1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to capital improvements; authorizing the 
  1.3             issuance of state bonds; appropriating money to 
  1.4             construct a wood yard for the Laurentian Energy 
  1.5             Authority. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.8      $2,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  1.9   the commissioner of employment and economic development for a 
  1.10  grant to the Laurentian Energy Authority to construct a wood 
  1.11  yard for processing and prepping agricultural biomass and 
  1.12  forest-derived biomass wood waste for biomass energy facilities. 
  1.13     Sec. 2.  [BOND SALE.] 
  1.14     To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond 
  1.15  proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue 
  1.16  bonds of the state in an amount up to $2,500,000 in the manner, 
  1.17  upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
  1.18  Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
  1.19  Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. 
  1.20     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  1.21     Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
  1.22  enactment.