SF 3607

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to state government; establishing provisions for rental rates in
state-owned historic buildings; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 16B.

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

Section 1.

new text begin [16B.242] RENT FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Register of state-owned historic buildings. new text end

new text begin The commissioner of
administration must maintain a register of state-owned buildings that the commissioner
determines have historic or architectural significance. A state-owned building must be
included on this register if the building is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, is designated by a state or county historical society or by a municipal preservation
commission, or if the commissioner otherwise determines that the building has historic or
architectural significance.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Rent attributable to historic characteristics. new text end

new text begin For each state-owned
building on the register maintained under subdivision 1, the commissioner must determine
what portion of the rent established for that building is attributable to the historic or
architectural features of the building. In making this determination, the commissioner
must consider the incremental cost of operating, maintaining, altering, and adding related
new construction to the building due to its historic or architectural features.
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new text begin Subd. 3. new text end

new text begin Report; request for funding. new text end

new text begin By January 15 each odd-numbered year,
the commissioner must report to the commissioner of finance and to the chairs of the
house ways and means and senate finance committees on the projected incremental costs
for each building determined under subdivision 2 for the biennium beginning July 1 of
that year. The detailed budget that the governor submits to the legislature that year must
include the total costs, for all state-owned buildings on the register maintained under this
section, of the rent increment attributable to historic or architectural features.
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new text begin Subd. 4. new text end

new text begin Effect of appropriation. new text end

new text begin Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the
commissioner must exclude from rent charged to state agencies, costs paid for by a
direct legislative appropriation of money made to pay for costs associated with historical
or architectural features of state-owned buildings. The commissioner of finance must
establish procedures to allocate a direct legislative appropriation made for this purpose
to bond and asset preservation accounts.
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