1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to capital improvements; appropriating money 
  1.3             for capital aspects of child care and early childhood 
  1.4             education; authorizing state bonds; amending Minnesota 
  1.5             Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 268.917. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 
  1.8   268.917, is amended to read: 
  1.9      268.917 [EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING AND CHILD PROTECTION 
  1.10  FACILITIES.] 
  1.11     The commissioner may make grants to state agencies and 
  1.12  political subdivisions to construct or rehabilitate facilities 
  1.13  for Head Start, early childhood and family education programs, 
  1.14  other early childhood intervention programs, or demonstration 
  1.15  family service centers housing multiagency collaboratives, or 
  1.16  child visitation centers, with priority to centers in counties 
  1.17  or municipalities with the highest number of children living in 
  1.18  poverty.  The commissioner may also make grants to state 
  1.19  agencies and political subdivisions to construct or rehabilitate 
  1.20  facilities for crisis nurseries or child visitation centers.  
  1.21  The facilities must be owned by the state or a political 
  1.22  subdivision, but may be leased under section 16A.695 to 
  1.23  organizations that operate the programs.  The commissioner shall 
  1.24  prescribe the terms and conditions of the leases.  A grant for 
  1.25  an individual facility must not exceed $200,000 for each program 
  2.1   that is housed in the facility, up to a maximum of $500,000 for 
  2.2   a facility that houses three programs or more.  The commissioner 
  2.3   shall give priority to grants that involve collaboration among 
  2.4   sponsors of programs under this section.  At least 25 percent of 
  2.5   the amounts appropriated for these grants must be used in 
  2.6   conjunction with the youth employment and training programs 
  2.7   operated by the commissioner.  Eligible programs must consult 
  2.8   with appropriate labor organizations to deliver education and 
  2.9   training.  State appropriations must be matched on a 50 percent 
  2.10  basis with nonstate funds.  The matching requirement must apply 
  2.11  programwide and not to individual grants. 
  2.12     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.13     $6,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  2.14  the commissioner of children, families, and learning for grants 
  2.15  to state agencies and political subdivisions to construct or 
  2.16  rehabilitate facilities under Minnesota Statutes, section 
  2.17  268.912, or other early childhood programs under Minnesota 
  2.18  Statutes, section 268.917. 
  2.19     Sec. 3.  [BOND SALE.] 
  2.20     To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond 
  2.21  proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance, on request of the 
  2.22  governor, shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount 
  2.23  up to $6,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the 
  2.24  effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 
  2.25  16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 
  2.26  4 to 7. 
  2.27     Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.28     This act is effective the day following final enactment.