1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to energy improvements; appropriating money for solar-generated 
1.3 	energy power equipment.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION GRANT FOR SOLAR ENERGY.
 1.6 	Of the money available to Minnesota from the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
1.7 	Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, and allocated to the Department of Commerce for the 
1.8 	state energy program, $2,000,000 is appropriated to the commissioner of commerce for a 
1.9 	grant to a solar panel manufacturing facility that makes key components called thermal 
1.10 	disposition sources and designs photovoltaic material delivery equipment to produce 
1.11 	low-cost solar panels in mass production, provided that the facility retains 85 jobs, and 
1.12 	creates eight research and development jobs, and at least 20 new manufacturing jobs over 
1.13 	a three-year period in Minnesota.
1.14 	This is a onetime appropriation, and is available when the commissioner determines 
1.15 	that an equal match from nonstate resources is available. This appropriation is available 
1.16 	until expended.

1.17 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.18 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.