1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; appropriating money for expanding programming, 
1.3 	operations, and maintenance at the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; BELL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.
 1.6 	$2,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2019 are appropriated from 
1.7 	the general fund to the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota to support expanded 
1.8 	kindergarten through grade 12 experiential learning opportunities, agricultural and natural 
1.9 	resources education, and other programming, operations, and maintenance of the Bell 
1.10 	Museum of Natural History. This is an ongoing appropriation.