Bill Text: MN HF1529 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Nonpublic schools that receive state aid, materials, services, or other publicly funded support made subject to requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Authors added Clark, Slocum and Champion [HF1529 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF1529-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to education; making nonpublic schools that receive state aid, materials,
1.3services, or other publicly funded support subject to certain requirements;
1.4proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 123B.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6    Section 1. [123B.475] NONPUBLIC SCHOOL OBLIGATIONS.
1.7Notwithstanding other law to the contrary, a nonpublic school that receives aid,
1.8materials, services, or other publicly funded support under sections 123B.40 to 123B.48,
1.9as a condition of receiving the aid, materials, services, or support must:
1.10(1) provide reasonable accommodations to students, consistent with the requirements
1.11under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Public Law 101-363;
1.12(2) comply with the open meeting law under chapter 13 as if the nonpublic school
1.13were a school district;
1.14(3) adopt a policy to prevent discrimination, harassment, and violence that complies
1.15with section 121A.03 and an anti-intimidation and bullying policy that complies with
1.16section 121A.0695;
1.17(4) annually report on student enrollment and attrition, school finances, governance
1.18and management, staffing, student and faculty demographics, and academic performance
1.19measures, consistent with section 124D.10, subdivision 14;
1.20(5) submit student academic performance data to the commissioner in the form and
1.21manner required by the commissioner so that the commissioner may include the school in
1.22the state's annual school performance report cards under section 120B.36; and
1.23(6) comply with the Pupil Fair Dismissal Act under sections 121A.40 to 121A.575.
1.24EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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