Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3295

2E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better
public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with
certain conditions; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money
to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and
replacement (HEAPRA), a new Twin Cities campus science teaching and student
services building, a new St. Paul campus Bell museum of natural history, an
addition to Duluth campus Voss-Kovach hall, Morris campus community services
building renovation, a new Crookston campus maintenance facility at the
Northwest research and outreach center, classroom disability access, laboratory
renovation, specifying a projects costs coverage allotment limit for except
HEAPRA and dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the Minnesota state
colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and
replacement (HEAPRA), the Alexandria technical college law enforcement center,
Anoka Ramsey community college in Coon Rapids classrooms and laboratories and
fine arts classroom and laboratory building, Bemidji state university Sattgast
science building addition and renovation, Century college classroom and student
support space renovation, Dakota county technical college transportation and
emerging technologies labs, Inver Hills community college classroom addition and
renovation, Lake Superior community and technical college health and science
center addition, Mesabi Range community and technical college in Eveleth
carpentry and industrial mechanical technology and shops, Metropolitan state
university smart classroom center and law enforcement training center,
Minneapolis community and technical college workforce program space, Mankato
state university Trafton science center renovation, Moorhead state university
Lommen hall renovation and Livingston Lord library, Worthington west community
and technical college fieldhouse renovation, Moorhead community and technology
college trade addition and library design, Normandale community college
classroom addition and renovation, North Hennepin community college center for
business and technology and science, technology, engineering and math
facilities, Northland community and technical college in East Grand Forks
nursing, health care and learning resources center, Owatonna college and
university center property acquisition, Faribault south central college in
classroom renovation and addition, St. Cloud state university Brown science hall
renovation and science and engineering lab, St. Cloud technical college allied
health center renovation, St. Paul college transportation and applied technology
laboratories and shops, southwest Minnesota state university science and hotel
and restaurant laboratories, Winona state university Memorial hall and for
system wide science laboratory and classroom renovation, property acquisition
and debt service, dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the department
of education for independent school district #11, Anoka-Hennepin land
acquisition, independent school district #38, Red Lake capital loan, independent
school district #279, Osseo Northwest Hennepin family center and library
improvement grants, to the Minnesota state academies for asset preservation and
Frechette, Pollard and Mott memorial halls renovation, to the Perpich center for
arts education for asset preservation, master plan update and predesign, delta
dorm window project and storage building, to the department of natural resources
(DNR) for statewide asset preservation, flood hazard mitigation grants for
various projects, the Red river digital elevation model, ground water monitoring
and observation wells, dam renovation and removal, water control structures,
lake Zumbro restoration, water acquisition, betterment and fishing piers, fish
hatchery improvements, Rim-Wildlife area land acquisition and improvement, RIM
critical habitat match, native prairie conservation and protection, scientific
and natural area acquisition and development, forest land and forest legacy
conservation easements, state forest land reforestation, forest roads and
bridges, state park and recreation area acquisition and development, state trail
acquisition and development, regional trails, Minnesota river regional park in
Ortonville and the wildlife rehabilitation center, dedicating unspent
appropriations to asset preservation, to the pollution control agency (PCA) for
the Albert Lea landfill and closed landfill cleanup revenue bonds, to the board
of water and soil resources (BWSR) for RIM conservation reserve, wetland
replacement due to public road projects, RIM clean energy conservation easements
and lake Titlow watershed improvements, to the Minnesota zoological garden for
capital asset preservation improvements and betterments, to the department of
administration for capital asset preservation and replacement account (CAPRA),
property acquisition, state capitol building restoration and predesign of the
state emergency operations center and department of public safety/department of
corrections building, to the amateur sports commission for the Blaine national
sports center, the Rochester national volleyball center, the Arden Hills metro
north regional sports center, the Moorhead northwestern Minnesota regional
sports center, the St. Paul regional amateur sports facility and the Marshall
southwest regional amateur sports center, to the department of military affairs
for asset preservation, facility life safety improvements, facility Americans
with disabilities (ADA) compliance and dedicating unspent appropriations to
discretionary purposes, to the department of public safety for the Anoka county
forensic crime laboratory, the camp Ripley training and exercising center, the
Gonvick public safety training center, the Minnesota emergency response and
industry training center in Marshall, the Minneapolis emergency operation
center, the Scott county public safety training center and the southeastern
Minnesota regional public safety training center, to the department of
transportation (DOT) for local bridge replacement and rehabilitation, the urban
partnership agreement and for federal grant implementation, greater Minnesota
transit and rail service improvement, port development assistance and the St.
Cloud regional airport, to the metropolitan council for the urban partnership
agreement, Bottineau boulevard transit way, Cedar avenue bus rapid transit,
central corridor transit way, I-94 corridor transit way, I-494 corridor transit
way, Red Rock corridor transit way, Robert street corridor transit way, Rush
line corridor transit way, southwest corridor transit way and union depot, to
the metropolitan regional parks for metropolitan council priorities, Cedar
avenue bridge, Dakota county north urban regional trail, Como zoo gorilla and
polar bear exhibits, Heritage Village park, Grand Rounds bridge, Grand Rounds
roadways, Lower Afton road trail, Minnehaha creek, national great river park,
Rice creek north regional trail, Springbrook nature center and Tamarack nature
center, to the department of human services (DHS) for asset preservation and
safety security, systemwide campus redevelopment, reuse or demolition, early
childhood learning and child protection facilities and a west central
multicounty secured treatment facility, to the commissioner of administration
for veterans homes asset preservation, Fergus falls veterans home, the
Minneapolis veterans home campus for building demolition and HVAC replacement
and a new nursing facility, Silver Bay campus master plan renovation and an all
veterans memorial, to the department of corrections for asset preservation, the
Faribault correctional facility for expansion phase 3 and the Red Wing
correctional facility for a vocational education building, to the department of
employment and economic development (DEED) for a federal grant state match,
upper Sioux community water system, wastewater infrastructure funding program,
total maximum daily load (TMDL) grants, phosphorus reduction grants, small
community wastewater grants, streamlined infrastructure financing, greater
Minnesota business development infrastructure grant program, bioscience business
development public infrastructure grant program, redevelopment account, Bemidji
regional event center, Chisholm sewer and water, Crookston ice arena, Duluth
DECC arena, Itasca county steel plant infrastructure, Mankato theater and hockey
center, Minneapolis orchestra hall, Shubert performing arts and education
center, Rochester Mayo civic center complex, St. Cloud state university national
hockey center, St. Paul Asian Pacific cultural center, Gillette children's
specialty healthcare, Minnesota historical society historic sites asset
preservation, historic Fort Snelling museum and visitor center, county and local
preservation grants, Kelly farm renovation and heritage trails, to the
commissioner of finance for bond sale expenses, requiring the commissioner of
finance to schedule the sale of state general obligation bonds, placing a
restriction on general obligation bond sales during a biennium, authorizing the
sale of state bonds from the bond proceeds fund, maximum effort school loan fund
and the transportation fund bond proceeds account, specifying limits; requiring
department of administration building design guidelines for major renovations by
a certain date and requiring commissioner and department of commerce review;
permitting PCA remediation fund general portion use for debt service payments on
certain revenue bonds, requiring revenue bonds sales money to be deposited in
the remediation fund general portion; requiring the commissioner of finance upon
PCA request to sell and issue state revenue bonds for closed landfill cleanup,
specifying debt service revenue sources, permitting refunding bonds, bonds not
be a general or public debt, permitting trustee and providing for pledge,
purchase, cancellation and impairment of contracts; increasing commissioner of
education early childhood learning and child protection facilities grants
limits, requiring a match and specifying grant priority; designating Owatonna
community college as a MnSCU member and permitting improvements to be declared
as MnSCU surplus, increasing the threshold for project costs requiring
legislative notification, permitting unspent appropriation spending for higher
education asset preservation and replacement and requiring legislative
reporting, increasing the revenue bond limit; establishing and providing for a
university of Minnesota biomedical science research funding program, specifying
conditions for payments to the university, appropriating money from the general
fund to the commissioner of finance for transfer to the board of regents;
authorizing the housing finance agency (HFA) to establish a nonprofit housing
bond account within the housing development fund and providing for nonprofit
housing bonds HFA issuance and authorizing a standing appropriation; decreasing
the wastewater infrastructure funding program appropriation and removing the
Larsmont Knife river-Larsmont sanitary district grant, clarifying current
enacted appropriations; allowing a veterans homes board asset preservation
appropriation to be used for repairs and betterment, extending a current
appropriation to the city of Bayport for the Middle St. Croix river watershed
management organization for sewer system completion, providing construction
grant disbursement for MacPhail music center and requiring the commissioners of
education and finance to agree to a ground lease provision permitting
Minneapolis to purchase the operating lease lessee interest in the state bond
financed property; adding Roseau as an eligible flood hazard mitigation grant
recipient; modifying the Two Harbors harbor of refuge and marina project by
permitting a certain amount of funding for design completion, expanding water
control structures appropriation use for public water reserves; allowing
snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trail grant money to be counted as part
of the county nonstate match requirement; modifying prior appropriations for the
northeast Minnesota rail initiative to be for the heritage and arts center and
passenger rail service for the St. Louis and Lake county regional rail
authority, Dakota county Empire wetlands to be for Vermillion Highlands research
recreation and wildlife management area, the city of Winona for a multipurpose
events center and arena, Fort Snelling to include the visitor center and other
site improvements; exempting the Worthington Campbell soup factory remediation
cleanup effort from certain DEED requirements
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