Bill Text: MN HF363 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Student services personnel team staffing grant established, funding provided, and money appropriated.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-02 - Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Education Finance [HF363 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF363-Engrossed.html
1.2relating to education; establishing a student services personnel team staffing
1.3grant; appropriating money.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. TITLE.
1.6This act may be cited as the "Student Services Personnel Team Assurance Act."
1.7 Sec. 2. STUDENT SERVICES PERSONNEL TEAM STAFFING GRANTS.
1.8 Subdivision 1. Grant program established. A grant program is established to assist
1.9school districts with caseloads above the established and recognized recommendations
1.10or guidelines of the student service personnel professions in licensed school counseling,
1.11school psychology, school nursing, school social work, and chemical dependency
1.12counseling. Grants must be used to create or maintain student service personnel teams
1.13to address the academic, career, personal, social, and early-onset mental health needs of
1.14the students within that district.
1.15 Subd. 2. Definitions. "Student services personnel team" means a licensed school
1.16counselor, school psychologist, school nurse, school social worker, and chemical
1.17dependency counselor licensed by the Board of Teaching to provide such services.
1.18 Subd. 3. Application. The commissioner of education shall develop the form
1.19and method for applying for the grants. The commissioner shall develop criteria for
1.20determining the allocation of the grants. This criteria must include priority funding
1.21directed to school districts in which student service personnel teams either (1) do not exist,
1.22(2) need missing or additional positions of a specific student service personnel team to
1.23complete the team, (3) are not normally funded or reimbursed by other sources, or (4) have
2.1caseloads among specific team members in excess of 50 percent of the established and
2.2recognized recommendations or guidelines of the profession.
2.3 Subd. 4. Grant awards. To qualify for a grant, each student services personnel
2.4team member must serve within the scope and practice of the established and recognized
2.5capacity of their respective professions and as defined by the Board of Teaching. Grants
2.6for the student services personnel team shall be used to lower the caseloads for specific
2.7team member areas in order to more effectively provide direct services to kindergarten
2.8through grade 12 students. Grant funding under this section must be matched by new
2.9funding for the student services personnel team from the school district. The school
2.10district must provide the additional funding for a two-year period or repay the grant to the
2.11Department of Education.
2.12 Subd. 5. Reports. School districts that receive grant funds shall report to the
2.13commissioner of education no later than July 31 of each year regarding the impact of the
2.14student services personnel team on the academic, career, personal, social, and early-onset
2.15mental health needs of the students served by the team during the previous academic year.
2.16The Department of Education shall develop the criteria necessary for the reports.
2.17 Sec. 3. APPROPRIATION.
2.18 Subdivision 1. Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section are
2.19appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education for the fiscal years
2.20designated.
2.21 Subd. 2. Student services grants. For student services personnel team staffing
2.22grants under section 2:
2.25Any balance in the first year does not cancel, but is available in the second year.
1.3grant; appropriating money.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. TITLE.
1.6This act may be cited as the "Student Services Personnel Team Assurance Act."
1.7 Sec. 2. STUDENT SERVICES PERSONNEL TEAM STAFFING GRANTS.
1.8 Subdivision 1. Grant program established. A grant program is established to assist
1.9school districts with caseloads above the established and recognized recommendations
1.10or guidelines of the student service personnel professions in licensed school counseling,
1.11school psychology, school nursing, school social work, and chemical dependency
1.12counseling. Grants must be used to create or maintain student service personnel teams
1.13to address the academic, career, personal, social, and early-onset mental health needs of
1.14the students within that district.
1.15 Subd. 2. Definitions. "Student services personnel team" means a licensed school
1.16counselor, school psychologist, school nurse, school social worker, and chemical
1.17dependency counselor licensed by the Board of Teaching to provide such services.
1.18 Subd. 3. Application. The commissioner of education shall develop the form
1.19and method for applying for the grants. The commissioner shall develop criteria for
1.20determining the allocation of the grants. This criteria must include priority funding
1.21directed to school districts in which student service personnel teams either (1) do not exist,
1.22(2) need missing or additional positions of a specific student service personnel team to
1.23complete the team, (3) are not normally funded or reimbursed by other sources, or (4) have
2.1caseloads among specific team members in excess of 50 percent of the established and
2.2recognized recommendations or guidelines of the profession.
2.3 Subd. 4. Grant awards. To qualify for a grant, each student services personnel
2.4team member must serve within the scope and practice of the established and recognized
2.5capacity of their respective professions and as defined by the Board of Teaching. Grants
2.6for the student services personnel team shall be used to lower the caseloads for specific
2.7team member areas in order to more effectively provide direct services to kindergarten
2.8through grade 12 students. Grant funding under this section must be matched by new
2.9funding for the student services personnel team from the school district. The school
2.10district must provide the additional funding for a two-year period or repay the grant to the
2.11Department of Education.
2.12 Subd. 5. Reports. School districts that receive grant funds shall report to the
2.13commissioner of education no later than July 31 of each year regarding the impact of the
2.14student services personnel team on the academic, career, personal, social, and early-onset
2.15mental health needs of the students served by the team during the previous academic year.
2.16The Department of Education shall develop the criteria necessary for the reports.
2.17 Sec. 3. APPROPRIATION.
2.18 Subdivision 1. Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section are
2.19appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education for the fiscal years
2.20designated.
2.21 Subd. 2. Student services grants. For student services personnel team staffing
2.22grants under section 2:
| 2.23 |
$ |
20,000,000 |
..... |
2014 |
|
| 2.24 |
$ |
20,000,000 |
..... |
2015 |
