Bill Text: MN HF3228 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Minneapolis; systemwide trail connections funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-03 - Author added Loeffler [HF3228 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2013-HF3228-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital investment; appropriating money for systemwide trail
1.3connections in Minneapolis; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. MINNEAPOLIS; SYSTEMWIDE TRAIL CONNECTIONS.
1.6    Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $9,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.7fund to the Metropolitan Council for a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation
1.8Board to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip a network of public pedestrian
1.9and bicycle trails, walkways, and parkways in the city of Minneapolis. Improvements
1.10shall range from trail connections across geographic barriers to small connections that
1.11maximize existing infrastructure and shall provide safer and more accessible routes.
1.12    Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
1.13bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
1.14bonds of the state in an amount up to $9,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
1.15the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
1.16Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
1.17EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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