1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; establishing a planning
1.3 	committee for a four-year university at Rochester;
1.4 	appropriating money.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE;
1.7 	UNIVERSITY AT ROCHESTER.
 1.8 	A nine member planning and implementation committee is
1.9 	created for the purpose of establishing a public four-year
1.10 	university in the city of Rochester, Minnesota.  The speaker of
1.11 	the house, the committee on committees in the senate, and the
1.12 	governor shall each appoint three members of the committee by
1.13 	July 1, 2005.  The committee shall report to the legislature and
1.14 	to the governor with a progress report on establishing a
1.15 	four-year university with recommendations for future actions by
1.16 	July 1, 2006.

1.17 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.
 1.18 	$3,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the
1.19 	Higher Education Services Office for fiscal year 2006 for a
1.20 	grant to cover the operating expenses and costs of the planning
1.21 	and implementation committee for the university at Rochester.