Minnesota Session Laws - 2001, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 55-H.F.No. 1159 
                  An act relating to public finance; funding for 
                  Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare; 
                  transportation and capital improvements; authorizing 
                  spending for public purposes; authorizing spending to 
                  acquire and to better land and buildings and other 
                  improvements of a capital nature; amending earlier 
                  authorizations; authorizing and reauthorizing sale of 
                  state bonds; converting certain capital project 
                  financing from general obligation bonding to general 
                  fund cash; appropriating money; amending Laws 2000, 
                  chapter 479, article 1, section 2, subdivision 11; and 
                  by adding a section; Laws 2000, chapter 492, article 
                  1, section 18, subdivision 1; and section 26, 
                  subdivision 1. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Laws 2000, chapter 479, article 1, section 2, 
        subdivision 11, is amended to read: 
        Subd. 11.  Local Bridge
        Replacement and Rehabilitation                       39,000,000
        To match federal money and to replace 
        or rehabilitate local deficient bridges.
        Political subdivisions may use grants 
        made under this subdivision to 
        construct or reconstruct bridges, 
        including: 
        (1) matching federal aid grants to 
        construct or reconstruct key bridges; 
        (2) paying the costs of preliminary 
        engineering and environmental studies 
        authorized under Minnesota Statutes, 
        section 174.50, subdivision 6a; 
        (3) paying the costs to abandon an 
        existing bridge that is deficient and 
        in need of replacement, but where no 
        replacement will be made; and 
        (4) paying the costs to construct a 
        road or street to facilitate the 
        abandonment of an existing bridge 
        determined by the commissioner to be 
        deficient, if the commissioner 
        determines that construction of the 
        road or street is more economical than 
        replacing the existing bridge. 
        $7,000,000 of the appropriation in this 
        subdivision is from the transportation 
        fund through the sale and issuance of 
        state bonds. 
           Sec. 2.  Laws 2000, chapter 479, article 1, is amended by 
        adding a section to read: 
           Sec. 25.  [TRANSPORTATION FUND.] 
           To provide the money appropriated in this act from the 
        transportation fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and 
        issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $7,000,000 in the 
        manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by 
        Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
        Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.  The 
        proceeds of the bonds, except accrued interest and any premium 
        received on the sale of the bonds, must be credited to a bond 
        proceeds account in the state transportation fund. 
           Sec. 3.  Laws 2000, chapter 492, article 1, section 18, 
        subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
        Subdivision 1.  Gillette Children's
        Hospital Specialty
        Healthcare                         7,000,000 
        To the commissioner of administration 
        for a grant to Ramsey county to design, 
        construct, furnish, and equip the 
        renovation of and an addition to the 
        Gillette Children's Hospital Specialty 
        Healthcare, which until 1974 was a 
        state institution housed in a state 
        building that served the medical needs 
        of crippled children.  This 
        appropriation is not available until 
        the commissioner of finance has 
        determined that at least $7,000,000 has 
        been committed by nonstate sources.  
        Amounts spent since January 1, 1998, by 
        Gillette Children's Specialty Health 
        Care Healthcare to plan, design, and 
        construct this project may be counted 
        as part of the local match.  This 
        appropriation may be used for expenses 
        on the project that have not been 
        counted as part of the local match and 
        that have been incurred after June 1, 
        2000.  This appropriation is from the 
        general fund. 
           Sec. 4.  Laws 2000, chapter 492, article 1, section 26, 
        subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
           Subdivision 1.  [BOND PROCEEDS FUND.] To provide the money 
        appropriated in this act from the bond proceeds fund, the 
        commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state 
        in an amount up to $426,870,000 $419,870,000 in the manner, upon 
        the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, 
        sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, 
        article XI, sections 4 to 7.  
           Sec. 5.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Sections 1 to 4 are effective the day after their final 
        enactment. 
           Presented to the governor April 26, 2001 
           Signed by the governor April 30, 2001, 2:56 p.m.