1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for native prairie 
1.3 	conservation and scientific and natural areas acquisition; authorizing the sale 
1.4 	and issuance of state bonds. 
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$15,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of 
1.8 	natural resources as provided in this section:
1.9 	(1) $10,000,000 of this appropriation is to acquire native prairie bank easements 
1.10 	under Minnesota Statutes, section 84.96, and native prairie tracts, and to develop and 
1.11 	restore certain tracts of prairie bank lands for which the easement is permanent; and
1.12 	(2) $5,000,000 of this appropriation is to acquire land for scientific and natural areas 
1.13 	and for protection and improvements of a capital nature to scientific and natural areas 
1.14 	under Minnesota Statutes, sections 84.033 and 86A.05, subdivision 5.

1.15 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.16 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.17 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.18 	$15,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.19 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.20 	sections 4 to 7.

1.21 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.22 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.