SF 120

as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 03/26/2021 09:17am

A bill for an act
relating to capital investment; appropriating money for housing for burn victims
and their families during treatment; providing for construction of a skyway;
authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.

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

Section 1. new text begin HENNEPIN COUNTY - FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Appropriation; residential units. new text end

new text begin $3,000,000 is appropriated from the
general fund to the commissioner of employment and economic development for a grant to
Firefighters for Healing to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip residential units
on a floor of a building across the street from the Hennepin County Medical Center to
provide temporary housing for burn victims and their families during treatment at the medical
center. The project includes office space for Firefighters for Healing. The project must make
the building ready for connection to the medical center with a new skyway on the same
floor as the residential units. This appropriation is not available until the commissioner of
management and budget determines that at least $2,000,000 has been committed from
nonstate sources to complete the project.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Appropriation; skyway. new text end

new text begin $2,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
fund to the commissioner of employment and economic development for a grant to Hennepin
County to acquire real property interests, prepare the site, predesign, design, construct,
furnish, and equip a skyway between the Hennepin County Medical Center and the floor
of the building with Firefighters for Healing residential units. This appropriation is not
available until the commissioner of management and budget determines that at least an
equal amount has been committed from nonstate sources to complete the project.
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new text begin Subd. 3. new text end

new text begin Bond sale. new text end

new text begin To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond
proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of
the state in an amount up to $2,000,000 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.
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new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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