1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to bioscience and technology; establishing a bioscience business 
1.3 	promotion and marketing program in the Department of Employment and 
1.4 	Economic Development; appropriating money.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. MINNESOTA BIOSCIENCE BUSINESS PROMOTION AND 
1.7 	MARKETING PROGRAM; APPROPRIATIONS.
 1.8 	$1,000,000 in fiscal year 2007, $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2008, and $1,000,000 
1.9 	in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of 
1.10 	employment and economic development to develop and operate a bioscience business 
1.11 	marketing program to market Minneota bioscience businesses and business opportunities 
1.12 	to other states and other countries. The bioscience business marketing program must 
1.13 	emphasize bioscience business location and expansion opportunities in communities 
1.14 	outside of the seven-county metropolitan area as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.15 	473.121, subdivision 2, that have established collaborative plans among two or more 
1.16 	municipal units for bioscience business activities, and that are within 15 miles of a 
1.17 	four-year, baccalaureate degree granting institution or a two-year technical or community 
1.18 	college that offers bioscience curricula. The commissioner must report to the committees 
1.19 	of the senate and house of representatives having jurisdiction over bioscience and 
1.20 	technology issues by February 1 of each year on the expenditures of these funds and the 
1.21 	promotional activities undertaken to market the Minnesota bioscience industry to persons 
1.22 	outside of the state. This is a onetime appropriation and is available until expended.

1.23 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.