HF 3055

1st Engrossment - 91st Legislature (2019 - 2020) Posted on 03/02/2020 03:35pm

A bill for an act
relating to climate change; appropriating money for assessment of climate change
impacts on state capital funding needs.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON STATE CAPITAL FUNDING
NEEDS; APPROPRIATION.
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new text begin $399,000 in fiscal year 2021 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner
of natural resources, in coordination with other state agencies, to assess the impacts of
climate change, including the increase in heavy precipitation and storm events, on
state-owned assets and to estimate the capital funding needs associated with those impacts.
The commissioner must submit a report with the findings to the chairs and ranking minority
members of the house of representatives and senate committees and divisions with jurisdiction
over capital investment by January 15, 2021. This is a onetime appropriation, and is available
until June 30, 2021.
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