Mary K. Kunesh
🏛️ Chair Democrat
SD-039
She was chair beginning 2/3/2025. She was co-chair from 1/14/2025 to 2/3/2025.
Senate committee
Education Finance
Membership recorded during the 94th Legislature.
Committee members
Bills pending in this committee
SF5274
Anonymous threat reporting system grants to schools provision and appropriation
May 16, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF5296
School employee health insurance provision, minimum starting salary for nonlicensed school personnel extension provision, paid orientation, professional development for paraprofessional; appropriation
May 15, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF5279
Operating referendum ballot notice modification
May 11, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3490
Minimum compensation establishment for teachers and certain other school staff
May 5, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF5111
Safe schools revenue increase
April 15, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF5104
Youth Stabilization Program grant appropriation
April 13, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF5025
Independent School District No. 152, Moorhead Area Public Schools authorize certain fund transfers
April 9, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4939
Student mental health grants appropriation
April 9, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2634
Relationship-building and de-escalation training in schools access requirement
April 9, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4985
Students Together Respecting the Importance and Purpose of Education in Schools ISTRIPES) program student mentoring program establishment and appropriation
April 7, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4984
Mindful Foundations pilot program for students in prekindergarten through grade 1 establishment and appropriation
April 7, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4959
State-paid free school lunches limitation to families with incomes at or below 500 percent of the federal poverty guidelines provision, school wellness and resiliency aid establishment, school-linked behavioral health grants expansion provision, and appropriation
April 7, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3983
Anonymous reporting systems requirement provision
April 7, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3625
Educator licensing and standards provisions modifications and appropriation
April 7, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4906
School safety video analytics grant program establishment and appropriation
March 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3361
Mandate relief provision for school districts
March 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4799
Special education teacher pathway program modification to include related services providers
March 25, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4630
Schools requirement to implement a wearable panic alert system
March 25, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1201
Require a report on school district and charter health insurance
March 25, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4694
Continued enrollment authorization for certain online students with a temporary break in residency
March 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4677
Restrictive procedures and seclusion requirements modifications and appropriation
March 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4671
Certain cooperative units facilities grant establishment and appropriation
March 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4669
Teacher retention contract support appropriation
March 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4505
Student support personnel aid increase
March 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4021
Special education aid appropriations contingent reduction repeal
March 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3713
Increase safe schools revenue to school districts
March 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF903
Elementary counseling services inclusion for nonpublic pupils in nonpublic pupil aid
March 18, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3813
Firearm safety, trap shooting, archery, hunting, and angling in school physical education courses grant program establishment and appropriation
March 18, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1310
Ballot language amendment to school district referenda
March 18, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4529
Student support personnel aid allowances provisions modifications ad appropriation
March 17, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4524
Greenhouse equipment upgrades appropriation
March 17, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4500
Lease levy authority restoration for space necessary for graduation ceremonies
March 17, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4423
Length of time to elapse requirement before new education mandate takes effect
March 12, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4414
Operating capital revenue inclusion of utility costs expansion provision
March 12, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4344
Independent School District No. 403, Ivanhoe, fund transfer authorization provision
March 11, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4268
Local optional revenue increase for school districts with limited referendum revenue authority
March 9, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2540
Minnesota Young Readers Club pilot program for literacy support creation
March 9, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1461
School-age care programs to provide services to certain eligible prekindergarten students authorization
March 4, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF42
Suicide prevention curriculum appropriation
March 2, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4038
Fund transfer authorization for Independence School District No. 197, West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan
March 2, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4031
Increase safe schools revenue and expansion of eligible recipients
March 2, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF4022
Fiscal year 2027 compensatory aid calculation modification
March 2, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1842
Teacher licensure requirements modifications and professional development on dyslexia requirement provision
March 2, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3986
2025-2026 school year continued enrollment authorization provision
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3982
Rochester Public Schools school-based mental health program grant appropriation
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3945
Local optional revenue program renaming and funding increase
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3930
Safe schools revenue increase and safe schools aid expansion to charter and nonpublic schools
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3925
Funding increase for school safety and local optional aid for schools; state-paid free school lunches criteria modification
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3909
Contingent reduction repeal in special education aid appropriations
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3908
Continued enrollment authorization for students for the remainder of the 2025-2026 school year
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3878
Scholarship-granting organizations authorization
February 26, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3761
School district eligibility to levy for swimming pool operating costs modification
February 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3747
Public access automated external defibrillator smart monitored cabinets appropriation
February 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1844
Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement Minnesota principals survey grant authorization and appropriation
February 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF986
General education revenue modification to include safe schools aid for charter schools
February 19, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF448
ParentChild+ program appropriation
February 17, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3554
Opportunity Scholarship Program establishment and appropriation
February 17, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2576
Building lease aid for charter school provision
February 17, 2026Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3426
Grants to schools for law enforcement entry devices; cancelling unused portion of an appropriation; appropriating money
April 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3399
School system videos appropriation
April 22, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3333
Programs to support teacher candidates performing student teaching authorization and appropriation
April 9, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
HF2067
Student attendance provisions modified, reporting requirements modified, and notification procedures for student absences and reenrollment modified.
April 9, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3188
General education funding minimum transfer to an area learning center increase appropriation
April 1, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3186
Literacy incentive aid program modifications, new literacy aid eligible uses establishment, and appropriation
April 1, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3178
St. Paul Public Schools grant appropriation
April 1, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3163
Board of a consolidated school district renewal of an expiring referendum established pursuant to the consolidation authorization; requirements for school board renewal of an expiring referendum clarification
April 1, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3158
Read Act training appropriation
April 1, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3094
Safe schools revenue increase
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF3012
Neighborhood partnership grants appropriation
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2882
Attendance definition provision, reenrollment of students provisions, and children in need of protective services or educational neglect presumptions modifications
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2632
Civic education grants appropriation
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2440
Grant authorization for truancy crisis response
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2341
Adult basic education aid state total increase and aid limit modifications provisions, commissioner-selected high school equivalency tests costs funding increase provision, and appropriation
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2250
Hours of educational instruction modification
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2019
Award amount of innovative service-learning grants increase
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1954
Kids In Need Foundation appropriation
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1457
Cardiac emergency response plans requirement and appropriation
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1125
Special education and English learner cross subsidy aid modification by the increase in the Consumer Price Index
March 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF349
Independent School District #318, Grand Rapids American Indian mascot removal and replacement costs appropriation
March 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2965
Certain expenditures authorization from the school service fund
March 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2941
Independent School District No. 720, Shakopee, qualification under the long-term facilities maintenance revenue program ad a district eligible for alternative facilities revenue authorization provision
March 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1670
Teacher shortage report requirements modification provision
March 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1301
Museum and education centers grants appropriations
March 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1198
Roof projects authorization as part of the long-term facilities maintenance program
March 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1019
Transportation sparsity revenue percent modification provision
March 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2840
School food waste reduction; free school milk during the lunch meal in place of a full school lunch authorization; appropriating money
March 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2839
Unreimbursed special education aid paid by the resident school district to a charter school reduction; state portion of special education aid for unreimbursed charter school expenditures increase; appropriating money
March 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2713
School board renewal of an expiring referendum requirements clarification provision
March 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2708
Local optional aid for schools increase provision, state-paid free lunches limited to families with incomes at or below 500 percent of the federal poverty level, and appropriation
March 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2285
Requirement removal for an American Indian Parent Advisory Committee to concur for a district to receive American Indian education aid
March 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
HF1034
Aeronautics and commercial over-the-road technical program eligible grant expenditures clarified.
March 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2642
Student attendance marketing campaign appropriation
March 17, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2557
Funding increase for the school unemployment aid account in the special revenue fund
March 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2555
Special education separate sites funding eligibility expansion and appropriation
March 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2502
Metro Deaf School appropriation
March 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2486
School library aid allowable uses modifications
March 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2485
Library online databases funding increase provision and appropriation
March 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2244
Referendum levy equalizing factors increase provision and appropriation
March 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2067
Administration of a nationally recognized college entrance exam authorization
March 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2353
Community literacy initiatives grant program establishment and appropriation
March 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2340
Referendum allowances reduction provision, local optional revenue authority increase provision, and appropriation
March 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2325
General education disparity aid establishment
March 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2303
Independent School District #186, Pequot Lakes PSEO adjustment authorization and appropriation
March 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2211
Junior Achievement North grant authorization for expansion of its student financial literacy activities
March 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2208
Girl Scouts River Valleys grant appropriation
March 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2246
Minnesota Alliance With Youth Promise Fellowship program grant authorization and appropriation
March 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2245
Minnesota Youth Council grant authorization and appropriation
March 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2239
School districts local optional revenue increase provision and appropriation
March 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2194
Teacher preparation program grant eligibility modification
March 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2188
Additional school unemployment aid appropriation
March 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2186
Minnesota Association of Alternative programs grant appropriation for certain student activities
March 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1404
American Indian mascot exemption requirements modification
March 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2139
School districts offering of career and technical education postsecondary scholarships and postsecondary grants authorization provision
March 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2118
Economic and financial literacy education grant and teacher development activities provisions and appropriation
March 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2007
Full-service community schools provisions modifications and appropriation
March 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1462
Grant programs transferal from the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board to the Department of Education
March 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1294
Charter schools local optional revenue aid provision
March 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF510
Academic Acceleration Pilot Program establishment and appropriation
February 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF2002
Compensatory Revenue Task Force establishment provision, calculating a school's compensatory revenue eligibility on the basis of both direct certification and the application of education benefits provision, compensatory revenue spent at each site under certain conditions modification provision, and appropriation
February 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1871
Robotics programs grants authorization and appropriation
February 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1176
P-TECH implementation grants appropriation
February 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1843
Minnesota Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs academic assistance programs grant appropriation
February 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1837
Allowed uses of student support personnel aid clarification
February 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1819
Special education cross subsidy aid increase provision and appropriation
February 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1791
Public access automated external defibrillator smart monitored cabinets appropriation; Faith's Law
February 24, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1679
School districts cooperation and expense sharing to operate an ice rink authorization provision
February 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1612
School district funding increase
February 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1608
Grant to a nonprofit provision to develop a global competency skills pilot program
February 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1594
Special education initial aid amount adjustment for Independent School District No.709, Duluth
February 20, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1460
School district to reauthorize a capital projects referendum by board action authorization
February 17, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1426
Career and technical revenue for school districts increase provision and appropriation
February 17, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1357
Compensatory Revenue Task Force establishment, Read Act implementation professional development requirements modifications, teacher training funding provision, unemployment aid account increase provision, and appropriations
February 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1344
ActivEd Walkabouts program grant appropriation
February 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1323
Mission modification of the Minnesota math corps program
February 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1318
Allowed uses of long-term facilities maintenance revenue modification to include school safety facility enhancements
February 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1290
Eligible grant expenditures clarification for the aeronautics and commercial over-the-road technical program
February 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1275
Extended time revenue linked to increases in the general education basic formula allowance provision and appropriation
February 13, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1254
School district local optional revenue increase
February 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1202
School district aid calculation clarification provision and levy limitations upon return of excess tax increment or decertification of a tax increment district
February 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1200
Calculation of charter school general education revenue clarification
February 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1086
General education basic formula allowance increase by an additional three percent per year
February 10, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1078
Funding increase for pupil transportation
February 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF1034
Community Engagement Response Team appropriation
February 6, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF949
Registered special education apprenticeship programs in intermediate school districts grants appropriation
February 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF880
Success incentive aid program funding establishment and appropriation
February 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF857
National Register of Historic Places log-term facilities maintenance revenue and revenue uses for school districts with facilities on the list authorization and appropriation
February 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF482
Short-call substitute teacher pilot program extension
February 3, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF844
Allowed uses of student support personnel aid modification for school districts and charter schools with declining enrollment
January 30, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF133
Student support personnel aid allowable uses expansion
January 30, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF637
Safe Haven In Every Local District (SHIELD) Act
January 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF464
Prohibition modification on American Indian mascots
January 27, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF551
Building Assets, Reducing Risks Center funding provision and appropriation
January 23, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF523
Historic school building preservation grants appropriation
January 23, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF504
Grant authorization to improve students' digital technology skills and support digital learning
January 23, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF474
Chronic absenteeism reduction personnel aid funding from school districts and charter schools authorization
January 21, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF437
Natural disaster debt service equalization aid program broadening to assist school district with a high percentage of property excluded from the tax rolls
January 21, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF364
Literary interventions grant provision
January 21, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF82
Consolidation transition aid increase for school districts provision
January 16, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF81
Independent School District No. 99, Esko, American Indian Removal and replacement costs appropriation
January 16, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF193
American Indian Schools permanent school supplemental aid appropriation
January 16, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance
SF110
Learning with Music grant provision and appropriation
January 16, 2025Pending: Senate Education Finance