1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to capital improvements; appropriating money 
  1.3             for renovation and conversion of the dairy barn on the 
  1.4             St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota; 
  1.5             authorizing the sale of state bonds. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [RENOVATION AND CONVERSION OF DAIRY BARN.] 
  1.8      $2,700,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  1.9   the board of regents of the University of Minnesota to renovate 
  1.10  and convert the historic and vacant dairy barn on the St. Paul 
  1.11  campus to a veterinary medicine and animal science education 
  1.12  center commons. 
  1.13     This appropriation is available provided that the 
  1.14  university has raised $900,000 for the project from private 
  1.15  sources. 
  1.16     Sec. 2.  [BOND SALE.] 
  1.17     To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the 
  1.18  state bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance, on 
  1.19  request of the governor, shall sell and issue bonds of the state 
  1.20  in an amount up to $2,700,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and 
  1.21  with the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 
  1.22  16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article 
  1.23  XI, sections 4 to 7. 
  1.24     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  1.25     This act is effective the day following final enactment.