HF 1787

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 03/03/2025 02:44 p.m.

A bill for an act
relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a trail segment of the
Mesabi Trail; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin MESABI TRAIL.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Appropriation. new text end

new text begin $3,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund
to the commissioner of natural resources for a grant to the St. Louis and Lake Counties
Regional Railroad Authority to predesign, design, engineer, and construct a trail segment
of the Mesabi Trail with a pedestrian bridge to relocate a segment of the Mesabi Trail due
to a permanent closure of County State-Aid Highway 102 in the city of Mountain Iron.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Bond sale. new text end

new text begin To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond
proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of
the state in an amount up to $3,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect
prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
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new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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