Bill Text: MN HF366 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Rushford and Mooselake; schools damaged by flooding replacement funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-28 - Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Capital Investment [HF366 Detail]

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1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital investment; appropriating money for replacement of schools
1.3damaged by flooding in Rushford and Moose Lake; authorizing the sale and
1.4issuance of state bonds.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6    Section 1. FLOOD DAMAGED SCHOOLS.
1.7    Subdivision 1. Appropriation. (a) $40,000,000 is appropriated from the bond
1.8proceeds fund to the commissioner of education.
1.9(b) $20,000,000 is for a grant to Independent School District No. 239,
1.10Rushford-Peterson, to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip a single
1.11prekindergarten through grade 12 school facility in the city of Rushford, to replace school
1.12facilities severely damaged by flooding on August 18 and 19, 2007.
1.13(c) $20,000,000 is for a grant to Independent School District No. 97, Moose Lake,
1.14to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip a single prekindergarten though grade
1.1512 school facility in the city of Moose Lake, to replace school district facilities severely
1.16damaged by flooding on June 21, 2012.
1.17(d) Buildings and land acquired, improved, or constructed with this appropriation
1.18may not be located within a floodplain, as defined in Minnesota Statues, section 103F.111,
1.19subdivision 4.
1.20(e) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.86, or any law to the contrary,
1.21this appropriation does not require a local match.
1.22    Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
1.23bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
1.24bonds of the state in an amount up to $40,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
2.1the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
2.2Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
2.3EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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