1.2relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a regional public
1.3television station in 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. REGIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION STATION, BEMIDJI.
1.6    Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $3,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.7fund to the commissioner of administration for a grant to the city of Bemidji to construct,
1.8furnish, and equip a regional public television station in the city of Bemidji. This
1.9appropriation is not available until the commissioner determines that a 25 percent match
1.10has been committed to the project from nonstate sources.
1.11    Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
1.12bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
1.13bonds of the state in an amount up to $3,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
1.14the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
1.15Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
1.16EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.