1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to education; authorizing a planning grant to 
  1.3             create an urban agricultural high school; 
  1.4             appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, 
  1.5             section 41D.02, subdivision 2. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 41D.02, 
  1.8   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 2.  [ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL 
  1.10  EDUCATION.] The council may provide grants for: 
  1.11     (1) planning and establishment costs for elementary and 
  1.12  secondary agriculture education programs; 
  1.13     (2) new instructional and communication technologies; and 
  1.14     (3) curriculum updates. 
  1.15     Sec. 2.  [URBAN AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL.] 
  1.16     Subdivision 1.  [WORKING GROUP ESTABLISHED.] The 
  1.17  commissioner of children, families, and learning, in 
  1.18  collaboration with the Minnesota agriculture education 
  1.19  leadership council, must establish a working group to develop a 
  1.20  proposal for an urban agricultural high school. 
  1.21     Subd. 2.  [GRANT PURPOSES.] The working group is eligible 
  1.22  for a planning grant.  The planning grant may be used for 
  1.23  curriculum design, demographic research, development of 
  1.24  partnerships, site acquisition, market assessment of student 
  1.25  interest, and facility predesign purposes. 
  2.1      Subd. 3.  [REPORT.] The Minnesota agriculture education 
  2.2   leadership council must present a report to the legislature by 
  2.3   January 15, 2000. 
  2.4      Subd. 4.  [STATE BONDS.] Any request for state bonding 
  2.5   proceeds must be submitted by the working group to the 
  2.6   department of children, families, and learning by November 1, 
  2.7   1999. 
  2.8      Sec. 3.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.9      $350,000 is appropriated in fiscal year 2000 from the 
  2.10  general fund to the commissioner of children, families, and 
  2.11  learning for a planning grant for an urban agricultural high 
  2.12  school.  This appropriation is available until June 30, 2001. 
  2.13     Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.14     Sections 1 to 3 are effective July 1, 1999.