1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to academic health care facilities; designating certain academic health care 
1.3 	facilities as essential to the University of Minnesota's public health mission.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HEALTH CARE FACILITIES.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Land grant medical school and medical facilities. In recognition of 
1.7 	the importance to the state of the University of Minnesota Medical School, a public land 
1.8 	grant entity dedicated to medical education, research, and public service; the constitutional 
1.9 	foundation of the University of Minnesota's land grant mission; and the status of the publicly 
1.10 	supported academic health care facilities licensed by the Department of Health as the M 
1.11 	Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center, those facilities are designated as 
1.12 	University of Minnesota health care facilities. Having been built and supported with 
1.13 	significant state funding and private philanthropic gifts to further the University of 
1.14 	Minnesota's land grant mission of educating, training, and serving the public, it is essential 
1.15 	that those facilities remain dedicated to the University of Minnesota's public health care 
1.16 	mission.
1.17 		Subd. 2.Restrictions on use. The University of Minnesota health care facilities, as 
1.18 	charitable assets devoted to the University of Minnesota's public land grant education and 
1.19 	research missions, may not be controlled, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by an 
1.20 	out of state entity. Consistent with the charitable restrictions on such facilities, the University 
1.21 	of Minnesota health care facilities, or any portion of such facilities, may only be sold by or 
1.22 	transferred to the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. Nothing in this 
1.23 	subdivision shall prevent the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota from disposing 
2.1 	of one or more of the facilities comprising the University of Minnesota health care facilities, 
2.2 	provided that any proceeds from the disposition of such facilities remain dedicated to public 
2.3 	education and research.

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