HF 1763

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to capital improvements; authorizing the 
  1.3             issuance of state bonds; appropriating money for the 
  1.4             Lower Mississippi River CREP program. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.7      $23,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  1.8   the Board of Water and Soil Resources to acquire conservation 
  1.9   easements from landowners on marginal lands to protect soil and 
  1.10  water quality and to support fish and wildlife habitat under 
  1.11  Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.515. 
  1.12     Sec. 2.  [BOND SALE.] 
  1.13     To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond 
  1.14  proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue 
  1.15  bonds of the state in an amount up to $23,000,000 in the manner, 
  1.16  upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
  1.17  Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
  1.18  Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. 
  1.19     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  1.20     Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
  1.21  enactment.