as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am
A bill for an act
relating to capital improvements; authorizing the
issuance of state bonds; appropriating money for the
Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
$20,848,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to
the commissioner of administration to design, construct,
furnish, and equip a new 150-bed high security segregation unit
to improve staff safety and accommodate increased inmate
population, including the remodeling of the discipline and
psychology/psychiatry unit, the demolition of the former health
services building, and the removal of walls dividing Cell Hall
A/West and Cell Hall A/Segregation, all at the Minnesota
Correctional Facility - Stillwater.
To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond
proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue
bonds of the state in an amount up to $20,848,000 in the manner,
upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota
Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final
enactment.