1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to appropriations; appropriating money for
1.3 	continued, temporary operation of state government.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.
 1.6 	(a) Effective July 1, 2005, and on the first day of each
1.7 	month thereafter, amounts sufficient to continue the operation
1.8 	of state government, as determined by the commissioner of
1.9 	finance, are appropriated from the appropriate fund or account
1.10 	in the state treasury to each unit of state government or other
1.11 	entity that received appropriations from the state for June
1.12 	2005, as a result of money appropriated in Laws 2003, chapter
1.13 	128, and Laws 2003, First Special Session chapters 9, 14, 19,
1.14 	and 21.
1.15 	(b) The amounts appropriated must be sufficient, but not
1.16 	exceed the amounts needed, to continue the operation of
1.17 	government at base level as it existed in the month before the
1.18 	appropriations.  Determination of amounts may be made on a
1.19 	proration of annual appropriations or another reasonable basis.
1.20 	The appropriations must not include appropriations in the acts
1.21 	specified in paragraph (a) that are designated as onetime
1.22 	appropriations or are onetime in nature.  This requirement does
1.23 	not affect standing appropriations that are annually
1.24 	appropriated by statute.
2.1 	(c) This section expires on the effective date of
2.2 	legislation appropriating money for the purposes of the acts
2.3 	described in paragraph (a) as determined by the commissioner of
2.4 	finance.