Education Legislation

Schools for Equity in Education

All public school children must have equal access to a high quality education regardless of where they live in Minnesota.

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See all the education-related bills introduced this Legislature. See all education-related bills introduced this session.

Additional Information on Select Education Bills

Education Omnibus Bills
****Check out SEE's side-by-side summary to compare the House, Senate and Governor's proposals****

Governor's Education Finance Bill (Davnie-DFL/SF2347	House Education Finance and Policy HF2400 (Davnie - DFL)	Senate Education Finance and Policy SF7
Budget Target = $718 million	Budget Target = $900 million	Budget Target = $206 million
New Spending Summary* *District Revenue Data Run - General Education, Special Education and Safe Schools District Revenue Data Run* - Voluntary preK and School Readiness Plus Education Fact Sheet* - from the Governor's office House Research Bill Summary** Detailed Budget Recommendations* Bill Text Bill Status	District Revenue Data Run New Spending Summary House Research Bill Summary Bill Text Bill Appropriations Spreadsheet	District Revenue Data Run Bill Text Bill Appropriations

* Indicates the document was revised by the governor to reflect the decrease in funding due to the February forecast.

Equalization Bills
District by District Property Tax Relief - comparison the equalization bills for each district.
*Note: HF2400 - the House education finance and policy omnibus bill contains SF1237 referendum equalization.

Four bills that will lower the taxpayer cost for operating referendum and debt service for building bonds.
SF670 (Chamberlain-R) / HF618 (Runbeck-R) - property tax relief per district for debt service - $30 million per year. The Chair of the Senate Taxes Committee is chief author of this bill.
SF1237 (Nelson-R) - property tax relief per district for referendum and debt service - $63 million per year. The Chair of the Senate E-12 Finance and Policy is chief author on this bill.
HF1142 (Tabke-DFL) for debt service and HF1143 (Huot-DFL) for referendum, property tax relief per district for both - $100 million per year.

Education Policy Omnibus Bills

Governor's Education Policy Bill HF1954 (Youakim-DFL)/SF2216 (Nelson-R)	House Education Policy Bill HF1711 (Youakim-DFL)
House Research Bill Summary Bill Text Bill Status	House Research Summary Bill Text Bill Status

The Senate will include its policy provisions when it releases its finance bill.