Bill Text: MN HF783 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Flood hazard mitigation grant funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-21 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Finance [HF783 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF783-Introduced.html
1.2relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for flood hazard
1.3mitigation grants; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. FLOOD HAZARD MITIGATION GRANTS; APPROPRIATION.
1.6 Subdivision 1. Appropriation. (a) $35,000,000 is appropriated from the bond
1.7proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources for the state share of flood hazard
1.8mitigation grants for publicly owned capital improvements to prevent or alleviate flood
1.9damage under Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.161. Levee projects, to the extent
1.10practical, shall meet the state standard of three feet above the 100-year flood elevation.
1.11(b) Project priorities shall be determined by the commissioner as appropriate and
1.12based on need.
1.13(c) This appropriation includes money for the following county, township, and
1.14municipal projects as prioritized by the commissioner: Ada, Afton, Alvarado, Argyle,
1.15Austin, Borup, Breckenridge, Browntown, Climax, Crookston, Delano, Granite Falls, Inver
1.16Grove Heights, Melrose, Minneota, Minnesota River Area II, Montevideo, Moorhead,
1.17Newport, Nielsville, Oakport Township, Oslo, Roseau, Rushford, St. Vincent, and Shelly.
1.18(d) This appropriation includes money for the following watershed projects: North
1.19Ottawa, Bois de Sioux Watershed District; Quick, Two Rivers Watershed District;
1.20Redpath, Bois de Sioux Watershed District; Roseau Wildlife Management Area, Roseau
1.21River Watershed District; and Shell Rock Watershed District.
1.22(e) For any project listed in this subdivision that the commissioner determines is not
1.23ready to proceed or does not expend all the money allocated to it, the commissioner may
1.24allocate that project's money to a project on the commissioner's priority list.
2.1(f) To the extent that the cost of a project exceeds two percent of the median
2.2household income in a municipality or township multiplied by the number of households
2.3in the municipality or township, this appropriation is also for the local share of the project.
2.4 Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
2.5bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
2.6bonds of the state in an amount up to $35,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
2.7the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
2.8Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
2.9EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3mitigation grants; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. FLOOD HAZARD MITIGATION GRANTS; APPROPRIATION.
1.6 Subdivision 1. Appropriation. (a) $35,000,000 is appropriated from the bond
1.7proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources for the state share of flood hazard
1.8mitigation grants for publicly owned capital improvements to prevent or alleviate flood
1.9damage under Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.161. Levee projects, to the extent
1.10practical, shall meet the state standard of three feet above the 100-year flood elevation.
1.11(b) Project priorities shall be determined by the commissioner as appropriate and
1.12based on need.
1.13(c) This appropriation includes money for the following county, township, and
1.14municipal projects as prioritized by the commissioner: Ada, Afton, Alvarado, Argyle,
1.15Austin, Borup, Breckenridge, Browntown, Climax, Crookston, Delano, Granite Falls, Inver
1.16Grove Heights, Melrose, Minneota, Minnesota River Area II, Montevideo, Moorhead,
1.17Newport, Nielsville, Oakport Township, Oslo, Roseau, Rushford, St. Vincent, and Shelly.
1.18(d) This appropriation includes money for the following watershed projects: North
1.19Ottawa, Bois de Sioux Watershed District; Quick, Two Rivers Watershed District;
1.20Redpath, Bois de Sioux Watershed District; Roseau Wildlife Management Area, Roseau
1.21River Watershed District; and Shell Rock Watershed District.
1.22(e) For any project listed in this subdivision that the commissioner determines is not
1.23ready to proceed or does not expend all the money allocated to it, the commissioner may
1.24allocate that project's money to a project on the commissioner's priority list.
2.1(f) To the extent that the cost of a project exceeds two percent of the median
2.2household income in a municipality or township multiplied by the number of households
2.3in the municipality or township, this appropriation is also for the local share of the project.
2.4 Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
2.5bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
2.6bonds of the state in an amount up to $35,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
2.7the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
2.8Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
2.9EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
