Bill Text: MN HF1546 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Metropolitan Council funding provided for regional park and open-space land acquisition and improvements, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-01 - Author added Erhardt [HF1546 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2013-HF1546-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital improvements; appropriating money to the Metropolitan
1.3Council for regional park and open-space land acquisition and improvements;
1.4authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6    Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
1.7$10,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the Metropolitan Council
1.8for the cost of improvements and betterments of a capital nature and acquisition by the
1.9council and local government units of regional recreational open-space lands in accordance
1.10with the council's policy plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.147.

1.11    Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
1.12To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, the
1.13commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an
1.14amount up to $10,500,000, in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed
1.15by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution,
1.16article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.17    Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
1.18Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.
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