Coursera has been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so.
More than 40 votes short of those necessary for passage, Republican leaders were forced to pull the conference report on the fiscal 1998-99 State Department authorization bill (HR1757 -- S Rept 105-432) from the House schedule March 13 and postpone action until March 18.
R. 1579, "The Free Trade in Ideas Act" -- a free-standing bill which he succeeded in getting affixed (on an 8-7 vote) to the State Department authorization bill when it was marked up by the House Foreign Affairs International Operations Subcommittee on 26 May 1993.