Bill Text: MN HF2157 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Bemidji; veterans facility establishment funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-12 - Division action, to pass and return to State Government Finance [HF2157 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF2157-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital improvements; appropriating money to establish a veterans
1.3facility in the city of Bemidji; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. CITY OF BEMIDJI VETERANS FACILITY.
1.6    Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $10,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.7fund to the commissioner of veterans affairs to establish a 90-bed geriatric nursing facility
1.8for veterans on the campus of the North County Regional Hospital in the city of Bemidji.
1.9This facility shall be known as the "Northern Minnesota Veterans Home."
1.10    Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond
1.11proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of
1.12the state in an amount up to $10,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect
1.13prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
1.14Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.15    Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
1.16Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.
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