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2nd Engrossment - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to appropriations; reducing an earlier 
  1.3             general fund appropriation; authorizing the sale of 
  1.4             state bonds; appropriating money for grants to 
  1.5             noncommercial television stations and to design and 
  1.6             construct bus garages; amending Laws 2000, chapter 
  1.7             479, article 1, section 3, subdivision 2. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  [DIGITAL TELEVISION CONVERSION APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.10     $7,800,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  1.11  commissioner of administration for grants to noncommercial 
  1.12  television stations to assist with conversion to a digital 
  1.13  broadcast signal as mandated by the federal government.  
  1.14     The grants must be paid within 30 days after the effective 
  1.15  date of this act to the following stations, each of which has 
  1.16  already met the criteria established for grants in Minnesota 
  1.17  Statutes, section 129D.12, subdivision 2, and has certified to 
  1.18  the Federal Communications Commission that it will convert to a 
  1.19  digital broadcast signal: 
  1.20     KAWB-DT Brainerd; 
  1.21     KAWE-DT Bemidji; 
  1.22     KFME-DT Fargo-Moorhead; 
  1.23     KGFE-DT Crookston; 
  1.24     KSMN-DT Chandler; 
  1.25     KSMQ-DT Austin; 
  1.26     KTCA-DT St. Paul; 
  2.1      KTCI-DT St. Paul; 
  2.2      KWCM-DT Appleton; and 
  2.3      WDSE-DT Duluth. 
  2.4      The grants must be paid in equal shares, except that 
  2.5   KFME-DT and KGFE-DT must each be paid a 40 percent share. 
  2.6      When the grantee's digital broadcasting infrastructure is 
  2.7   fully operational, but not before January 1, 2004, the grantee 
  2.8   must make available to the state of Minnesota one of its 
  2.9   standard definition digital channels for a period of five hours 
  2.10  per week for the purposes of broadcasting nonpartisan public 
  2.11  service programming, at a time or times of the commissioner's 
  2.12  choosing, provided that the commissioner must exercise the 
  2.13  discretion reasonably and without undue disruption to or 
  2.14  interference with the regular broadcast program schedule of the 
  2.15  grantee.  The grantee's obligation to broadcast the programming 
  2.16  is subject to applicable state and federal rules and 
  2.17  regulations, including but not limited to, the grantee's 
  2.18  obligations to exercise editorial control, and expires three 
  2.19  years after the commencement of the programming.  
  2.20     Sec. 2.  Laws 2000, chapter 479, article 1, section 3, 
  2.21  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  2.22  Subd. 2.  Bus Garages                      10,000,000 2,200,000
  2.23  To construct bus garages.  This 
  2.24  appropriation is available until spent. 
  2.25     Sec. 3.  [BUS GARAGES.] 
  2.26     $7,800,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  2.27  the metropolitan council to design and construct bus garages. 
  2.28     Sec. 4.  [BOND SALE.] 
  2.29     To provide the money appropriated in section 3 from the 
  2.30  bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and 
  2.31  issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $7,800,000 in the 
  2.32  manner, on the terms, and with the effect prescribed by 
  2.33  Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
  2.34  Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. 
  2.35     Sec. 5.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.36     This act is effective the day following final enactment.