Relating to capital improvements

ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the University of Minnesota (U of M) board of trustees, the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) board of trustees, the departments of education, natural resources (DNR), and agriculture, the pollution control agency (PCA), the board of water and soil resources (BWSR), the Minnesota zoological garden board, the department of administration, the amateur sports commission, the military affairs adjutant general, the departments of public safety and transportation (DOT), the metropolitan council, the departments of human services, veterans affairs, corrections, and employment and economic development (DEED), the public facilities authority, the housing finance agency (HFA), and to the historical society for various land and building projects, improvements, and acquisitions of a capital nature with certain conditions; authorizing and providing for the sale of state bonds; providing for cancellations and bond sale authorization reductions; providing a bond sale schedule; specifying appropriations to be given effect once

ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUS

Authorizing the commissioner of management and budget (MMB) certain negotiated bond sale authority; expanding state bond reporting requirements and cancellation authority to include bonds supported by a state appropriation; adding the Senate capital investment committee ranking minority members to those receiving capital investment and information technology projects notification; clarifying capital projects criteria priority; extending the Olmstead county Stagecoach and Douglas trails connection appropriation availability; clarifying the existing Minnesota Valley railroad track rehabilitation appropriations to be used for bridge rehabilitation and replacement between Norwood-Young American and Hanley Falls and between Gaylord and Winthrop; extending the Peavey Plaza orchestra hall project bond sale and appropriation; modifying a certain prior Hennepin county grant for the Minnesota African American history museum and cultural center to include land and building acquisition; modifying certain prior appropriations for the Minneapolis veterans home centralized pharmacy and the Austin port authority research and technology center; authorizing a certain prior flood hazard mitigation grant to include stream restoration projects; expanding a prior reforestation appropriation; authorizing a prior veterans affairs appropriation to include expenditure for a tunnel, steam and electrical connections, related infrastructure, and other site work and requiring federal funding sources; authorizing the conveyance of joint powers district #6067, East Metro integration district, Maplewood, known as the Harambee community school, to independent school district #623, Roseville, for operation of a multidistrict integration facility; authorizing the Crosswinds school to be conveyed to the Perpich center for arts education for use as an east metropolitan area integration magnet school; authorizing the conveyance of certain surplus state land to Bayport in Washington county; requiring public entities receiving public money appropriations to ensure facilities construction with American-made steel
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