, and 2026-2027 |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21school years only, a school district or charter school may adopt a resolution not to comply |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22with a state law or rule applicable to that school if the law or rule was enacted, adopted, or |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1Sec. 2. |
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| 24 | 24 | | 25-05490 as introduced04/11/25 REVISOR CR/AD |
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| 25 | 25 | | SENATE |
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| 26 | 26 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 27 | 27 | | S.F. No. 3410NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 28 | 28 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: WESTROM) |
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| 29 | 29 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 30 | 30 | | Introduction and first reading04/22/2025 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Referred to Education Policy 2.1amended after January 1, 2023, including under Laws 2023, chapter 54 or 55, or Laws 2024, |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2.2chapter 109 or 115. Upon a recorded vote, a school board that formally resolves not to |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2.3comply with a state law or rule under this section must post a record of each decision to not |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.4comply on its website and transmit to the commissioner an electronic notice of each decision. |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.5 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2Sec. 2. |
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| 37 | 37 | | 25-05490 as introduced04/11/25 REVISOR CR/AD |
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