1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to cities; increasing home rule city charter 
  1.3             commission expenses for first class cities; providing 
  1.4             that home rule charter amendment ballots shall be 
  1.5             drafted by the charter commission; clarifying the 
  1.6             number of votes necessary to amend a home rule 
  1.7             charter; amending Minnesota Statutes 1994, sections 
  1.8             410.06; and 410.12, subdivision 4. 
  1.9   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.10     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 410.06, is 
  1.11  amended to read: 
  1.12     410.06 [COMPENSATION; EXPENSES.] 
  1.13     The members of such commission shall receive no 
  1.14  compensation, but the commission may employ an attorney and 
  1.15  other personnel to assist in framing such charter, and any 
  1.16  amendment or revision thereof, and the reasonable compensation 
  1.17  and the cost of printing such charter, or any amendment or 
  1.18  revision thereof, when so directed by the commission, shall be 
  1.19  paid by such city.  The amount of reasonable and necessary 
  1.20  charter commission expenses that shall be so paid by the city 
  1.21  shall not exceed in any one year the sum of $10,000 $20,000 for 
  1.22  a first class city and $1,500 for any other city; but the 
  1.23  council may authorize such additional charter commission 
  1.24  expenses as it deems necessary.  Other statutory and charter 
  1.25  provisions requiring budgeting of, or limiting, expenditures do 
  1.26  not apply to charter commission expenses.  The council may levy 
  1.27  a tax in excess of charter tax limitations to pay such expenses. 
  2.1      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 410.12, 
  2.2   subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
  2.3      Subd. 4.  [ELECTION.] Amendments shall be submitted to the 
  2.4   qualified voters at a general or special election and published 
  2.5   as in the case of the original charter.  The form of the ballot 
  2.6   shall be fixed by the governing body statement of the question 
  2.7   on the ballot shall be drafted by the charter commission, except 
  2.8   that the ballot statement of an amendment proposed by a city 
  2.9   council under subdivision 5 shall be drafted by the city 
  2.10  council.  The ballot statement of the question on the ballot 
  2.11  shall be drafted so as to conform with the substance of the full 
  2.12  text of the amendment and shall be sufficient to identify the 
  2.13  amendment clearly and to distinguish the question from every 
  2.14  other question on the ballot at the same time.  If 51 percent a 
  2.15  majority of the votes cast on any amendment are in favor of its 
  2.16  adoption, copies of the amendment and certificates shall be 
  2.17  filed, as in the case of the original charter and the amendment 
  2.18  shall take effect in 30 days from the date of the election or at 
  2.19  such other time as is fixed in the amendment. 
  2.20     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.21     Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day after final 
  2.22  enactment.