1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to taxation; prohibiting the use of tax 
  1.3             increment revenues for a social or recreational 
  1.4             facility; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 
  1.5             469.176, subdivision 4g. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 469.176, 
  1.8   subdivision 4g, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 4g.  [GENERAL GOVERNMENT USE PROHIBITED.] (a) These 
  1.10  revenues shall not be used to circumvent existing levy limit 
  1.11  law.  No revenues derived from tax increment from any district, 
  1.12  whether certified before or after August 1, 1979, shall be used 
  1.13  for the acquisition, construction, renovation, operation, or 
  1.14  maintenance of a building to be used primarily and regularly for 
  1.15  conducting the business of a municipality, county, school 
  1.16  district, or any other local unit of government or the state or 
  1.17  federal government.  For any district certified after June 30, 
  1.18  1999, or in any geographic area added after June 30, 1999, to a 
  1.19  district certified before that date, tax increment revenues must 
  1.20  not be used for the construction or renovation of a commons area 
  1.21  used as a public park, or a facility used for social, 
  1.22  recreational, or conference purposes.  This provision shall not 
  1.23  prohibit the use of revenues derived from tax increments for the 
  1.24  construction or renovation of a parking structure~~, a commons~~ 
  1.25  ~~area used as a public park, or a facility used for social,~~ 
  2.1   ~~recreational, or conference purposes and not primarily for~~ 
  2.2   ~~conducting the business of the municipality~~.  
  2.3      (b) If any publicly owned facility used for social, 
  2.4   recreational, or conference purposes and financed in whole or in 
  2.5   part from revenues derived from a district is operated or 
  2.6   managed by an entity other than the authority, the operating and 
  2.7   management policies of the facility must be approved by the 
  2.8   governing body of the authority. 
  2.9      Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.10     Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.