1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to climate change; appropriating money for assessment of climate change 
1.3 	impacts on state capital funding needs.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON STATE CAPITAL FUNDING 
1.6 	NEEDS; APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$399,000 in fiscal year 2021 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.8 	of natural resources, in coordination with other state agencies, to assess the impacts of 
1.9 	climate change, including the increase in heavy precipitation and storm events, on 
1.10 	state-owned assets and to estimate the capital funding needs associated with those impacts. 
1.11 	The commissioner must submit a report with the findings to the chairs and ranking minority 
1.12 	members of the house of representatives and senate committees and divisions with jurisdiction 
1.13 	over capital investment by January 15, 2021. This is a onetime appropriation, and is available 
1.14 	until June 30, 2021.