Higher Education
2025-2026 Regular Session
Report Date: December 31, 2024 11:10:07 AM
| Bill # | Senate Author | Description | Date Received | Hearing Date | Action Taken | Senate Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF32 | McEwen | Wage credits modification and reimbursement provision; unemployment insurance aid establishment and appropriation | 02/21/2023 | See HF2073, HF2497 | ||
| SF182 | Gruenhagen | Postsecondary institution requirement to notify a school of student withdrawal | 01/11/2023 | See HF2497 | ||
| SF197 | Klein | Education benefit for dependents of disabled veterans establishment | 01/12/2023 | |||
| SF219 | Draheim | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities providing of affordable textbooks for a percentage of courses requirement | 01/12/2023 | |||
| SF227 | Draheim | Loan forgiveness program establishment for mental health professionals | 01/12/2023 | |||
| SF245 | Draheim | State higher education grant program institution requirements modification | 01/12/2023 | |||
| SF249 | Draheim | Higher education loan program interest rate capping establishment | 01/12/2023 | |||
| SF267 | Fateh | Increase Teacher of Color Act in higher education strengthening | 01/12/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF268 | Fateh | Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and universities appropriation to expand low-cost course material options and fund an undergraduate tuition reduction | 01/12/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF269 | Fateh | Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and universities appropriation to fund an undergraduate tuition reduction | 01/12/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF326 | Boldon | Summer academic enrichment program appropriation | 01/17/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF418 | Westlin | Provision for including suicide prevention information on student identification cards | 02/16/2023 | See HF2497 | ||
| SF431 | Oumou Verbeten | Postsecondary student grants income tax subtraction authorization; emergency assistance for postsecondary student program appropriation | 01/19/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF439 | Hoffman | Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority restructure and renaming as the Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority; construction and financing of health care facilities authority authorization; bonding capacity increase | 01/19/2023 | |||
| SF636 | Fateh | Minnesota's Tribal colleges grants appropriation | 01/25/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF655 | Fateh | Inclusive Higher Education Technical Assistance Center and inclusive higher education grant establishment and appropriation | 01/25/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF687 | Putnam | Parameters in the state program modification | 01/25/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF811 | Westrom | Higher education immunizations exemption expansion | 01/26/2023 | |||
| SF909 | Westrom | Teacher shortage loan forgiveness eligibility to include nonpublic schools modification | 01/30/2023 | |||
| SF929 | Lucero | Resident tuition and student aid provisions modification | 01/30/2023 | |||
| SF953 | Lucero | Public postsecondary institutions requirement to keep certain student information private | 01/30/2023 | |||
| SF998 | Xiong | Student loan advocate establishment | 02/16/2023 | See SF2744 | ||
| SF1010 | Fateh | Certain higher education provisions modification | 02/01/2023 | |||
| SF1011 | Fateh | Certain policy changes provision to postsecondary attainment goals, student financial aid, institutional licensure provisions, and institutional grant programs | 02/01/2023 | |||
| SF1045 | Port | Postsecondary institution's mandated sexual harassment and sexual assault policy amendment | 02/01/2023 | See HF4024, HF5247 | ||
| SF1177 | Putnam | Workforce development provisions modifications; Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities appropriation for workforce for development | 02/02/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF1192 | Cwodzinski | Hennepin Community and Technical College asset preservation bond issue and appropriation | 02/02/2023 | |||
| SF1213 | Oumou Verbeten | Public employee definition exclusions modifications | 02/06/2023 | See HF1830 | ||
| SF1215 | Oumou Verbeten | Higher education institutions requirement to provide access to menstrual products at no charge to students; appropriating money | 02/06/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF1269 | Fateh | Addiction medicine graduate medical education fellowship program at Hennepin County Medical Center appropriation | 02/06/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF1275 | Duckworth | FAFSA or state financial aid application high school students completion requirement | 02/06/2023 | |||
| SF1288 | Putnam | Allied health technician scholarship program establishment | 02/06/2023 | |||
| SF1295 | Rarick | Education initiatives appropriation for to support students who are or were in foster care | 02/06/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF1392 | Putnam | Wallin Education Partners grant appropriation to support programs of college admission and graduation for low-income students | 02/08/2023 | |||
| SF1515 | Putnam | Postsecondary student voter registration provisions modification | 02/16/2023 | See HF1830 | ||
| SF1594 | Kupec | Paramedic scholarship program establishment and appropriation | 02/13/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF1695 | Gustafson | Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota request to provide embedded mental health counselors | 02/16/2023 | |||
| SF1702 | Kupec | Grant program establishment for in-need colleges | 02/16/2023 | |||
| SF1709 | Fateh | Board of Regents and Regent Candidate Advisory Council modification | 02/16/2023 | |||
| SF1750 | Putnam | Workforce development scholarships expansion development | 02/16/2023 | |||
| SF1807 | Putnam | CentraCare Health System University of Minnesota Medical School Campus appropriation | 03/16/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF1875 | Pha | College Possible grant to support programs of college admission and graduation for low-income students appropriation | 02/20/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF1986 | Fateh | Minnesota Commitment to Higher Education Act | 02/20/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF2075 | Fateh | Omnibus Higher Education appropriations | 02/27/2023 | |||
| SF2084 | Kupec | Minnesota Independence College and Community grant appropriation for student scholarships and other specified purposes | 02/27/2023 | See HF2073, HF2497 | ||
| SF2155 | Rarick | Teach for America grant appropriation | 02/27/2023 | |||
| SF2217 | Abeler | Minnesota State High School Mathematics League students scholarship program establishment and appropriation | 02/27/2023 | |||
| SF2242 | Putnam | Hunger-Free Campus program modification | 03/01/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF2306 | Putnam | Postsecondary student basic needs working group establishment | 03/01/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF2326 | Hauschild | Funding increase to the University of Minnesota Natural Resources Research Institute | 03/01/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF2390 | Rarick | Higher education grant amounts increase and dual training competency grant program adjustment authorization; appropriating money | 03/02/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF2393 | Murphy | Assigned student responsibility for the state higher education grant program decrease; appropriating money | 03/02/2023 | |||
| SF2548 | Hauschild | Permanent university fund modification for mineral research | 03/06/2023 | |||
| SF2548 | Hauschild | Permanent university fund modification for mineral research | ||||
| SF2603 | Kupec | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities appropriations | 03/06/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF2629 | Fateh | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities mental health services appropriation | 03/06/2023 | |||
| SF2636 | Murphy | University of Minnesota operations and maintenance appropriation | 03/06/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF2840 | Kupec | State employee higher education scholarship establishment and appropriation | 03/13/2023 | |||
| SF2858 | Miller | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities member colleges NextGen project payment prohibition; Minnesota State Colleges and Universities appropriation for NextGen project funding authorization | 03/13/2023 | |||
| SF2859 | Miller | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities appropriation for NextGen reimbursement for member colleges authorization | 03/13/2023 | |||
| SF2964 | Jasinski | Riverland Community College funding provision | 03/16/2023 | |||
| SF2967 | Kupec | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees funding provision | 03/16/2023 | |||
| SF3005 | Champion | Grant appropriation to the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers for a pilot program for black Minnesota undergraduates exploring law school and legal careers | 03/20/2023 | See SF3035 | ||
| SF3097 | Fateh | Minnesota State college placement practices review and appropriation | 03/22/2023 | See HF2073 | ||
| SF3261 | Putnam | Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities requirement to transfer its central office to the campus of a college or university governed by the board | 04/13/2023 | |||
| SF3349 | Seeberger | Institutional grant program for realtime stenographic writer training establishment and appropriation | 05/19/2023 | |||
| SF3364 | Hoffman | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research and caregiver support programs grant appropriation | 03/04/2024 | See SF5335, HF4024, HF5247 | ||
| SF3585 | Oumou Verbeten | Certain higher education state grant provision modifications | 02/15/2024 | |||
| SF3616 | Mitchell | Postsecondary institutions permission to request a temporary polling place on the institution's campus | 02/22/2024 | See HF4772 | ||
| SF3667 | Oumou Verbeten | Department of Corrections higher education liaison appropriation; Fresh Start program information outreach requirement | 02/15/2024 | See HF5216 | ||
| SF3804 | Kupec | Per-credit cost of tuition removal for student teachers | 02/19/2024 | |||
| SF3806 | Kupec | Matching funds provision to institutions for childcare programs | 02/19/2024 | |||
| SF3945 | Putnam | Higher education previous appropriations modifications | 02/19/2024 | |||
| SF3966 | Mann | Maximum stipend reward for underrepresented student teacher grants increase; appropriating money | 02/19/2024 | |||
| SF4003 | Fateh | Omnibus Higher Education policy bill | 02/20/2024 | |||
| SF4041 | Hoffman | Home care worker education grants and loan forgiveness establishment and appropriations | 02/22/2024 | |||
| SF4107 | Kunesh | Increase Teachers of Color Act modification; aspiring teachers of color pilot scholarship program permanency establishment; special revenue fund establishment; appropriating money | 03/13/2024 | See HF5237 | ||
| SF4226 | Putnam | Workforce development scholarships program eligibility expansion provision | 02/26/2024 | See HF4024, HF5247 | ||
| SF4269 | Oumou Verbeten | Postsecondary education institutions incarcerated and postprison persons provisions modifications | 02/26/2024 | See HF4024, HF5247, HF5216 | ||
| SF4269 | Oumou Verbeten | Postsecondary education institutions incarcerated and postprison persons provisions modifications | 04/02/2024 | See HF4024, HF5247, HF5216 | ||
| SF4340 | Kupec | Requirements enforcement related to higher education institution contracts with online program management companies | 02/29/2024 | See HF4024, HF5247 | ||
| SF4400 | Oumou Verbeten | Legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibition | 02/29/2024 | |||
| SF4402 | Putnam | SNAP eligibility for students enrolled in higher education modification | 03/14/2024 | |||
| SF4416 | Putnam | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities faculty academic freedom protections establishment; artificial intelligence working group establishment | 02/29/2024 | |||
| SF4503 | Rarick | North Star Promise provisions modifications | 03/04/2024 | |||
| SF4525 | Fateh | Minnesota Respond, Innovate, Succeed and Empower (RISE) Act establishment | 03/04/2024 | See HF4024, HF5247 | ||
| SF4597 | McEwen | Public employee definition modification; University of Minnesota employees bargaining units modification | 03/04/2024 | See HF5247 | ||
| SF4635 | Kupec | Peace officer skills training tuition removal | 03/07/2024 | |||
| SF4667 | Fateh | Office of Higher Education requirement to develop a standardized financial aid letter | 03/07/2024 | |||
| SF4668 | Fateh | Promise equalization scholarship program establishment to supplement state grant awards for students attending Minnesota private nonprofit postsecondary institutions | 03/07/2024 | |||
| SF4755 | Hauschild | Cook County Higher Education Board transfer appropriation | 03/07/2024 | |||
| SF4827 | Kunesh | University of Minnesota supplemental funding appropriation | 03/11/2024 | |||
| SF4912 | Wiklund | Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota submission of information to legislature prior to the introduction of a bill appropriating money requirement provision, requiring annual reporting, health professions workforce advisory council recommendations from the commissioner of health requirement, and University of Minnesota academic health system appropriation | 03/13/2024 | See HF5247 | ||
| SF4912 | Wiklund | Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota submission of information to legislature prior to the introduction of a bill appropriating money requirement provision, requiring annual reporting, health professions workforce advisory council recommendations from the commissioner of health requirement, and University of Minnesota academic health system appropriation | 04/02/2024 | See HF5247 | ||
| SF5128 | Oumou Verbeten | Pilot program creation to provide meal stipends to full-time PSEO students | 03/20/2024 | |||
| SF5326 | Fateh | Omnibus Higher Education supplemental appropriations | 04/04/2024 | |||
| SF5416 | Rasmusson | Metropolitan State University funding for cyber range services appropriation | 04/11/2024 | |||
| SF5480 | Weber | Public postsecondary institutions maintenance of a supply of opiate antagonists on system campuses requirement | 04/25/2024 | |||
| SF5514 | Coleman | Student organizations endorsing terrorism cancellation requirement provision and removing all financial aid eligibility for students who endorse terrorism | 05/06/2024 |