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CHAPTER 2--S.F.No. 1

An act

relating to financing and operation of state government; providing deficiency funding for disaster assistance; providing local match funds to repair local roads and bridges; providing funding to protect water and soil resources in a disaster area; appropriating money.

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

Section 1.

new text begin DISASTER CONTINGENCY ACCOUNT; APPROPRIATION. new text end

new text begin $9,635,000 is appropriated in fiscal year 2015 from the general fund to the commissioner of public safety for transfer to the disaster contingency account under Minnesota Statutes, section 12.221, subdivision 6. This is a onetime appropriation. new text end

Sec. 2.

new text begin TRANSFER AND CANCELLATION OF UNEXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS. new text end

new text begin (a) The commissioner of management and budget must transfer any unexpended amount of the appropriations under Laws 2011, chapter 113, article 2, section 2, and Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 7, article 10, section 5, to the disaster assistance contingency account under Minnesota Statutes, section 12.221, subdivision 6. new text end

new text begin (b) The commissioner of management and budget must cancel $12,865,000 of the unexpended general fund appropriations in Laws 2012, First Special Session chapter 1, article 1, sections 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, and Laws 2012, First Special Session chapter 1, article 2, sections 3 and 4, to the general fund. new text end

new text begin (c) The transfers and cancellations under this section are onetime. new text end

Sec. 3.

new text begin DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; APPROPRIATION. new text end

new text begin $3,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of transportation in fiscal year 2015 to provide the 20 percent local match funding required to obtain Federal Highway Administration emergency relief funds to repair local roads and bridges damaged by flooding in June 2014. This is a onetime appropriation. new text end

Sec. 4.

new text begin BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES. new text end

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Erosion, sediment, and water quality control cost-share program; appropriation. new text end

new text begin $2,476,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Board of Water and Soil Resources in fiscal year 2015 for projects under Minnesota Statutes, section 12A.05, subdivision 2, in the area designated under Presidential Declaration of Major Disaster FEMA-4182-DR. Whenever possible and practical, these funds shall either match or supplement available federal funding. new text end

new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Additional provisions. new text end

new text begin (a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.28, the appropriations under this section are available until June 30, 2018. new text end

new text begin (b) Funds appropriated under this section must be expended in designated counties or in a watershed that includes a portion of a designated county. new text end

new text begin (c) The appropriation in this section is onetime. new text end

Sec. 5.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin Sections 1 to 4 are effective the day following final enactment. new text end

Presented to the governor January 27, 2015

Signed by the governor January 27, 2015, 12:16 p.m.

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