1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a trail to connect Itasca 
1.3 	State Park to the Heartland Trail; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. HEARTLAND STATE TRAIL CONNECTION.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $3,800,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund 
1.7 	to the commissioner of natural resources to acquire land for, predesign, design, and construct 
1.8 	a paved, multiple-use trail to connect Itasca State Park to the Heartland State Trail beginning 
1.9 	with Phase 1 from the park contact station to the park's southeast boundary and through a 
1.10 	tunnel to be constructed under marked Trunk Highway 71, and continuing from there about 
1.11 	two miles and, with any remaining funds, a trailhead at or near the proposed trail's southern 
1.12 	junction with the Heartland Trail.
1.13 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond 
1.14 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of 
1.15 	the state in an amount up to $3,800,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect 
1.16 	prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
1.17 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

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