1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for development of the 
1.3 	Opportunity Center; 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. APPROPRIATION; HEADING HOME HENNEPIN OPPORTUNITY 
1.6 	CENTER.
 1.7 	$2,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner 
1.8 	of human services for a grant to Hennepin County for site acquisition, design, and 
1.9 	development of the Opportunity Center. The Opportunity Center will provide a one-stop 
1.10 	site connecting people experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless to 
1.11 	the continuum of services needed to secure and maintain safe and permanent housing. 
1.12 	Heading Home Hennepin, the Minneapolis/Hennepin County ten-year plan to end 
1.13 	homelessness, calls for opening the Opportunity Center in 2009.

1.14 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.15 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.16 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.17 	$2,500,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.18 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.19 	sections 4 to 7.

1.20 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.21 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.