1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; authorizing issuance of state bonds; 
1.3 	appropriating money to the Metropolitan Council for regional park and 
1.4 	open-space land acquisition and improvements.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$10,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the Metropolitan 
1.8 	Council for the cost of improvements and betterments of a capital nature and acquisition 
1.9 	by the council and local government units of regional recreational open-space lands in 
1.10 	accordance with the council's policy plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.11 	473.147.

1.12 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.13 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.14 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.15 	$10,500,000, in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.16 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.17 	sections 4 to 7.

1.18 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.19 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.