1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to appropriations; appropriating money for 
  1.3             pilot projects for the River Bend Rural Advanced 
  1.4             Business Facilitation Program. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.7      $375,000 is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 
  1.8   2003, to the commissioner of trade and economic development for 
  1.9   grants of $125,000 each to the counties of Blue Earth, Martin, 
  1.10  and St. Louis for a pilot project incubated by the county with 
  1.11  the Rural Advanced Business Facilitation Program.  A grant must 
  1.12  be matched with nonstate money for up to the first $50,000 of a 
  1.13  grant.