1st Engrossment - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 03/25/2015 02:31pm
A bill for an act
relating to financing and operation of state government; providing deficiency
funding for disaster assistance; providing local match funds to repair local roads
and bridges; providing funding to protect water and soil resources in a disaster
area; appropriating money.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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$9,635,000 is appropriated in fiscal year 2015 from the general fund to the
commissioner of public safety for transfer to the disaster assistance contingency account
under Minnesota Statutes, section 12.221, subdivision 6. This is a onetime appropriation.
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(a) The commissioner of management and budget must transfer any unexpended
amount of the appropriations under Laws 2011, chapter 113, article 2, section 2, and
Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 7, article 10, section 5, to the disaster assistance
contingency account under Minnesota Statutes, section 12.221, subdivision 6.
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(b) The commissioner of management and budget must cancel $12,865,000 of the
unexpended general fund appropriations in Laws 2012, First Special Session chapter 1,
article 1, sections 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, and Laws 2012, First Special Session chapter 1,
article 2, sections 3 and 4, to the general fund.
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(c) The transfers and cancellations under this section are onetime.
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$3,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of
transportation in fiscal year 2015 to provide the 20 percent local match funding required to
obtain Federal Highway Administration emergency relief funds to repair local roads and
bridges damaged by flooding in June 2014. This is a onetime appropriation.
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$2,476,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Board of Water
and Soil Resources in fiscal year 2015 for projects under Minnesota Statutes, section
12A.05, subdivision 2, in the area designated under Presidential Declaration of Major
Disaster FEMA-4182-DR. Whenever possible and practical, these funds shall either match
or supplant available federal funding.
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(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.28, the appropriations under this section are available until June 30, 2018.
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(b) Funds appropriated under this section must be expended in designated counties
or in a watershed that includes a portion of a designated county.
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(c) The appropriation in this section is onetime.
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Sections 1 to 4 are effective the day following final enactment.
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