1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for housing for burn victims 
1.3 	and their families during treatment; providing for construction of a skyway; 
1.4 	authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. HENNEPIN COUNTY - FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation; residential units. $3,000,000 is appropriated from the 
1.8 	general fund to the commissioner of employment and economic development for a grant to 
1.9 	Firefighters for Healing to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip residential units 
1.10 	on a floor of a building across the street from the Hennepin County Medical Center to 
1.11 	provide temporary housing for burn victims and their families during treatment at the medical 
1.12 	center. The project includes office space for Firefighters for Healing. The project must make 
1.13 	the building ready for connection to the medical center with a new skyway on the same 
1.14 	floor as the residential units. This appropriation is not available until the commissioner of 
1.15 	management and budget determines that at least $2,000,000 has been committed from 
1.16 	nonstate sources to complete the project.
1.17 		Subd. 2.Appropriation; skyway. $2,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.18 	fund to the commissioner of employment and economic development for a grant to Hennepin 
1.19 	County to acquire real property interests, prepare the site, predesign, design, construct, 
1.20 	furnish, and equip a skyway between the Hennepin County Medical Center and the floor 
1.21 	of the building with Firefighters for Healing residential units. This appropriation is not 
1.22 	available until the commissioner of management and budget determines that at least an 
1.23 	equal amount has been committed from nonstate sources to complete the project.
2.1 		Subd. 3.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond 
2.2 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of 
2.3 	the state in an amount up to $2,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect 
2.4 	prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
2.5 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

2.6 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.