HF 2842

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 investment; appropriating money 
  1.3             for the Joint Plant Pathology Center at the University 
  1.4             of Minnesota; authorizing the issuance of general 
  1.5             obligation bonds. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION; JOINT PLANT PATHOLOGY CENTER; 
  1.8   DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.] 
  1.9      $245,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the 
  1.10  Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota for the Joint 
  1.11  Plant Pathology Center on the St. Paul campus of the University 
  1.12  of Minnesota.  Of this amount, $85,000 is to complete the 
  1.13  equipping of the existing biological control containment 
  1.14  facility through the purchase and installation of a plant growth 
  1.15  chamber.  The facility is operated jointly by the Minnesota 
  1.16  Department of Agriculture and the university.  Of this amount, 
  1.17  $160,000 to complete the predesign phase to add a plant 
  1.18  pathology wing to the existing biological control containment 
  1.19  facility headhouse.  The expanded facility would share a common 
  1.20  headhouse and other operating infrastructure. 
  1.21     Sec. 2.  [BOND SALE.] 
  1.22     To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the 
  1.23  bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and 
  1.24  issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $245,000 in the 
  1.25  manner, on the terms, and with the effect prescribed by 
  2.1   Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
  2.2   Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. 
  2.3      Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.4      Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
  2.5   enactment.