HB 4421

Adjunct teachers; qualifications; requirements; prohibiting adjunct teachers from teaching core curriculum subjects to certain grades; waiver; certificate; effective date; emergency.

Securities; Proxy Advisor Transparency Act; effective date.

Schools; Parental Choice Tax Credit Program; increasing the amount of credits authorized.

Revenue and taxation; income tax; income tax credit for qualified economic development expenditures; effective date.

Public health and safety; legislative referendum; Medicaid and Medicaid expansion; requiring certain medical services be made available to certain persons; Health Care Authority duty; ballot title; codification; filing.

Strong Readers Act; references; legislative findings; reading screenings; reading intervention plans; reading deficiencies; mandatory third grade retention; good cause exemptions; request process; intensive reading intervention; acceleration class; reporting requirements; summer academy programs; teacher training requirements; literacy instructional team; revolving fund; donations; emergency.

Child care; modifying certain definitions. Emergency.

Foster care; allowing foster parents to use certain caregivers and arrangements for temporary care of foster children; specifying certain time limit on temporary care. Effective date.

Foster care; directing the Department of Human Services to implement certain extension of foster care services. Effective date. Emergency.

Foster care; requiring the Department of Human Services to provide certain data to resource family partners. Effective date.

Education employees; maternity leave; adoption; purpose; effective date.

Foster care; requiring the Department of Human Services to provide certain items to specified foster children. Effective date. Emergency.

Relating to providing child care generally

An Act relating to the definition of 'victim counseling center' for disclosure of certain communications concerning sexual assault or domestic violence.

Allows the circuit court of St. Louis City to collect a civil case filing fee of an amount not to exceed $20, rather than $15, for certain uses, including the maintenance of a law library

A bill for an act relating to public safety; requiring law enforcement agencies to report certain information in domestic abuse cases; authorizing certain arrests for suspected nonfelony domestic abuse; modifying pretrial release provisions for persons arrested for suspected domestic abuse; requiring reports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 611A.0311, subdivision 1; 629.341, subdivisions 1, 4; 629.72, subdivisions 1a, 2, 6; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 299C.80, subdivision 6; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 626; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 629.72, subdivision 3.

Child Care Provider Licensing & Quality

Children and Youth; pilot program provision for screenings, clinical evaluations, training for autism spectrum disorder to children in foster care; establish