1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to local government; including service cooperatives and charter schools 
1.3 	in the definition of governmental units for purposes of joint powers;amending 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 471.59, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 471.59, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subdivision 1.Agreement. (a) Two or more governmental units, by agreement entered 
1.8 	into through action of their governing bodies, may jointly or cooperatively exercise any 
1.9 	power common to the contracting parties or any similar powers, including those which are 
1.10 	the same except for the territorial limits within which they may be exercised. The agreement 
1.11 	may provide for the exercise of such powers by one or more of the participating governmental 
1.12 	units on behalf of the other participating units.
1.13 	(b) The term "governmental unit" as used in this section includes every city, county, 
1.14 	town, school district, service cooperative under section 123A.21, charter school under 
1.15 	chapter 124E, independent nonprofit firefighting corporation, other political subdivision of 
1.16 	this or another state, another state, federally recognized Indian tribe, the University of 
1.17 	Minnesota, the Minnesota Historical Society, nonprofit hospitals licensed under sections 
1.18 	144.50 to 144.56, rehabilitation facilities and extended employment providers that are 
1.19 	certified by the commissioner of employment and economic development, day and supported 
1.20 	employment services licensed under chapter 245D, and any agency of the state of Minnesota 
1.21 	or the United States, and includes any instrumentality of a governmental unit. For the purpose 
1.22 	of this section, an instrumentality of a governmental unit means an instrumentality having 
1.23 	independent policy-making and appropriating authority.