1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to local government; expanding the North
1.3 	Suburban Hospital District; authorizing the hospital
1.4 	district to levy taxes and issue bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. TERRITORY OF NORTH SUBURBAN HOSPITAL DISTRICT
1.7 	EXPANDED.
 1.8 	The cities of Andover, Anoka, Columbia Heights, Coon
1.9 	Rapids, Oak Grove, and Ramsey, each a municipal corporation and
1.10 	political subdivision organized and existing under the laws of
1.11 	the state, shall be included in the territory of the North
1.12 	Suburban Hospital District, a local government unit now
1.13 	organized and existing under Minnesota Statutes, sections 447.31
1.14 	to 447.37, in Anoka and Ramsey Counties, upon publication by the
1.15 	hospital board of the North Suburban Hospital District of a
1.16 	notice in the official newspaper of each city; provided,
1.17 	however, that the North Suburban Hospital District has no
1.18 	outstanding general obligation bonds or voted general obligation
1.19 	bonds not yet issued at the time of the publication, and further
1.20 	provided that the voters of any city may elect not to join the
1.21 	territory of the North Suburban Hospital District pursuant to an
1.22 	election as set forth in section 2.

1.23 	Sec. 2. VOTER REFERENDUM.
 1.24 	A petition for referendum on the inclusion of a city in the
1.25 	territory of the North Suburban Hospital District may be filed
2.1 	with the governing body of a city within 40 days of the
2.2 	publication of the notice prescribed in section 1.  A petition
2.3 	for referendum must be signed by at least five percent of the
2.4 	number of voters voting in the last election of officers of the
2.5 	governing body of the city.  If a petition is filed, the
2.6 	governing body of the city shall call a special election on the
2.7 	question to be held within 30 days after the filing of the
2.8 	petition or may place the question on the ballot at a regular
2.9 	municipal election that is to be held within 30 days after the
2.10 	filing of the petition.  The city shall not be included in the
2.11 	territory of the North Suburban Hospital District until approved
2.12 	by a majority of voters voting on the question at a special
2.13 	election or regular municipal election.

2.14 	Sec. 3. NEW OFFICERS AND ELECTIONS.
 2.15 	The governing body of each city included in the territory
2.16 	of the North Suburban Hospital District pursuant to this act
2.17 	shall by resolution appoint a member to the hospital board.  The
2.18 	member shall hold office until the first Monday in January after
2.19 	the next regular hospital district election.  At the election, a
2.20 	successor must be elected for a term of either two or four
2.21 	years, to be set by the hospital board, so that the number of
2.22 	members of the hospital board whose terms expire in any later
2.23 	year will not exceed one-half of the members plus one.

2.24 	Sec. 4. EXPENDITURES ON HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES
2.25 	WITHIN DISTRICT.
 2.26 	The North Suburban Hospital District shall have the
2.27 	authority to levy taxes or issue bonds as provided in Minnesota
2.28 	Statutes, sections 447.31 to 447.37, and make a grant from the
2.29 	taxes or bond proceeds to a nonprofit or public corporation
2.30 	owning or operating, or providing financial support to, a
2.31 	community hospital or nursing home in the territory of the
2.32 	hospital district for the purposes of financing specific
2.33 	construction or capital equipment for the hospital or nursing
2.34 	home facility and upon additional terms as the hospital district
2.35 	shall determine.  No ad valorem taxes levied in any year by the
2.36 	hospital district pursuant to this section shall increase over
3.1 	the previous year's tax levy by the hospital district at a rate
3.2 	greater than the rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index
3.3 	for all urban consumers for the Minneapolis-St. Paul
3.4 	metropolitan area prepared by the United States Department of
3.5 	Labor.

3.6 	Sec. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 3.7 	This act is effective upon approval by a resolution adopted
3.8 	by a majority of the members of the hospital board of the North
3.9 	Suburban Hospital District.