1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; modifying a 2011 appropriation for a St. Louis 
1.3 	Park noise barrier; amending Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 12, 
1.4 	sections 13, subdivision 8; 23, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 12, section 13, subdivision 8, 
1.7 	is amended to read:

1.8
1.9	Subd. 8.Rail Service Improvement - St. Louis 
Park Noise Barrier
 				700,000
1,500,000
	
1.10 	For a grant to the city of St. Louis Park to 
1.11 	predesign, design, construct, and install noise 
1.12 	mitigation barriers associated with route 
1.13 	changes for freight rail. This appropriation 
1.14 	may be used for acquisition and removal 
1.15 	of the railroad tracks at grade crossing of 
1.16 	Louisiana Avenue and removal of railroad 
1.17 	tracks for the freight switching wye from 
1.18 	Minnehaha Creek to the Canadian Pacific rail 
1.19 	line. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, 
1.20 	section 16A.642, this appropriation is 
1.21 	available until January 1, 2018.

1.22 	Sec. 2. Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 12, section 23, subdivision 1, is 
1.23 	amended to read:
2.1 		Subdivision 1.Bond proceeds fund. To provide the money appropriated in this act 
2.2 	from the bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and 
2.3 	issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $512,140,000 $512,940,000  in the manner, 
2.4 	upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 
2.5 	16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.