Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                        CHAPTER 324-H.F.No. 143 
           An act relating to appropriations; removing certain 
          directions, limits, and provisos on the use of money 
          for certain projects; requiring a long-range plan for 
          the Minneapolis and Hastings veterans homes; requiring 
          relocation of residents; amending Laws 1990, chapter 
          610, article 1, section 9, subdivision 1. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [MINNEAPOLIS AND HASTINGS VETERANS HOMES; 
LONG-RANGE PLAN; RELOCATION OF RESIDENTS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [LONG-RANGE PLAN.] The veterans nursing 
home board shall develop a long-range plan for the Minneapolis 
and Hastings campuses.  The plan must include a physical plant 
assessment of all buildings on the two campuses, a proposal for 
the configuration of nursing and domiciliary beds on each campus 
or on alternative sites, and a determination of how to best meet 
the present and future needs of veterans.  The report shall 
consider cost estimates and systemwide objectives for serving 
veterans.  The board shall report to the legislature by February 
15, 1992.  Until the report is submitted to the legislature, the 
department of health shall not reduce the licensed bed capacity 
for the Minneapolis veterans home during the biennium ending 
June 30, 1993. 
    Subd. 2.  [RELOCATION OF RESIDENTS.] The board shall 
relocate all residents from building 6 on the Minneapolis campus 
by October 1, 1991. 
    Sec. 2.  Laws 1990, chapter 610, article 1, section 9, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
     Subdivision 1.  To the commissioner 
of administration for the purposes specified 
in this section                                       1,750,000
 The appropriations in this section 
represent 35 percent of the estimated 
cost of each project.  
 The Minnesota Veterans Homes Board must 
apply for the federal money needed to 
complete these projects.  The 
commissioner of administration shall 
receive the federal money and make the 
money available to the Veterans Homes 
Board to spend for completion of the 
projects.  Any part of the total 
appropriation in this section may be 
spent for any of the projects in this 
section before the federal money for 
that project is received, provided that 
the project must not be started until 
enough federal or other money has been 
committed to complete it The 
appropriation for a project in this 
section may be transferred to another 
project in this section to cover up to 
100 percent of the cost of the 
project.  If federal money is later 
received for a project to which state 
money was transferred in excess of the 
35 percent state share, the Veterans 
Homes Board, in cooperation with the 
commissioners of administration and 
finance, shall return the state 
appropriation to the project from which 
it was transferred. 
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    This act is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 30, 1991 
    Signed by the governor June 3, 1991, 9:47 a.m.