1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; authorizing certain cost-efficient projects; including 
1.3 	certain remodeling costs in the long-term facilities maintenance revenue program; 
1.4 	appropriating money.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. LONG-TERM FACILITIES MAINTENANCE REVENUE ADJUSTMENT.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Eligibility. A school board that purchases a nonschool facility and converts 
1.8 	that facility to a school building may document to the commissioner of education, in the 
1.9 	form and manner specified by the commissioner, that the purchase and subsequent remodeling 
1.10 	of the facility is less expensive than constructing a new facility for the same space and is 
1.11 	eligible for an adjustment to its long-term facilities maintenance revenue according to 
1.12 	subdivision 2.
1.13 		Subd. 2.Inclusion in plan and revenue. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.14 	123B.595, or any other law to the contrary, an eligible school district under subdivision 1 
1.15 	may include in its long-term facilities maintenance ten-year plan any heating, ventilation, 
1.16 	and air conditioning projects necessary to improve air handling performance sufficient to 
1.17 	satisfy the requirements for a certificate of occupancy for the space for its intended use as 
1.18 	a school facility. The Department of Education must adjust an eligible school district's 
1.19 	long-term facilities maintenance revenue to include these costs.

1.20 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
1.21 	applies to a nonschool facility purchased on or after January 1, 2019.

2.1 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATIONS; LONG-TERM FACILITIES MAINTENANCE 
2.2 	REVENUE.
 2.3 		Subdivision 1.Department of Education. The sums indicated in this section are 
2.4 	appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Education in the fiscal years 
2.5 	designated.
2.6 		Subd. 2.Long-term facilities maintenance revenue. For additional long-term facilities 
2.7 	aid authorized under section 1:

2.8		$
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2.9		$
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