1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for the China Friendship 
1.3 	Garden in Phalen-Keller Regional Park; authorizing the sale and issuance of 
1.4 	state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. SAINT PAUL; CHINA FRIENDSHIP GARDEN.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $50,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.8 	fund to the Metropolitan Council for a grant to the city of Saint Paul to predesign 
1.9 	and design the China Friendship Garden in Phalen-Keller Regional Park. The China 
1.10 	Friendship Garden Society shall select the designer for the project, subject to approval by 
1.11 	the city. This appropriation does not require a nonstate contribution.
1.12 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the 
1.13 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
1.14 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $50,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
1.15 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
1.16 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

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