1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money to establish the Northern 
1.3 	Minnesota Veterans Home; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. NORTHERN MINNESOTA VETERANS HOME.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $250,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.7 	fund to the commissioner of veterans affairs for predesign of a 90-bed geriatric nursing 
1.8 	facility for veterans on the campus of the North County Regional Hospital in the city of 
1.9 	Bemidji. This facility shall be known as the "Northern Minnesota Veterans Home."
1.10 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in subdivision 1 from the 
1.11 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
1.12 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $250,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
1.13 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
1.14 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.15 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.16 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.