1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; authorizing spending to acquire and better 
1.3 	public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature; 
1.4 	authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds; appropriating money for 
1.5 	central Minnesota science initiative projects. 
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; CENTRAL MINNESOTA BIOSCIENCE 
1.8 	INITIATIVE.
 1.9 	$2,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of 
1.10 	employment and economic development for the purposes in this section.
1.11 	$900,000 is for a grant to the city of St. Cloud to acquire land for and install public 
1.12 	utilities to serve the expansion of the I-94 business park.
1.13 	$100,000 is for a grant to Stearns County to acquire an easement and equipment to 
1.14 	implement methane digester technology.
1.15 	$300,000 is for a grant to the Minnesota Poultry Testing Laboratory in Willmar to 
1.16 	renovate and equip the laboratory to meet testing requirements related to avian influenza 
1.17 	detection.
1.18 	$500,000 is for a grant to the Board of Regents of the Minnesota State Colleges and 
1.19 	Universities to renovate and equip Wick Science Center at St. Cloud State University with 
1.20 	specialized equipment, including a scanning probe microscope, LiCor DNA sequencer, 
1.21 	odyssey system, and a gas-chromatography-mass spectrometer.
1.22 	$200,000 is for a grant to the Board of Regents of the Minnesota State Colleges and 
1.23 	Universities for St. Cloud Technical College to acquire specialized refrigeration units 
1.24 	used in transportation of pharmaceuticals.

2.1 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 2.2 	To provide the money appropriated by section 1, from the bond proceeds fund, 
2.3 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
2.4 	$2,000,000 in the manner, on the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
2.5 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
2.6 	sections 4 to 7.

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