1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to stadiums; providing for a new National Football League Stadium 
1.3 	in Minnesota; establishing a Minnesota Stadium Authority; abolishing the 
1.4 	Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission; providing for use of certain local 
1.5 	tax revenue; authorizing electronic pull-tabs and bingo; authorizing the sale and 
1.6 	issuance of state appropriation bonds; appropriating money;amending Minnesota 
1.7 	Statutes 2010, sections 3.971, subdivision 6; 3.9741, by adding a subdivision; 
1.8 	13.55, subdivision 1; 297A.71, by adding subdivisions; 297A.75, as amended; 
1.9 	349.12, subdivisions 3b, 3c, 5, 6a, 12a, 18, 25b, 25c, 25d, 29, 31, 32, by adding 
1.10 	subdivisions; 349.13; 349.151, subdivisions 4b, 4c, by adding a subdivision; 
1.11 	349.161, subdivisions 1, 5; 349.162, subdivision 5; 349.163, subdivisions 1, 5, 
1.12 	6; 349.1635, subdivisions 2, 3, by adding a subdivision; 349.17, subdivisions 
1.13 	6, 7, 8, by adding a subdivision; 349.1721; 349.18, subdivision 1; 349.19, 
1.14 	subdivisions 2, 3, 5, 10; 349.211, subdivision 1a; 352.01, subdivision 2a; 
1.15 	473.121, subdivision 5a; 473.164; 473.565, subdivision 1; Minnesota Statutes 
1.16 	2011 Supplement, sections 10A.01, subdivision 35; 340A.404, subdivision 1; 
1.17 	Laws 1986, chapter 396, sections 4, as amended; 5, as amended; proposing 
1.18 	coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 16A; 297A; proposing 
1.19 	coding for new law as Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473J; repealing Minnesota 
1.20 	Statutes 2010, sections 473.551; 473.552; 473.553, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 
1.21 	7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; 473.556, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 
1.22 	13, 14, 16, 17; 473.561; 473.564, subdivisions 2, 3; 473.572; 473.581; 473.592, 
1.23 	subdivision 1; 473.595; 473.598; 473.599; 473.76.
1.24 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.25 	ARTICLE 1
1.26 	MINNESOTA STADIUM AUTHORITY

1.27 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 3.971, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
1.28 		Subd. 6.Financial audits. The legislative auditor shall audit the financial 
1.29 	statements of the state of Minnesota required by section 16A.50 and, as resources permit, 
1.30 	shall audit Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, the University of Minnesota, state 
1.31 	agencies, departments, boards, commissions, courts, and other state organizations subject 
2.1 	to audit by the legislative auditor, including the State Agricultural Society, Agricultural 
2.2 	Utilization Research Institute, Enterprise Minnesota, Inc., Minnesota Historical 
2.3 	Society, Labor Interpretive Center, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, 
2.4 	Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, Minnesota Stadium Authority, Metropolitan 
2.5 	Airports Commission, and Metropolitan Mosquito Control District. Financial audits 
2.6 	must be conducted according to generally accepted government auditing standards. The 
2.7 	legislative auditor shall see that all provisions of law respecting the appropriate and 
2.8 	economic use of public funds are complied with and may, as part of a financial audit or 
2.9 	separately, investigate allegations of noncompliance.

2.10 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 3.9741, is amended by adding a subdivision 
2.11 	to read:
2.12 		Subd. 4.Minnesota Stadium Authority. Upon the audit of the financial accounts 
2.13 	and affairs of the Minnesota Stadium Authority, the authority is liable to the state for the 
2.14 	total cost and expenses of the audit, including the salaries paid to the examiners while 
2.15 	actually engaged in making the examination. The legislative auditor may bill the authority 
2.16 	either monthly or at the completion of the audit. All collections received for the audits 
2.17 	must be deposited in the general fund.

2.18 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 10A.01, subdivision 35, is 
2.19 	amended to read:
2.20 		Subd. 35.Public official. "Public official" means any:
2.21 	(1) member of the legislature;
2.22 	(2) individual employed by the legislature as secretary of the senate, legislative 
2.23 	auditor, chief clerk of the house of representatives, revisor of statutes, or researcher, 
2.24 	legislative analyst, or attorney in the Office of Senate Counsel and Research or House 
2.25 	Research;
2.26 	(3) constitutional officer in the executive branch and the officer's chief administrative 
2.27 	deputy;
2.28 	(4) solicitor general or deputy, assistant, or special assistant attorney general;
2.29 	(5) commissioner, deputy commissioner, or assistant commissioner of any state 
2.30 	department or agency as listed in section 15.01 or 15.06, or the state chief information 
2.31 	officer;
2.32 	(6) member, chief administrative officer, or deputy chief administrative officer of a 
2.33 	state board or commission that has either the power to adopt, amend, or repeal rules under 
2.34 	chapter 14, or the power to adjudicate contested cases or appeals under chapter 14;
3.1 	(7) individual employed in the executive branch who is authorized to adopt, amend, 
3.2 	or repeal rules under chapter 14 or adjudicate contested cases under chapter 14;
3.3 	(8) executive director of the State Board of Investment;
3.4 	(9) deputy of any official listed in clauses (7) and (8);
3.5 	(10) judge of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals;
3.6 	(11) administrative law judge or compensation judge in the State Office of 
3.7 	Administrative Hearings or unemployment law judge in the Department of Employment 
3.8 	and Economic Development;
3.9 	(12) member, regional administrator, division director, general counsel, or operations 
3.10 	manager of the Metropolitan Council;
3.11 	(13) member or chief administrator of a metropolitan agency;
3.12 	(14) director of the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement in the 
3.13 	Department of Public Safety;
3.14 	(15) member or executive director of the Higher Education Facilities Authority;
3.15 	(16) member of the board of directors or president of Enterprise Minnesota, Inc.;
3.16 	(17) member of the board of directors or executive director of the Minnesota State 
3.17 	High School League;
3.18 	(18) member of the Minnesota Ballpark Authority established in section 473.755;
3.19 	(19) citizen member of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources;
3.20 	(20) manager of a watershed district, or member of a watershed management 
3.21 	organization as defined under section 103B.205, subdivision 13;
3.22 	(21) supervisor of a soil and water conservation district;
3.23 	(22) director of Explore Minnesota Tourism;
3.24 	(23) citizen member of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council established in 
3.25 	section 97A.056; or
3.26 	(24) a citizen member of the Clean Water Council established in section 114D.30.; or
3.27 	(25) member or chief executive of the Minnesota Stadium Authority established 
3.28 	in section 473J.07.

3.29 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 297A.71, is amended by adding a subdivision 
3.30 	to read:
3.31 		Subd. 43.Building materials; football stadium. Materials and supplies used or 
3.32 	consumed in, and equipment incorporated into, the construction or improvement of the 
3.33 	football stadium and stadium infrastructure as defined in section 473J.03, subdivisions 7 
3.34 	and 9, are exempt. This subdivision expires one year after the date that the first National 
3.35 	Football League game is played in the stadium for materials, supplies, and equipment used 
4.1 	in the construction and equipping of the stadium, and five years after the issuance of 
4.2 	the first bonds under article 2 for materials, supplies, and equipment used in the public 
4.3 	infrastructure.

4.4 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

4.5 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 340A.404, subdivision 1, is 
4.6 	amended to read:
4.7 		Subdivision 1.Cities. (a) A city may issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license to 
4.8 	the following establishments located within its jurisdiction:
4.9 	(1) hotels;
4.10 	(2) restaurants;
4.11 	(3) bowling centers;
4.12 	(4) clubs or congressionally chartered veterans organizations with the approval of 
4.13 	the commissioner, provided that the organization has been in existence for at least three 
4.14 	years and liquor sales will only be to members and bona fide guests, except that a club 
4.15 	may permit the general public to participate in a wine tasting conducted at the club under 
4.16 	section 340A.419;
4.17 	(5) sports facilities, restaurants, clubs, or bars located on land owned or leased by 
4.18 	the Minnesota Stadium Authority;
4.19 	(5) (6) sports facilities located on land owned by the Metropolitan Sports 
4.20 	Commission; and
4.21 	(6) (7) exclusive liquor stores.
4.22 	(b) A city may issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license, an on-sale wine license, 
4.23 	or an on-sale malt liquor license to a theater within the city, notwithstanding any law, local 
4.24 	ordinance, or charter provision. A license issued under this paragraph authorizes sales on 
4.25 	all days of the week to persons attending events at the theater.
4.26 	(c) A city may issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license, an on-sale wine license, 
4.27 	or an on-sale malt liquor license to a convention center within the city, notwithstanding 
4.28 	any law, local ordinance, or charter provision. A license issued under this paragraph 
4.29 	authorizes sales on all days of the week to persons attending events at the convention 
4.30 	center. This paragraph does not apply to convention centers located in the seven-county 
4.31 	metropolitan area.
4.32 	(d) A city may issue an on-sale wine license and an on-sale malt liquor license to 
4.33 	a person who is the owner of a summer collegiate league baseball team, or to a person 
4.34 	holding a concessions or management contract with the owner, for beverage sales at a 
4.35 	ballpark or stadium located within the city for the purposes of summer collegiate league 
5.1 	baseball games at the ballpark or stadium, notwithstanding any law, local ordinance, or 
5.2 	charter provision. A license issued under this paragraph authorizes sales on all days of the 
5.3 	week to persons attending baseball games at the ballpark or stadium.

5.4 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 352.01, subdivision 2a, is amended to read:
5.5 		Subd. 2a.Included employees. (a) "State employee" includes:
5.6 	(1) employees of the Minnesota Historical Society;
5.7 	(2) employees of the State Horticultural Society;
5.8 	(3) employees of the Minnesota Crop Improvement Association;
5.9 	(4) employees of the adjutant general whose salaries are paid from federal funds and 
5.10 	who are not covered by any federal civilian employees retirement system;
5.11 	(5) employees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities who are employed 
5.12 	under the university or college activities program;
5.13 	(6) currently contributing employees covered by the system who are temporarily 
5.14 	employed by the legislature during a legislative session or any currently contributing 
5.15 	employee employed for any special service as defined in subdivision 2b, clause (8);
5.16 	(7) employees of the legislature who are appointed without a limit on the duration 
5.17 	of their employment and persons employed or designated by the legislature or by a 
5.18 	legislative committee or commission or other competent authority to conduct a special 
5.19 	inquiry, investigation, examination, or installation;
5.20 	(8) trainees who are employed on a full-time established training program 
5.21 	performing the duties of the classified position for which they will be eligible to receive 
5.22 	immediate appointment at the completion of the training period;
5.23 	(9) employees of the Minnesota Safety Council;
5.24 	(10) any employees who are on authorized leave of absence from the Transit 
5.25 	Operating Division of the former Metropolitan Transit Commission and who are employed 
5.26 	by the labor organization which is the exclusive bargaining agent representing employees 
5.27 	of the Transit Operating Division;
5.28 	(11) employees of the Metropolitan Council, Metropolitan Parks and Open Space 
5.29 	Commission, Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, or Metropolitan Mosquito 
5.30 	Control Commission unless excluded under subdivision 2b or are covered by another 
5.31 	public pension fund or plan under section 473.415, subdivision 3;
5.32 	(12) judges of the Tax Court;
5.33 	(13) personnel who were employed on June 30, 1992, by the University of 
5.34 	Minnesota in the management, operation, or maintenance of its heating plant facilities, 
5.35 	whose employment transfers to an employer assuming operation of the heating plant 
6.1 	facilities, so long as the person is employed at the University of Minnesota heating plant 
6.2 	by that employer or by its successor organization;
6.3 	(14) personnel who are employed as seasonal employees in the classified or 
6.4 	unclassified service;
6.5 	(15) persons who are employed by the Department of Commerce as a peace officer 
6.6 	in the Insurance Fraud Prevention Division under section 45.0135 who have attained the 
6.7 	mandatory retirement age specified in section 43A.34, subdivision 4;
6.8 	(16) employees of the University of Minnesota unless excluded under subdivision 
6.9 	2b, clause (3);
6.10 	(17) employees of the Middle Management Association whose employment began 
6.11 	after July 1, 2007, and to whom section 352.029 does not apply; and
6.12 	(18) employees of the Minnesota Government Engineers Council to whom section 
6.13 	352.029 does not apply.; and
6.14 	(19) employees of the Minnesota Stadium Authority.
6.15 	(b) Employees specified in paragraph (a), clause (13), are included employees under 
6.16 	paragraph (a) if employer and employee contributions are made in a timely manner in the 
6.17 	amounts required by section 352.04. Employee contributions must be deducted from 
6.18 	salary. Employer contributions are the sole obligation of the employer assuming operation 
6.19 	of the University of Minnesota heating plant facilities or any successor organizations to 
6.20 	that employer.

6.21 	Sec. 7. [473J.01] PURPOSE.
6.22 	The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the construction, financing, and 
6.23 	long-term use of a stadium and related stadium infrastructure as a venue for professional 
6.24 	football and a broad range of other civic, community, athletic, educational, cultural, 
6.25 	and commercial activities. The legislature finds and declares that the expenditure of 
6.26 	public money for this purpose is necessary and serves a public purpose, and that property 
6.27 	acquired by the Minnesota Stadium Authority for the construction of the stadium and 
6.28 	related stadium infrastructure is acquired for a public use or public purpose under chapter 
6.29 	117. The legislature further finds and declares that any provision in a lease or use 
6.30 	agreement with a professional football team that requires the team to play all of its home 
6.31 	games in a publicly funded stadium for the duration of the lease or use agreement, with the 
6.32 	occasional exception of a game played elsewhere as set forth in such agreement, serves 
6.33 	a unique public purpose for which the remedies of specific performance and injunctive 
6.34 	relief are essential to its enforcement. The legislature further finds and declares that 
6.35 	government assistance to facilitate the presence of professional football provides to the 
7.1 	state of Minnesota and its citizens highly valued intangible benefits that are virtually 
7.2 	impossible to quantify and, therefore, not recoverable even if the government receives 
7.3 	monetary damages in the event of a team's breach of contract. Minnesota courts are, 
7.4 	therefore, charged with protecting those benefits through the use of specific performance 
7.5 	and injunctive relief as provided in this chapter and in the lease and use agreements.

7.6 	Sec. 8. [473J.03] DEFINITIONS.
7.7 		Subdivision 1.Application.  For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in 
7.8 	this section have the meanings given them, except as otherwise expressly provided or 
7.9 	indicated by the context.
7.10 		Subd. 2.Annual adjustment factor. "Adjustment factor" means for any year 
7.11 	the increase, if any, in the amounts of the city of Minneapolis taxes, imposed under a 
7.12 	special law originally enacted in 1986, that are received by the commissioner of revenue 
7.13 	in the preceding year over the amount received in the year prior to the preceding year, 
7.14 	expressed as a percentage of the amount received in the year prior to the preceding year; 
7.15 	provided, that the adjustment factor for any year must not be less than zero percent nor 
7.16 	more than five percent.
7.17 		Subd. 3.Authority.  "Authority" means the Minnesota Stadium Authority 
7.18 	established under section 473J.07.
7.19 		Subd. 4.City.  "City" means the city of Minneapolis.
7.20 		Subd. 5.NFL. The "NFL" means the National Football League.
7.21 		Subd. 6.NFL team.  "NFL team" means the owner and operator of the NFL 
7.22 	professional football team known, as of the effective date of this chapter, as the Minnesota 
7.23 	Vikings or any team owned and operated by someone who purchases or otherwise takes 
7.24 	ownership or control of or reconstitutes the NFL team known as the Minnesota Vikings.
7.25 		Subd. 7.Stadium. "Stadium" means the stadium suitable for professional football 
7.26 	to be designed, constructed, and financed under this chapter. A stadium must have a roof 
7.27 	that covers the stadium, as set forth in section 473J.11, subdivision 3.
7.28 		Subd. 8.Stadium costs.  "Stadium costs" means the costs of acquiring land, the 
7.29 	costs of stadium infrastructure, and of designing, constructing, equipping, and financing a 
7.30 	stadium suitable for professional football.
7.31 		Subd. 9.Stadium infrastructure. "Stadium infrastructure" means plazas, parking 
7.32 	structures, rights of way, connectors, skyways and tunnels, and other such property, 
7.33 	facilities, and improvements, owned by the authority and determined by the authority to 
7.34 	facilitate the use and development of the stadium.
8.1 		Subd. 10.Stadium site.  "Stadium site" means all or portions of the current site of 
8.2 	the existing football stadium and adjacent areas, bounded generally by Park and Eleventh 
8.3 	Avenues and Third and Sixth Streets in the city of Minneapolis, the definitive boundaries 
8.4 	of which shall be determined by the authority and agreed to by the NFL team.

8.5 	Sec. 9. [473J.07] MINNESOTA STADIUM AUTHORITY.
8.6 		Subdivision 1.Established. The Minnesota Stadium Authority is established as a 
8.7 	public body, corporate and politic, and political subdivision of the state. The authority is 
8.8 	not a joint powers entity or an agency or instrumentality of the city.
8.9 		Subd. 2.Membership. (a) The authority shall consist of five members. 
8.10 	(b) The chair and two members shall be appointed by the governor. One member 
8.11 	appointed by the governor shall serve until December 31 of the third year following 
8.12 	appointment and one member shall serve until December 31 of the fourth year following 
8.13 	appointment. Thereafter, members appointed by the governor shall serve four-year terms, 
8.14 	beginning January 1. Each member serves until a successor is appointed and takes office. 
8.15 	The chair serves at the pleasure of the governor.
8.16 	(c) The mayor of the city shall appoint two members to the authority. One member 
8.17 	appointed by the mayor of the city shall serve until December 31 of the third year 
8.18 	following appointment and one member shall serve until December 31 of the fourth year 
8.19 	following appointment. Thereafter, members appointed under this paragraph shall serve 
8.20 	four-year terms beginning January 1. Each member serves until a successor is appointed 
8.21 	and takes office. Members appointed under this paragraph may reside within the city and 
8.22 	may be appointed officials of a political subdivision.
8.23 	(d) The initial members of the authority must be appointed not later than 30 days 
8.24 	after the date of enactment of this chapter.
8.25 		Subd. 3.Compensation. The authority may compensate its members, other than the 
8.26 	chair, as provided in section 15.0575. The chair shall receive, unless otherwise provided 
8.27 	by other law, a salary in an amount fixed by the authority, and shall be reimbursed for 
8.28 	reasonable expenses to the same extent as a member.
8.29 		Subd. 4.Chair. The chair presides at all meetings of the authority, if present, and 
8.30 	performs all other assigned duties and functions. The authority may appoint from among 
8.31 	its members a vice-chair to act for the chair during the temporary absence or disability of 
8.32 	the chair, and any other officers the authority determines are necessary or convenient.
8.33 		Subd. 5.Removal.  A member, other than the chair, may be removed by the 
8.34 	appointing authority only for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, upon 
8.35 	written charges, and after an opportunity to be heard in defense of the charges.
9.1 		Subd. 6.Bylaws. The authority shall adopt bylaws to establish rules of procedure, 
9.2 	the powers and duties of its officers, and other matters relating to the governance of the 
9.3 	authority and the exercise of its powers. Except as provided in this section, the bylaws 
9.4 	adopted under this subdivision must be similar in form and substance to bylaws adopted 
9.5 	by the Minnesota Ballpark Authority pursuant to section 473.755.
9.6 		Subd. 7.Audit. The legislative auditor shall audit the books and accounts of the 
9.7 	authority once each year or as often as the legislative auditor's funds and personnel permit. 
9.8 	The authority shall pay the total cost of the audit pursuant to section 3.9741.
9.9 		Subd. 8.Executive director; employees. The authority may appoint an executive 
9.10 	director to serve as the chief executive officer of the authority. The executive director 
9.11 	serves at the pleasure of the authority and receives compensation as determined by the 
9.12 	authority. The executive director may be responsible for the operation, management, and 
9.13 	promotion of activities of the authority, as prescribed by the authority. The executive 
9.14 	director has the powers necessarily incident to the performance of duties required and 
9.15 	powers granted by the authority, but does not have authority to incur liability or make 
9.16 	expenditures on behalf of the authority without general or specific directions by the 
9.17 	authority, as shown by the bylaws or minutes of a meeting of the authority. The executive 
9.18 	director is responsible for hiring, supervision, and dismissal of all other employees of 
9.19 	the authority.
9.20 		Subd. 9.Web site. The authority shall establish a Web site for purposes of providing 
9.21 	information to the public concerning all actions taken by the authority. At a minimum, the 
9.22 	Web site must contain a current version of the authority's bylaws, notices of upcoming 
9.23 	meetings, minutes of the authority's meetings, and contact telephone, electronic mail, and 
9.24 	facsimile numbers for public comments.
9.25 		Subd. 10.Quorum; approvals. Any three members shall constitute a quorum for 
9.26 	the conduct of business and action may be taken upon the vote of a majority of members 
9.27 	present at a meeting duly called and held. During the design and construction stages of the 
9.28 	stadium, a four-fifths vote of the authority is required for authority decisions related to 
9.29 	zoning, land use, exterior design of the stadium, related parking, the plaza area, and the 
9.30 	selection of the authority's lead representative during design and construction.

9.31 	Sec. 10. [473J.08] LOCATION.
9.32 	The stadium to be constructed under this chapter shall be located at the stadium 
9.33 	site in the city of Minneapolis. 

9.34 	Sec. 11. [473J.09] POWERS, DUTIES OF THE AUTHORITY.
10.1 		Subdivision 1.Actions.  The authority may sue and be sued. The authority is a public 
10.2 	body and the stadium and stadium infrastructure are public improvements within the 
10.3 	meaning of chapter 562. The authority is a municipality within the meaning of chapter 466.
10.4 		Subd. 2.Acquisition of property.  The authority may acquire from any public or 
10.5 	private entity by lease, purchase, gift, or devise all necessary right, title, and interest in 
10.6 	and to real property, air rights, and personal property deemed necessary to the purposes 
10.7 	contemplated by this chapter. The authority may acquire, by the exercise of condemnation 
10.8 	powers under chapter 117, land, other real property, air rights, personal property, and 
10.9 	other right, title, and interest in property, within the development area for the stadium 
10.10 	site and stadium infrastructure.
10.11 		Subd. 3.Disposition of property.  The authority may sell, lease, or otherwise 
10.12 	dispose of any real or personal property acquired by the authority that is no longer required 
10.13 	for accomplishment of the authority's purposes. The property may be sold in accordance 
10.14 	with the procedures provided by section 469.065, except subdivisions 6 and 7, to the 
10.15 	extent the authority deems it to be practical and consistent with this chapter. Title to the 
10.16 	stadium must not be transferred or sold by the authority prior to the effective date of 
10.17 	enactment of any legislation approving such transfer or sale.
10.18 		Subd. 4.Data practices; open meetings.  Except as otherwise provided in this 
10.19 	chapter, the authority is subject to chapters 13 and 13D.
10.20 		Subd. 5.Facility operation. The authority may develop, construct, equip, improve, 
10.21 	own, operate, manage, maintain, finance, and control the stadium, stadium infrastructure, 
10.22 	and related facilities constructed or acquired under this chapter, or may delegate such 
10.23 	duties through an agreement, subject to the rights and obligations transferred to and 
10.24 	assumed by the authority, the NFL team, other user, third-party manager, or program 
10.25 	manager, under the terms of a lease, use agreement, or development agreement.
10.26 		Subd. 6.Employees; contracts for services. The authority may employ persons 
10.27 	and contract for services necessary to carry out its functions, including the utilization of 
10.28 	employees and consultants retained by other governmental entities. The authority shall 
10.29 	enter into an agreement with the city regarding traffic control for the stadium.
10.30 		Subd. 7.Gifts, grants, loans. The authority may accept monetary contributions, 
10.31 	property, services, and grants or loans of money or other property from the United States, 
10.32 	the state, any subdivision of the state, any agency of those entities, or any person for any 
10.33 	of its purposes, and may enter into any agreement required in connection with the gifts, 
10.34 	grants, or loans. The authority shall hold, use, and dispose of the money, property, or 
10.35 	services according to the terms of the monetary contributions, grant, loan, or agreement.
11.1 		Subd. 8.Use agreements. The authority may lease, license, or enter into use 
11.2 	agreements and may fix, alter, charge, and collect rents, fees, and charges for the use, 
11.3 	occupation, and availability of part or all of any premises, property, or facilities under 
11.4 	its ownership, operation, or control for purposes that will provide athletic, educational, 
11.5 	cultural, commercial, or other entertainment, instruction, or activity for the citizens of 
11.6 	Minnesota and visitors. The use agreements may provide that the other contracting party 
11.7 	has exclusive use of the premises at the times agreed upon, as well as the right to retain 
11.8 	some or all revenues from ticket sales, suite licenses, concessions, advertising, naming 
11.9 	rights, NFL team designated broadcast/media, club seats, signage, and other revenues 
11.10 	derived from the stadium. The lease or use agreement with an NFL team must provide for 
11.11 	the payment by the NFL team of an agreed-upon portion of operating and maintenance 
11.12 	costs and expenses and provide other terms in which the authority and NFL team agree. In 
11.13 	no case may a lease or use agreement permit smoking in the stadium.
11.14 		Subd. 9.Research. The authority may conduct research studies and programs; 
11.15 	collect and analyze data; prepare reports, maps, charts, and tables; and conduct all 
11.16 	necessary hearings and investigations in connection with its functions.
11.17 		Subd. 10.Insurance. The authority may require any employee to obtain and file 
11.18 	with the authority an individual bond or fidelity insurance policy. The authority may 
11.19 	procure insurance in the amounts the authority considers necessary against liability of the 
11.20 	authority or its officers and employees for personal injury or death and property damage or 
11.21 	destruction, consistent with chapter 466, and against risks of damage to or destruction of 
11.22 	any of its facilities, equipment, or other property.
11.23 		Subd. 11.Exemption from Metropolitan Council review; Business Subsidy Act.
 11.24 	The acquisition and betterment of a stadium and stadium infrastructure by the authority 
11.25 	must be conducted pursuant to this chapter and are not subject to sections 473.165 and 
11.26 	473.173. Section 116J.994 does not apply to any transactions of the authority or other 
11.27 	governmental entity related to the stadium or stadium infrastructure or to any tenant or 
11.28 	other users of the stadium or stadium infrastructure. The Metropolitan Council shall waive 
11.29 	any sewer access charges or similar fees and charges customarily imposed attributable to 
11.30 	the design and construction of the stadium and stadium infrastructure.
11.31 		Subd. 12.Incidental powers. In addition to the powers expressly granted in this 
11.32 	chapter, the authority has all powers necessary or incidental thereto.
11.33 		Subd. 13.Grants to the Authority. The commissioner of management and budget 
11.34 	shall make grants to the authority in amounts equal to the amount deposited in the general 
11.35 	fund under article 4, section 1, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), clauses (2) and (3).

12.1 	Sec. 12. [473J.11] STADIUM DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.
12.2 		Subdivision 1.Contracts. (a) The design, development, and construction of the 
12.3 	stadium shall be a collaborative process between the authority and the NFL team. The 
12.4 	authority and the NFL team shall establish a process to reach consensus on key elements 
12.5 	of the stadium program and design, development, and construction.
12.6 	(b) Unless the authority and the NFL team agree otherwise:
12.7 	(1) the authority shall create a stadium design and construction group, including 
12.8 	representatives of the authority and the NFL team, to manage the design of the stadium 
12.9 	and oversee construction;
12.10 	(2) this group shall engage an owner's representative to act on behalf of the group. 
12.11 	The cost of the owner's representative shall be a stadium cost; and
12.12 	(3) the authority and the NFL team shall enter into a development administration 
12.13 	agreement providing for rights and responsibilities of the authority and the NFL team, the 
12.14 	design and construction group, and the owner's representative for design and construction 
12.15 	of the stadium, including but not limited to establishment of minimum design standards. 
12.16 	This development administration agreement shall provide for binding arbitration in 
12.17 	the event that the authority and the NFL team are unable to agree on minimum design 
12.18 	standards or other material aspects of the design.
12.19 	(c) The authority may enter into an agreement with the NFL team and any other 
12.20 	entity relating to the design, construction, financing, operation, maintenance, and use of 
12.21 	the stadium and related facilities and stadium infrastructure. The authority may contract 
12.22 	for materials, supplies, and equipment in accordance with section 471.345, except that 
12.23 	the authority may employ or contract with persons, firms, or corporations to perform one 
12.24 	or more or all of the functions of architect, engineer, construction manager, or program 
12.25 	manager with respect to all or any part of the design, construction, financing, operation, 
12.26 	maintenance, and use of the stadium and stadium infrastructure under the traditional 
12.27 	separate design and build, integrated design-build, construction manager at risk, or 
12.28 	public/private partnership (P3) structures, or in a combination thereof.
12.29 	(d) The authority and the NFL team shall prepare a request for proposals for one or 
12.30 	more of the functions described in paragraph (c). The request must be published in the 
12.31 	State Register and shall include, at a minimum, such requirements that are agreed to by 
12.32 	the authority and the NFL team. The authority and the NFL team may prequalify offerors 
12.33 	by issuing a request for qualifications, in advance of the request for proposals, and select a 
12.34 	short list of responsible offerors prior to discussions and evaluations.
12.35 	(e) As provided in the request for proposals, the authority, with the participation of 
12.36 	the NFL team, may conduct discussions and negotiations with responsible offerors in 
13.1 	order to determine which proposal is most advantageous to the authority and the NFL 
13.2 	team and to negotiate the terms of an agreement. In conducting discussions, there shall 
13.3 	be no disclosure of any information derived from proposals submitted by competing 
13.4 	offerors and the content of all proposals is nonpublic data under chapter 13 until such time 
13.5 	as a notice to award a contract is given by the authority. The agreement shall be subject 
13.6 	to the approval of the NFL team.
13.7 	(f) Prior to the time the authority enters into a construction contract with a 
13.8 	construction manager or program manager certifying a maximum price and a completion 
13.9 	date as provided in paragraph (h), at the request of the NFL team, the authority may 
13.10 	authorize, such authorization not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, the NFL team 
13.11 	to provide for management of the construction of the stadium and related stadium 
13.12 	infrastructure, in which event the NFL team must assume the role and responsibilities 
13.13 	of the authority for completion of construction in a manner consistent with the agreed 
13.14 	minimum design standards and design documents, subject to the terms of this act, 
13.15 	including responsibility for cost overruns.
13.16 	(g) The construction manager or program manager may enter into contracts with 
13.17 	contractors for labor, materials, supplies, and equipment for the construction of the 
13.18 	stadium and related stadium infrastructure through the process of public bidding, except 
13.19 	that the construction manager or program manager may, with the consent of the authority 
13.20 	or the NFL team if the NFL team has assumed responsibility for construction:
13.21 	(1) narrow the listing of eligible bidders to those which the construction manager 
13.22 	or program manager determines to possess sufficient expertise to perform the intended 
13.23 	functions;
13.24 	(2) award contracts to the contractors that the construction manager or program 
13.25 	manager determines provide the best value under a request for proposals as described in 
13.26 	section 16C.28, subdivision 1, paragraphs (a), clause (2), and (c), which are not required 
13.27 	to be the lowest responsible bidder; and 
13.28 	(3) for work the construction manager or program manager determines to be critical 
13.29 	to the completion schedule, award contracts on the basis of competitive proposals, or 
13.30 	perform work with its own forces without soliciting competitive bids if the construction 
13.31 	manager or program manager provides evidence of competitive pricing. 
13.32 	(h) The authority and the NFL team shall require that the construction manager or 
13.33 	program manager certify, before the contract is signed, a fixed and stipulated construction 
13.34 	price and completion date to the authority and post a performance bond in an amount 
13.35 	at least equal to 100 percent of the certified price or such other security satisfactory to 
13.36 	the authority, to cover any costs which may be incurred in excess of the certified price 
14.1 	including, but not limited to, costs incurred by the authority or loss of revenues resulting 
14.2 	from incomplete construction on the completion date. The authority may secure surety 
14.3 	bonds as provided in section 574.26, securing payment of just claims in connection with 
14.4 	all public work undertaken by the authority. Persons entitled to the protection of the 
14.5 	bonds may enforce them as provided in sections 574.28 to 574.32 and are not entitled to a 
14.6 	lien on any property of the authority under the provisions of sections 514.01 to 514.16. 
14.7 	The construction of the stadium is a project as that term is defined in section 177.42, 
14.8 	subdivision 2, and is subject to the prevailing wage law under sections 177.41 to 177.43.
14.9 		Subd. 2.Changes. Unless otherwise agreed to by the authority and the NFL team, if 
14.10 	any party requests a change in minimum design standards, and this change is responsible 
14.11 	for requiring the project to exceed the stated budget, the requesting party is liable for 
14.12 	any cost overruns or associated liabilities.
14.13 		Subd. 3.Stadium design. The stadium and stadium infrastructure shall be designed 
14.14 	and constructed incorporating the following general program and design elements:
14.15 	(1) Unless otherwise agreed to by the authority and the NFL team, the stadium 
14.16 	shall comprise approximately 1,500,000 square feet with approximately 65,000 seats, 
14.17 	expandable to 72,000, shall meet or exceed NFL program requirements, and include 
14.18 	approximately 150 suites and approximately 7,500 club seats or other such components as 
14.19 	agreed to by the authority and the NFL team;
14.20 	(2) space for NFL team-related exhibitions and sales, which shall include the 
14.21 	following: NFL team museum and Hall of Fame, retail merchandise and gift shop retail 
14.22 	venues, and themed concessions and restaurants;
14.23 	(3) year-round space for the NFL team administrative operations, sales, and 
14.24 	marketing, including a ticket office, team meeting space, locker, and training rooms;
14.25 	(4) space for administrative offices of the authority;
14.26 	(5) 2,000 parking spaces within one block of the stadium, connected by skyway or 
14.27 	tunnel to the stadium, and 500 parking spaces within two blocks of the stadium, with a 
14.28 	dedicated walkway on game days;
14.29 	(6) elements sufficient to provide community and civic uses as determined by the 
14.30 	authority; and
14.31 	(7) a roof that is fixed or retractable, provided that if the roof is retractable, it is 
14.32 	accomplished without any increase to the funding provided by the state or the city.
14.33 		Subd. 4.Cost overruns, savings. The authority may accept financial obligations 
14.34 	relating to cost overruns associated with acquisition of the stadium site, stadium 
14.35 	infrastructure, and stadium design, development, and construction, provided that the 
14.36 	authority shall not accept responsibility for cost overruns and shall not be responsible for 
15.1 	cost overruns if the authority has authorized the NFL team to provide for management 
15.2 	of construction of the stadium under section 473J.11, subdivision 1. Cost savings or 
15.3 	additional funds obtained by the authority or the NFL team for the stadium or stadium 
15.4 	infrastructure may be used first to fund additional stadium or stadium infrastructure, and 
15.5 	then to fund capital reserves as determined by the authority and NFL team.

15.6 	Sec. 13. [473J.112] COMMEMORATIVE BRICKS.
15.7 	The authority shall sell commemorative bricks to be displayed at a prominent 
15.8 	location in the new stadium, for an amount to be determined by the authority. The 
15.9 	authority shall work with the commissioner to ensure that purchase of a brick is a tax 
15.10 	deductible donation on the part of the donating person or organization. Funds raised 
15.11 	through this section shall be appropriated to the commissioner of management and budget 
15.12 	for a grant to the Minnesota Stadium Authority.

15.13 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

15.14 	Sec. 14. [473J.12] EMPLOYMENT.
15.15 		Subdivision 1.Hiring and recruitment. In the design, development, construction, 
15.16 	management, operation, maintenance and capital repair, replacement and improvement of 
15.17 	the stadium and stadium infrastructure, the authority shall make every effort to employ, 
15.18 	and cause the NFL team, the construction manager and other subcontractors, vendors, and 
15.19 	concessionaires to employ women and members of minority communities when hiring. 
15.20 	Further, goals for construction contracts to be awarded to women and minority-owned 
15.21 	businesses will be in a percentage at least equal to the minimum used for city of 
15.22 	Minneapolis development projects, and the other construction workforce will establish 
15.23 	workforce utilization goals at least equal to current city goals and include workers from 
15.24 	city zip codes that have high rates of poverty and unemployment.
15.25 		Subd. 2.Other required agreements. The NFL team or the authority shall give 
15.26 	food, beverage, retail, and concession workers presently employed by the NFL team or the 
15.27 	Minnesota Sports Facilities Commission or its vendors at the existing football stadium the 
15.28 	opportunity to continue their employment in comparable positions at the new stadium. 
15.29 	Workers who are presently represented under a collective bargaining agreement may seek 
15.30 	to continue such representation in the facility and designate such, or another collective 
15.31 	bargaining unit, as their representative.

15.32 	Sec. 15. [473J.13] STADIUM OPERATIONS; CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
16.1 		Subdivision 1.Stadium operation. The stadium shall be operated in a first class 
16.2 	manner, similar to and consistent with other comparable NFL stadiums, such as the 
16.3 	stadium currently known as Lucas Oil Field. The authority and the team will mutually 
16.4 	agree on a third-party management company or individual to manage the stadium and on 
16.5 	certain major vendors to the stadium. The authority, with the approval of the NFL team, 
16.6 	may enter into an agreement with a program manager for management of the stadium, for 
16.7 	a maximum of 30 years.
16.8 		Subd. 2.Operating expenses. The authority must pay or cause to be paid all 
16.9 	operating expenses of the stadium. The authority must require in the lease or use 
16.10 	agreement with the NFL team that the NFL team pay the authority, beginning January 
16.11 	1, 201., or other date as mutually agreed upon by the parties, toward operating costs of 
16.12 	the stadium, $8,500,000 each year, increased by a three percent annual inflation rate. 
16.13 	Beginning January 1, 201., or other date as mutually agreed upon by the parties, the state 
16.14 	shall pay the authority toward operating expenses, $6,000,000 each year, increased by 
16.15 	an annual adjustment factor. The authority may establish an operating reserve to cover 
16.16 	operating expense shortfalls and may accept funds from any source for deposit in the 
16.17 	operating reserve. The establishment or funding of an authority operating reserve must not 
16.18 	decrease the amounts required to be paid to the authority toward operating costs under 
16.19 	this subdivision unless agreed to by the authority. The authority will be responsible for 
16.20 	operating cost overruns. After the joint selection of the third-party manager or program 
16.21 	manager, the authority may agree with a program manager or other third-party manager 
16.22 	of the stadium on a fixed cost operating, management, or employment agreement with 
16.23 	operating cost protections under which the program manager or third-party manager 
16.24 	assumes responsibility for and will pay when due, stadium operating costs and shortfalls. 
16.25 	The agreement with the manager must require the manager to prepare an initial and 
16.26 	ongoing operating plan and operating budgets for approval by the authority in consultation 
16.27 	with the NFL team. The manager must agree to operate the stadium in accordance with 
16.28 	the approved operating plan and operating budget.
16.29 		Subd. 3.Public access. The authority will work to maximize access for public and 
16.30 	amateur sports, community, and civic events, and other public events in type and on terms 
16.31 	consistent with those currently held at the existing football stadium, as defined in section 
16.32 	473.551, subdivision 9. The authority may provide that these events have exclusive use 
16.33 	of the premises at agreed-upon times subject to the scheduling rights of the NFL team 
16.34 	under the lease or use agreement.
16.35 		Subd. 4.Capital improvements. (a) The authority shall establish a capital 
16.36 	reserve fund. The authority shall be responsible for making, or for causing others to 
17.1 	make, all capital repairs, replacements, and improvements for the stadium and stadium 
17.2 	infrastructure. The authority shall maintain, or cause others to maintain, the stadium and 
17.3 	stadium infrastructure in a safe, clean, attractive, and first class manner so as to cause 
17.4 	them to remain in a condition comparable to that of other comparable NFL facilities of 
17.5 	similar design and age. The authority shall make, or cause others to make, all necessary 
17.6 	or appropriate repairs, renewals, and replacements, whether structural or nonstructural, 
17.7 	interior or exterior, ordinary or extraordinary, foreseen or unforeseen, in a prompt and 
17.8 	timely manner. The authority with approval of the NFL team may enter into an agreement 
17.9 	with a program manager to perform some or all of the responsibilities of the authority in 
17.10 	this subdivision and to assume and accept financial liability for the cost of performing 
17.11 	the responsibilities.
17.12 	(b) The NFL team must contribute $1,500,000 each year for the term of the lease or 
17.13 	use agreement to the reserve fund, increased by a three percent annual inflation rate.
17.14 	(c) The state shall contribute $1,500,000 each year for the term of the lease to 
17.15 	the reserve fund. The contributions of the state are subject to increase by an annual 
17.16 	adjustment factor.
17.17 	(d) The authority with input from the NFL team shall develop short-term and 
17.18 	long-term capital funding plans and shall use those plans to guide the future capital needs 
17.19 	of the stadium and stadium infrastructure. The authority shall make the final determination 
17.20 	with respect to funding capital needs. Any capital improvement proposed by the NFL 
17.21 	team intended primarily to provide revenue enhancements to the NFL team shall be paid 
17.22 	for by the NFL team, unless otherwise agreed to with the authority.
17.23 		Subd. 5.Game day payments. In addition to operating expense contributions of 
17.24 	the NFL team under subdivision 2, the NFL team shall pay all game day, NFL sponsored 
17.25 	major league soccer, and other NFL team event sponsored expenses within the stadium 
17.26 	and stadium infrastructure.
17.27 		Subd. 6.Cooperation with financing. The authority will cooperate with the 
17.28 	NFL team to facilitate the financing of the NFL team's contribution. Such agreement to 
17.29 	cooperate shall not require the authority to incur any additional costs or provide conduit 
17.30 	financing. The lease, license, and other transaction documents shall include provisions 
17.31 	customarily required by lenders in stadium financings.

17.32 	Sec. 16. [473J.15] CRITERIA AND CONDITIONS.
17.33 		Subdivision 1.Binding and enforceable. In developing the stadium and entering 
17.34 	into related contracts, the authority must follow and enforce the criteria and conditions in 
18.1 	this section, provided that a determination by the authority that those criteria or conditions 
18.2 	have been met under any agreement or otherwise shall be conclusive.
18.3 		Subd. 2.NFL team/private contribution; timing of expenditures. The NFL 
18.4 	team/private contribution, including stadium builder license proceeds, for stadium costs 
18.5 	must be made in cash in the amount of at least $427,000,000. Prior to the first issuance 
18.6 	of bonds under section 16A.965, the first portion of the NFL team/private contribution 
18.7 	in the amount of $50,000,000 must be deposited to the construction fund to pay for 
18.8 	the initial stadium costs, as costs are incurred, or the team must provide security or 
18.9 	other credit worthiness in the amount of $50,000,000, subject to the satisfaction of the 
18.10 	authority. After the first $50,000,000 of stadium costs have been paid from the initial NFL 
18.11 	team/private contribution, state funds shall be deposited to the construction fund to pay for 
18.12 	the next $50,000,000 of costs of the project. Prior to any state funds being deposited in 
18.13 	the construction fund, the NFL team must provide security or a financing commitment 
18.14 	reasonably satisfactory to the authority for the balance of the required NFL team/private 
18.15 	contribution and for payment of cost overruns if the NFL team assumes responsibility 
18.16 	for stadium construction under section 473J.11. Budgeted project costs shall be borne 
18.17 	proportionately by the authority and the NFL team/private contribution in the amount of 
18.18 	56 percent and 44 percent, respectively. In the event the project terminates before the 
18.19 	initial contributions are expended by the parties under this subdivision, the parties shall be 
18.20 	reimbursed in the amounts they have deposited to the construction fund proportionate to 
18.21 	these project funding percentages.
18.22 		Subd. 3.Lease or use agreements; 30-year term. The authority must enter into 
18.23 	a long-term lease or use agreement with the NFL team for the NFL team's use of the 
18.24 	stadium. The NFL team must agree to play all regularly scheduled and postseason home 
18.25 	games at the stadium, with the occasional exception of a game played elsewhere as agreed 
18.26 	to in the lease or use agreement. Preseason games may also be scheduled and played at 
18.27 	the stadium. Training facilities must remain in Minnesota during the term of the lease or 
18.28 	use agreement. The lease or use agreement must be for a term of at least 30 years from 
18.29 	the date of substantial completion of the stadium for professional football games. The 
18.30 	lease or use agreement may provide options for the NFL team to extend the term for up 
18.31 	to four additional periods of five years. The lease or use agreement must include terms 
18.32 	for default, termination, and breach of the agreement. Recognizing that the presence of 
18.33 	professional football provides to the state of Minnesota and its citizens highly valued, 
18.34 	intangible benefits that are virtually impossible to quantify and, therefore, not recoverable 
18.35 	in the event of an NFL team owner's breach of contract, the lease and use agreements must 
18.36 	provide for specific performance and injunctive relief to enforce provisions relating to use 
19.1 	of the stadium for professional football and must not include escape clauses or buyout 
19.2 	provisions. The NFL team must not enter into or accept any agreement or requirement 
19.3 	with or from any entity that is inconsistent with the NFL team's binding commitment 
19.4 	to the 30-year term of the lease or use agreement or that would in any manner dilute, 
19.5 	interfere with, or negate the provisions of the lease or use agreement, providing for 
19.6 	specific performance or injunctive relief. The legislature conclusively determines, as a 
19.7 	matter of public policy, that the lease or use agreement, and any grant agreement under 
19.8 	this chapter that includes a specific performance clause:
19.9 	(1) explicitly authorizes specific performance as a remedy for breach;
19.10 	(2) is made for adequate consideration and upon terms which are otherwise fair 
19.11 	and reasonable;
19.12 	(3) has not been included through sharp practice, misrepresentation, or mistake;
19.13 	(4) if specifically enforced, does not cause unreasonable or disproportionate hardship 
19.14 	or loss to the NFL team or to third parties; and
19.15 	(5) involves performance in a manner and the rendering of services of a nature and 
19.16 	under circumstances that the beneficiary cannot be adequately compensated in damages.
19.17 		Subd. 4.Lease or use agreements; revenues, payments. A lease or use agreement 
19.18 	shall include rent and other fees and expenses to be paid by the NFL team. The authority 
19.19 	shall agree to provide in the lease or use agreement for the NFL team to receive all game 
19.20 	day revenues, including but not limited to, suite revenues, advertising, concessions, 
19.21 	signage, broadcast and media, and club seat revenue. The agreement shall also provide 
19.22 	that all naming rights to the stadium are retained by the NFL team, subject to the approval 
19.23 	of the name or names by the authority consistent with those criteria set out in the lease or 
19.24 	use agreement. The agreement shall provide for the authority to receive all general ticket 
19.25 	revenues and other event revenues other than from NFL team games, NFL team owned 
19.26 	major league soccer games, and other NFL team events agreed to by the authority.
19.27 		Subd. 5.Notice of breach or default. Until 30 years from the date of stadium 
19.28 	completion, the NFL team must provide written notice to the authority not less than 180 
19.29 	days prior to any action, including any action imposed upon the NFL team by the NFL, 
19.30 	which would result in a breach or default of provisions of the lease or use agreements 
19.31 	required to be included under subdivision 3. If this notice provision is violated and the 
19.32 	NFL team has already breached or been in default under the required provisions, the 
19.33 	authority or the state of Minnesota may specifically enforce the lease or use agreement 
19.34 	and Minnesota courts shall fashion equitable remedies so that the NFL team fulfills the 
19.35 	conditions of the lease and use agreements.
20.1 		Subd. 6.Enforceable financial commitments. The authority must determine before 
20.2 	stadium construction begins that all public and private funding sources for construction, 
20.3 	operating expenses, and capital improvements and repairs of the stadium are included in 
20.4 	written agreements. The committed funds must be adequate to design, construct, furnish, 
20.5 	and equip the stadium, and pay projected operating expenses and the costs of capital 
20.6 	improvements and repairs during the term of the lease or use agreement with the NFL 
20.7 	team. The NFL team must provide the authority access to NFL team financial or other 
20.8 	information, which the authority deems necessary for such determination. Any financial 
20.9 	information obtained by the authority under this subdivision is nonpublic data under 
20.10 	section 13.02, subdivision 9.
20.11 		Subd. 7.Environmental requirements. The authority must comply with all 
20.12 	environmental requirements imposed by regulatory agencies for the stadium, site, and 
20.13 	structure, except as provided by section 473J.09, subdivision 11, or by section 473J.17.
20.14 		Subd. 8.Public share on sale of NFL team. The lease or use agreement must 
20.15 	provide that, if the NFL team is sold or an interest in the NFL team is sold after the 
20.16 	effective date of this chapter, a portion of the sale price must be paid to the authority and 
20.17 	deposited in a reserve fund for improvements to the stadium or expended as the authority 
20.18 	may otherwise direct. The portion required to be so paid to the authority is 18 percent 
20.19 	of the amount in excess of the purchase price of the NFL team by the selling owner or 
20.20 	owners, declining to zero 15 years after commencement of stadium construction in 
20.21 	increments of 1.2 percent each year. The agreement must provide exceptions for sales 
20.22 	to members of the owners' family and entities and trusts beneficially owned by family 
20.23 	members, sales to employees of equity interests aggregating up to ten percent, sales related 
20.24 	to capital infusions not distributed to the owners, and sales amongst existing owners not 
20.25 	exceeding 20 percent equity interest in the NFL team.
20.26 		Subd. 9.Authority's access to NFL team financial information. A notice 
20.27 	provision for a material breach shall be agreed to between the authority and the NFL team. 
20.28 	In the event there is a material breach by the NFL team under the lease or use agreement, 
20.29 	the lease or use agreement must provide the authority access to audited financial statements 
20.30 	of the NFL team and other financial information that the authority deems necessary to 
20.31 	enforce the terms of any lease or use agreements. Any financial information obtained by 
20.32 	the authority under this subdivision is nonpublic data under section 13.02, subdivision 9.
20.33 		Subd. 10.NFL team name retained. The lease or use agreement must provide 
20.34 	that the NFL team and NFL will transfer to the state of Minnesota the Minnesota Vikings' 
20.35 	heritage and records, including the name, logo, colors, history, playing records, trophies, 
20.36 	and memorabilia if the NFL team is in violation of the lease or use agreement.
21.1 		Subd. 11.Stadium design. (a) The authority and the NFL team will strive to build a 
21.2 	stadium that is environmentally and energy efficient and will make an effort to build a 
21.3 	stadium that is eligible to receive the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design 
21.4 	(LEED) certification for environmental design, and to the extent practicable, will strive to 
21.5 	make the stadium design architecturally significant.
21.6 	(b) The stadium design must, to the extent feasible, follow sustainable building 
21.7 	guidelines established under section 16B.325.
21.8 	(c) The authority and the team must ensure that the stadium be, to the greatest extent 
21.9 	practicable, constructed of American-made steel.
21.10 		Subd. 12.Necessary approvals. The authority and the NFL team must secure 
21.11 	any necessary approvals to the terms of the lease and use agreement and the design and 
21.12 	construction plans for the stadium, including prior approval of the NFL.
21.13 		Subd. 13.Affordable access. The lease or use agreement must provide for an 
21.14 	agreed-upon number of affordable tickets to the professional sporting events held in the 
21.15 	stadium.
21.16 		Subd. 14.Stadium builder's licenses. The authority shall own and retain the 
21.17 	exclusive right to sell stadium builder's licenses in the stadium. The authority will retain 
21.18 	the NFL team to act as the authority's agent in marketing and selling such licenses.
21.19 		Subd. 15.Major league soccer. The authority shall, for five years after the first 
21.20 	NFL team home game is played in the stadium, grant the NFL team the exclusive right to 
21.21 	establish major league soccer at the stadium. The authority and the NFL team may enter 
21.22 	into an agreement providing the terms and conditions of such an arrangement, provided:
21.23 	(1) if any of the NFL team owners whose family owns at least three percent of 
21.24 	the NFL team purchases full or partial ownership in a major league soccer franchise, 
21.25 	such franchise may play in the stadium under a use agreement with similar terms as are 
21.26 	applicable to the NFL team, including a provision of payment of game day costs and 
21.27 	reasonable marginal costs incurred by the authority as a result of the major league soccer 
21.28 	team at no additional rent; and
21.29 	(2) capital improvements required by a major league soccer franchise must be 
21.30 	financed by the owners of the major league soccer team, unless otherwise agreed to by 
21.31 	the authority.
21.32 		Subd. 16.NFL team-related entities. Subject to the prior approval of the authority, 
21.33 	which shall not be unreasonably withheld, any of the obligations by the NFL team may 
21.34 	be performed by the NFL team, a related entity, or a third party, and the NFL team, any 
21.35 	entity related to the NFL team or third party may receive any revenues to which the NFL 
22.1 	team is entitled hereunder; provided, however, the NFL team shall remain liable if any 
22.2 	obligations are assigned to a related entity or third party.

22.3 	Sec. 17. [473J.17] MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES.
22.4 		Subdivision 1.Property acquisition and disposition. The city may, to the extent 
22.5 	legally permissible, acquire land, air rights, and other property interests within the 
22.6 	development area for the stadium site and stadium infrastructure and convey it to the 
22.7 	authority with or without consideration, prepare a site for development as a stadium, and 
22.8 	acquire and construct any related stadium infrastructure. To the extent property parcels or 
22.9 	interests acquired are more extensive than the stadium infrastructure requirements, the city 
22.10 	may sell or otherwise dispose of the excess.
22.11 		Subd. 2.Claims. Except as may be mutually agreed to by the city and the authority, 
22.12 	the city has no interest in or claim to any assets or revenues of the authority.
22.13 		Subd. 3.Environmental; planning and zoning. The authority is the responsible 
22.14 	governmental unit for an environmental impact statement for the stadium prepared under 
22.15 	section 116D.04, if an environmental impact statement is necessary. Notwithstanding 
22.16 	section 116D.04, subdivision 2b, and implementing rules: (1) the environmental 
22.17 	impact statement shall not be required to consider alternative stadium sites; and (2) the 
22.18 	environmental impact statement must be determined to be adequate before commencing 
22.19 	work on the foundation of the stadium, but the stadium and stadium infrastructure may 
22.20 	otherwise be started and all preliminary and final government decisions and actions may 
22.21 	be made and taken including, but not limited to, acquiring land; obtaining financing; 
22.22 	granting permits or other land use approvals; entering into grant, lease, or use agreements; 
22.23 	or preparing the site or related stadium infrastructure prior to a determination of the 
22.24 	adequacy of the environmental impact statement.
22.25 		Subd. 4.Local government expenditure. The city may make expenditures or 
22.26 	grants for other costs incidental and necessary to further the purposes of this chapter and 
22.27 	may, by agreement, reimburse in whole or in part, any entity that has granted, loaned, or 
22.28 	advanced funds to the city to further the purposes of this chapter. The city may reimburse 
22.29 	the authority or a local governmental entity or make a grant to the authority or such a 
22.30 	governmental unit or be reimbursed by the authority or local government entity for site 
22.31 	acquisition, preparation of the site for stadium development, and stadium infrastructure.
22.32 		Subd. 5.Municipal authority. The legislature intends that, except as expressly 
22.33 	limited herein, the city may acquire and develop stadium infrastructure, enter into contracts 
22.34 	with the authority and other governmental or nongovernmental entities, appropriate funds, 
22.35 	and make employees, consultants, and other revenues available for those purposes.
23.1 		Subd. 6.Stadium Implementation Committee; city review. In order to accomplish 
23.2 	the objectives of this act within the required time frame, it is necessary to establish an 
23.3 	alternative process for municipal land use and development review. It is hereby found 
23.4 	and declared that the construction of a stadium within the development area is consistent 
23.5 	with the adopted area plan, is the preferred stadium location, and is a permitted land use. 
23.6 	This subdivision establishes a procedure for all land use and development reviews and 
23.7 	approvals by the city of Minneapolis for the stadium and related stadium infrastructure and 
23.8 	supersedes all land use and development rules and restrictions and procedures imposed 
23.9 	by other law, charter, or ordinance, including without limitation section 15.99. No later 
23.10 	than 30 days after ......., the city of Minneapolis shall establish a stadium implementation 
23.11 	committee to make recommendations on the design plans submitted for the stadium, and 
23.12 	stadium infrastructure, and related improvements. The implementation committee must 
23.13 	take action to issue its recommendations within the time frames established in the planning 
23.14 	and construction timetable issued by the authority which shall provide for no less than 60 
23.15 	days for the committee's review. The recommendations of the implementation committee 
23.16 	shall be forwarded to the city of Minneapolis Planning Commission for an advisory 
23.17 	recommendation and then to the city council for final action in a single resolution, which 
23.18 	final action must be taken within 45 days of the submission of the recommendations to the 
23.19 	planning commission. The city council shall not impose any unreasonable conditions on 
23.20 	the recommendations of the implementation committee, nor take any action or impose 
23.21 	any conditions that will result in delay from the time frames established in the planning 
23.22 	and construction timetable or in additional overall costs. Failure of the city council to act 
23.23 	within the 45-day period shall be deemed to be approval. The authority may seek de novo 
23.24 	review in the district court of any city council action. The district court or any appellate 
23.25 	court shall expedite review to the maximum extent possible and timely issue relief, orders, 
23.26 	or opinions as necessary to give effect to the provisions and objectives in this act.

23.27 	Sec. 18. [473J.19] PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION; SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.
23.28 	Any real or personal property acquired, owned, leased, controlled, used, or occupied 
23.29 	by the authority for any of the purposes of this chapter, is acquired, owned, leased, 
23.30 	controlled, used, and occupied for public, governmental, and municipal purposes. The 
23.31 	stadium and stadium infrastructure are exempt from ad valorem taxation by the state 
23.32 	or any political subdivision of the state provided that the properties are subject to 
23.33 	special assessments levied by a political subdivision for a local improvement in amounts 
23.34 	proportionate to and not exceeding the special benefit received by the properties from the 
23.35 	improvement. No possible use of any of the properties in any manner different from their 
24.1 	use under this chapter may be considered in determining the special benefit received by 
24.2 	the properties. Notwithstanding section 272.01, subdivision 2, or 273.19, real or personal 
24.3 	property which is subject to a lease or use agreement between the authority and another 
24.4 	person for uses related to the purposes of this chapter, including the operation of the 
24.5 	stadium and related parking facilities, is exempt from taxation regardless of the length of 
24.6 	the lease or use agreement or the characteristics of the entity leasing or using the property. 
24.7 	This section, insofar as it provides an exemption or special treatment, does not apply to 
24.8 	any real property that is leased for residential, business, or commercial development or to 
24.9 	a restaurant that is open for general business more than 200 days a year, or other purposes 
24.10 	different from those contemplated in this chapter.

24.11 	Sec. 19. [473J.21] LIQUOR LICENSES.
24.12 	At the request of the authority, the city may issue intoxicating liquor licenses that are 
24.13 	reasonably requested for the premises of the stadium site. These licenses are in addition to 
24.14 	the number authorized by law. All provisions of chapter 340A not inconsistent with this 
24.15 	section apply to the licenses authorized under this section.

24.16 	Sec. 20. [473J.23] LOCAL TAXES.
24.17 	No new or additional local sales or use tax shall be imposed on sales at the 
24.18 	stadium site unless the tax is applicable throughout the taxing jurisdiction. No new or 
24.19 	additional local tax shall be imposed on sales of tickets and admissions to NFL team, NFL 
24.20 	team owned major league soccer, or other team related football events at the stadium, 
24.21 	notwithstanding any law or ordinance, unless the tax is applicable throughout the taxing 
24.22 	jurisdiction. The admissions and amusements tax currently imposed by the city of 
24.23 	Minneapolis pursuant to Laws 1969, chapter 1092, may apply to admissions for football 
24.24 	and NFL team related events at the stadium.

24.25 	Sec. 21. [473J.25] METROPOLITAN SPORTS FACILITIES COMMISSION 
24.26 	ASSETS; LIABILITIES TO AUTHORITY.
24.27 		Subdivision 1.Authority expenses. The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission 
24.28 	shall pay the operating expenses of the authority including salaries, compensation, and 
24.29 	other personnel, office, equipment, consultant and any other costs, until the commission is 
24.30 	abolished pursuant to subdivision 3.
24.31 		Subd. 2.Transfer. Within 90 days of the enactment of this chapter, the Metropolitan 
24.32 	Sports Facilities Commission shall pay its outstanding obligations, settle its accounts, and 
24.33 	transfer its remaining assets, liabilities, and obligations to the authority, for its purposes.
25.1 		Subd. 3.Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission abolished. Upon transfer to 
25.2 	the authority of all remaining assets, liabilities, and obligations of the Metropolitan Sports 
25.3 	Facilities Commission, in subdivision 1, the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission is 
25.4 	abolished.
25.5 		Subd. 4.Employees. Upon transfer of ownership all persons employed by the 
25.6 	Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission shall be transferred to the Minnesota Stadium 
25.7 	Authority without loss of right or privilege. Nothing in this section shall be construed to 
25.8 	give any such person the right or privilege to continue in the same level or classification 
25.9 	of employment previously held. The Minnesota Stadium Authority may assign any such 
25.10 	person to an employment level and classification which it deems appropriate and desirable 
25.11 	in accordance with its personnel code.

25.12 	Sec. 22. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 25.13 	Except as otherwise provided, this article is effective the day following final 
25.14 	enactment.

25.15 	ARTICLE 2
25.16 	STATE STADIUM FUNDING

25.17 	Section 1. [16A.965] STADIUM APPROPRIATION BONDS.
25.18 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) The definitions in this subdivision and in chapter 
25.19 	473J apply to this section.
25.20 	(b) "Appropriation bond" means a bond, note, or other similar instrument of the state 
25.21 	payable during a biennium from one or more of the following sources:
25.22 	(1) money appropriated by law from the general fund, including, without limitation, 
25.23 	revenues deposited in the general fund as provided in articles 4 and 5, in any biennium for 
25.24 	debt service due with respect to obligations described in subdivision 2, paragraph (b);
25.25 	(2) proceeds of the sale of obligations described in subdivision 2, paragraph (b);
25.26 	(3) payments received for that purpose under agreements and ancillary arrangements 
25.27 	described in subdivision 2, paragraph (d); and
25.28 	(4) investment earnings on amounts in clauses (1) to (3).
25.29 	(c) "Debt service" means the amount payable in any biennium of principal, premium, 
25.30 	if any, and interest on appropriation bonds.
25.31 		Subd. 2.Authorization to issue appropriation bonds. (a) Subject to the limitations 
25.32 	of this subdivision, the commissioner may sell and issue appropriation bonds of the state 
25.33 	under this section for public purposes as provided by law, including, in particular, the 
25.34 	financing of all or a portion of the acquisition, construction, improving, and equipping 
26.1 	of the stadium project of the Minnesota Stadium Authority as provided by chapter 473J. 
26.2 	Proceeds of the appropriation bonds must be credited to a special appropriation stadium 
26.3 	bond proceeds fund in the state treasury. Net income from investment of the proceeds, 
26.4 	as estimated by the commissioner, must be credited to the special appropriation stadium 
26.5 	bond proceeds fund.
26.6 	(b) Appropriation bonds may be sold and issued in amounts that, in the opinion of 
26.7 	the commissioner, are necessary to provide sufficient funds, not to exceed $548,000,000 
26.8 	net of costs of issuance, deposits for debt service reserve funds, and costs of credit 
26.9 	enhancement for achieving the purposes authorized as provided under paragraph (a), and 
26.10 	pay debt service, pay costs of issuance, make deposits to reserve funds, pay the costs 
26.11 	of credit enhancement, or make payments under other agreements entered into under 
26.12 	paragraph (d); provided, however, that appropriation bonds issued and unpaid shall not 
26.13 	exceed $650,000,000 in principal amount, excluding refunding bonds sold and issued 
26.14 	under subdivision 4.
26.15 	(c) Appropriation bonds may be issued from time to time in one or more series on 
26.16 	the terms and conditions the commissioner determines to be in the best interests of the 
26.17 	state, but the term on any series of appropriation bonds may not exceed 30 years. The 
26.18 	appropriation bonds of each issue and series thereof shall be dated and bear interest, 
26.19 	and may be includable in or excludable from the gross income of the owners for federal 
26.20 	income tax purposes.
26.21 	(d) At the time of, or in anticipation of, issuing the appropriation bonds, and at any 
26.22 	time thereafter, so long as the appropriation bonds are outstanding, the commissioner may 
26.23 	enter into agreements and ancillary arrangements relating to the appropriation bonds, 
26.24 	including but not limited to trust indentures, grant agreements, lease or use agreements, 
26.25 	operating agreements, management agreements, liquidity facilities, remarketing or 
26.26 	dealer agreements, letter of credit agreements, insurance policies, guaranty agreements, 
26.27 	reimbursement agreements, indexing agreements, or interest exchange agreements. Any 
26.28 	payments made or received according to the agreement or ancillary arrangement shall be 
26.29 	made from or deposited as provided in the agreement or ancillary arrangement. The 
26.30 	determination of the commissioner included in an interest exchange agreement that the 
26.31 	agreement relates to an appropriation bond shall be conclusive.
26.32 	(e) The commissioner may enter into written agreements or contracts relating to the 
26.33 	continuing disclosure of information necessary to comply with, or facilitate the issuance 
26.34 	of appropriation bonds in accordance with federal securities laws, rules, and regulations, 
26.35 	including Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations in Code of Federal 
26.36 	Regulations, title 17, section 240.15c 2-12. An agreement may be in the form of covenants 
27.1 	with purchasers and holders of appropriation bonds set forth in the order or resolution 
27.2 	authorizing the issuance of the appropriation bonds, or a separate document authorized 
27.3 	by the order or resolution.
27.4 	(f) The appropriation bonds are not subject to chapter 16C.
27.5 		Subd. 3.Form; procedure. (a) Appropriation bonds may be issued in the form 
27.6 	of bonds, notes, or other similar instruments, and in the manner provided in section 
27.7 	16A.672. In the event that any provision of section 16A.672 conflicts with this section, 
27.8 	this section shall control.
27.9 	(b) Every appropriation bond shall include a conspicuous statement of the limitation 
27.10 	established in subdivision 6.
27.11 	(c) Appropriation bonds may be sold at either public or private sale upon such terms 
27.12 	as the commissioner shall determine are not inconsistent with this section and may be sold 
27.13 	at any price or percentage of par value. Any bid received may be rejected.
27.14 	(d) Appropriation bonds must bear interest at a fixed or variable rate.
27.15 	(e) Notwithstanding any other law, appropriation bonds issued under this section 
27.16 	shall be fully negotiable.
27.17 		Subd. 4.Refunding bonds. The commissioner from time to time may issue 
27.18 	appropriation bonds for the purpose of refunding any appropriation bonds then 
27.19 	outstanding, including the payment of any redemption premiums on the bonds, any 
27.20 	interest accrued or to accrue to the redemption date, and costs related to the issuance and 
27.21 	sale of the refunding bonds. The proceeds of any refunding bonds may, in the discretion of 
27.22 	the commissioner, be applied to the purchase or payment at maturity of the appropriation 
27.23 	bonds to be refunded, to the redemption of the outstanding appropriation bonds on any 
27.24 	redemption date, or to pay interest on the refunding bonds and may, pending application, 
27.25 	be placed in escrow to be applied to the purchase, payment, retirement, or redemption. Any 
27.26 	escrowed proceeds, pending such use, may be invested and reinvested in obligations that 
27.27 	are authorized investments under section 11A.24. The income earned or realized on the 
27.28 	investment may also be applied to the payment of the appropriation bonds to be refunded 
27.29 	or interest or premiums on the refunded appropriation bonds, or to pay interest on the 
27.30 	refunding bonds. After the terms of the escrow have been fully satisfied, any balance of the 
27.31 	proceeds and any investment income may be returned to the general fund or, if applicable, 
27.32 	the special appropriation stadium bond proceeds fund for use in any lawful manner. All 
27.33 	refunding bonds issued under this subdivision must be prepared, executed, delivered, and 
27.34 	secured by appropriations in the same manner as the appropriation bonds to be refunded.
28.1 		Subd. 5.Appropriation bonds as legal investments. Any of the following entities 
28.2 	may legally invest any sinking funds, money, or other funds belonging to them or under 
28.3 	their control in any appropriation bonds issued under this section:
28.4 	(1) the state, the investment board, public officers, municipal corporations, political 
28.5 	subdivisions, and public bodies;
28.6 	(2) banks and bankers, savings and loan associations, credit unions, trust companies, 
28.7 	savings banks and institutions, investment companies, insurance companies, insurance 
28.8 	associations, and other persons carrying on a banking or insurance business; and
28.9 	(3) personal representatives, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries.
28.10 		Subd. 6.No full faith and credit; state not required to make appropriations.
 28.11 	The appropriation bonds are not public debt of the state, and the full faith, credit, and 
28.12 	taxing powers of the state are not pledged to the payment of the appropriation bonds or to 
28.13 	any payment that the state agrees to make under this section. Appropriation bonds shall 
28.14 	not be obligations paid directly, in whole or in part, from a tax of statewide application 
28.15 	on any class of property, income, transaction, or privilege. Appropriation bonds shall be 
28.16 	payable in each fiscal year only from amounts that the legislature may appropriate for debt 
28.17 	service for any fiscal year, provided that nothing in this section shall be construed to 
28.18 	require the state to appropriate funds sufficient to make debt service payments with respect 
28.19 	to the appropriation bonds in any fiscal year. Appropriation bonds shall be canceled and 
28.20 	shall no longer be outstanding on the earlier of (1) the first day of a fiscal year for which 
28.21 	the legislature shall not have appropriated amounts sufficient for debt service, or (2) the 
28.22 	date of final payment of the principal of and interest on the appropriation bonds.
28.23 		Subd. 7.Appropriation of proceeds. The proceeds of appropriation bonds and 
28.24 	interest credited to the special appropriation stadium bond proceeds fund are appropriated 
28.25 	to the commissioner for payment of capital expenses, debt service on outstanding 
28.26 	indebtedness of the state, operating and capital reserves of the authority, and the funding 
28.27 	of debt service reserves for the appropriation bonds, each as permitted by state and federal 
28.28 	law, and nonsalary expenses incurred in conjunction with the sale of the appropriation 
28.29 	bonds, and such proceeds may be granted, loaned, or otherwise provided to the authority 
28.30 	for the public purpose provided by subdivision 2, paragraph (a).
28.31 		Subd. 8.Commissioner; determination of available revenues. (a) By March 15 
28.32 	of each fiscal year, the commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue, 
28.33 	shall determine the estimated increase in revenues received from taxes imposed under 
28.34 	chapter 297E over the estimated revenues under the February 2012 revenue forecast for 
28.35 	that fiscal year. For fiscal years after fiscal year 2015, the commissioner shall use the 
29.1 	February 2012 revenue forecast for fiscal year 2015 as the baseline. All calculations under 
29.2 	this paragraph must be made net of estimated refunds of the taxes required to be paid.
29.3 	(b) Available revenues for purposes of subdivision 9 and section 297E.02, 
29.4 	subdivision 12, equal the amount determined under paragraph (a), less the following 
29.5 	amounts for the fiscal year:
29.6 	(1) the appropriation to principal and interest on appropriation bonds under 
29.7 	paragraph (a);
29.8 	(2) the appropriation to make the payments required under section 473J.13, 
29.9 	subdivision 2;
29.10 	(3) the appropriation to make the payments required under section 473J.13, 
29.11 	subdivision 4, paragraph (c);
29.12 	(4) the appropriations under article 5, section 40, paragraph (a), for administration 
29.13 	and any successor appropriation;
29.14 	(5) the reduction in revenues resulting from the sales tax exemptions under section 
29.15 	297A.68, subdivision 43;
29.16 	(6) reimbursements authorized by section 473J.15, subdivision 2; and
29.17 	(7) payment of compulsive gambling appropriations under article 5, section 40, 
29.18 	paragraph (b), and any successor appropriation.
29.19 	(c) Available revenues, as determined under paragraph (b), are allocated:
29.20 	(1) .. percent to be used for appropriations under paragraph (b); and
29.21 	(2) .. percent for payment of gambling tax rebates or gambling tax reductions under 
29.22 	chapter 297E.
29.23 	(d) The provisions of this subdivision apply only after the issuance of appropriation 
29.24 	bonds under subdivision 2.
29.25 		Subd. 9.Appropriation for debt service and other purposes. (a) The amount 
29.26 	needed to pay principal and interest on appropriation bonds issued under this section is 
29.27 	appropriated each year from the general fund to the commissioner, subject to repeal, 
29.28 	unallotment under section 16A.152, or cancellation otherwise pursuant to subdivision 6, 
29.29 	for deposit into the bond payment accounts established for such purpose in the special 
29.30 	appropriation stadium bond proceeds fund.
29.31 	(b) To the extent the commissioner determines revenues are available under the 
29.32 	provisions of subdivision 8, paragraph (b), for the fiscal year, the following amounts 
29.33 	are appropriated from the general fund:
29.34 	(1) to replenish the amount on deposit in any debt service reserve account established 
29.35 	with respect to the appropriation bonds to the debt service reserve requirement amount as 
29.36 	determined by order of the commissioner; and
30.1 	(2) to the extent not required under clause (1), for deposit to any general reserve 
30.2 	account established by order of the commissioner for application against any shortfall in 
30.3 	the amounts deposited to the general fund pursuant to article 4, section 1, subdivision 3, 
30.4 	paragraph (b), clauses (1), (2), (3), and (4).
30.5 		Subd. 10.Waiver of immunity. The waiver of immunity by the state provided for 
30.6 	by section 3.751, subdivision 1, shall be applicable to the appropriation bonds and any 
30.7 	ancillary contracts to which the commissioner is a party.
30.8 		Subd. 11.Validation. (a) Appropriation bonds issued under this section may be 
30.9 	validated in the manner provided by this subdivision. If comparable appropriation bonds 
30.10 	are judicially determined to be valid, nothing in this subdivision shall be construed 
30.11 	to prevent the sale or delivery of any appropriation bonds or notes without entry of a 
30.12 	judgment of validation by the Minnesota Supreme Court pursuant to this subdivision with 
30.13 	respect to the appropriation bonds authorized under this section.
30.14 	(b) Any appropriation bonds issued under this section that are validated shall be 
30.15 	validated in the manner provided by this subdivision.
30.16 	(c) The Minnesota Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction to determine the 
30.17 	validation of appropriation bonds and all matters connected therewith.
30.18 	(d) The commissioner may determine the commissioner's authority to issue 
30.19 	appropriation bonds and the legality of all proceedings in connection with issuing bonds. 
30.20 	For this purpose, a complaint shall be filed by the commissioner in the Minnesota Supreme 
30.21 	Court against the state and the taxpayers and citizens.
30.22 	(e) As a condition precedent to filing of a complaint for the validation of 
30.23 	appropriation bonds, the commissioner shall take action providing for the issuance of 
30.24 	appropriation bonds in accordance with law.
30.25 	(f) The complaint shall set out the state's authority to issue appropriation bonds, the 
30.26 	action or proceeding authorizing the issue and its adoption, all other essential proceedings 
30.27 	had or taken in connection with issuing bonds, the amount of the appropriation bonds to 
30.28 	be issued and the maximum interest they are to bear, and all other pertinent matters.
30.29 	(g) The Minnesota Supreme Court shall issue an order directed against the state and 
30.30 	taxpayers, citizens, and others having or claiming any right, title, or interest affected by 
30.31 	the issuance of appropriation bonds, or to be affected by the bonds, allowing all persons, 
30.32 	in general terms and without naming them, and the state through its attorney general, to 
30.33 	appear before the Minnesota Supreme Court at a designated time and place and show 
30.34 	why the complaint should not be granted and the proceedings and appropriation bonds 
30.35 	validated. A copy of the complaint and order shall be served on the attorney general at 
30.36 	least 20 days before the time fixed for hearing. The attorney general shall examine the 
31.1 	complaint, and, if it appears or there is reason to believe that it is defective, insufficient, or 
31.2 	untrue, or if in the opinion of the attorney general the issuance of the appropriation bonds 
31.3 	in question has not been duly authorized, defense shall be made by the attorney general as 
31.4 	the attorney general deems appropriate.
31.5 	(h) Before the date set for hearing, as directed by the Minnesota Supreme Court, 
31.6 	either the clerk of the Minnesota appellate courts or the commissioner shall publish a copy 
31.7 	of the order in a legal newspaper of general circulation in Ramsey County and the state, at 
31.8 	least once each week for two consecutive weeks, commencing with the first publication, 
31.9 	which shall not be less than 20 days before the date set for hearing. By this publication, 
31.10 	all taxpayers, citizens, and others having or claiming any right, title, or interest in the 
31.11 	state, are made parties defendant to the action and the Minnesota Supreme Court has 
31.12 	jurisdiction of them to the same extent as if named as defendants in the complaint and 
31.13 	personally served with process.
31.14 	(i) Any taxpayer, citizen, or person interested may become a party to the action by 
31.15 	moving against or pleading to the complaint at or before the time set for hearing. The 
31.16 	Minnesota Supreme Court shall determine all questions of law and fact and make orders 
31.17 	that will enable it to properly try and determine the action and render a final judgment 
31.18 	within 30 days of the hearing with the least possible delay.
31.19 	(j) If the judgment validates appropriation bonds, the judgment is forever conclusive 
31.20 	as to all matters adjudicated and as against all parties affected and all others having or 
31.21 	claiming any right, title, or interest affected by the issuance of appropriation bonds, or to 
31.22 	be affected in any way by issuing the bonds, and the validity of appropriation bonds or of 
31.23 	any revenues pledged for the payment of the bonds, or of the proceedings authorizing the 
31.24 	issuance of the bonds, including any remedies provided for their collection, shall never 
31.25 	be called in question in any court by any person or party.
31.26 	(k)(1) Appropriation bonds, when validated under this section, shall have stamped 
31.27 	or written on the bonds, by the proper officers of the state issuing them, a statement 
31.28 	in substantially the following form: "This appropriation bond is one of a series of 
31.29 	appropriation bonds which were validated by judgment of the Supreme Court of the State 
31.30 	of Minnesota, rendered on â€¦â€¦. , ....... (year)"
31.31 	(2) A certified copy of the judgment or decree shall be received as evidence in any 
31.32 	court in this state.
31.33 	(l) The costs shall be paid by the state, except when a taxpayer, citizen, or other 
31.34 	person contests the action or intervenes, the court may tax the whole or any part of the 
31.35 	costs against the person that is equitable.
32.1 	(m) A justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court is not disqualified in any validation 
32.2 	action because the justice is a landowner or taxpayer of the state.

32.3 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 32.4 	(a) $6,000,000 is annually appropriated from the general fund for fiscal years 2016 
32.5 	to 2021 to the commissioner of management and budget for a grant to the Minnesota 
32.6 	Stadium Authority for the operating costs of the stadium under article 1.
32.7 	(b) $1,500,000 is annually appropriated from the general fund for fiscal years 2016 
32.8 	to 2021 to the commissioner of management and budget for a grant to the Minnesota 
32.9 	Stadium Authority for capital costs of the stadium under article 1.
32.10 	(c) The appropriations in paragraphs (a) and (b) are subject to an annual adjustment 
32.11 	specified in Minnesota Statutes, section 473J.03, subdivision 2.
32.12 	(d) If state appropriation bonds have not been issued under Minnesota Statutes, 
32.13 	section 16A.965, amounts not to exceed the increased revenues estimated by the 
32.14 	commissioner of management and budget under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.965, 
32.15 	subdivision 8, paragraph (a), are appropriated to the commissioner of management and 
32.16 	budget to make grants to the Minnesota Stadium Authority for stadium costs as defined 
32.17 	under Minnesota Statutes, section 473J.03, subdivision 9.

32.18 	ARTICLE 3
32.19 	CONFORMING CHANGES

32.20 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 3.971, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
32.21 		Subd. 6.Financial audits. The legislative auditor shall audit the financial 
32.22 	statements of the state of Minnesota required by section 16A.50 and, as resources permit, 
32.23 	shall audit Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, the University of Minnesota, state 
32.24 	agencies, departments, boards, commissions, courts, and other state organizations subject 
32.25 	to audit by the legislative auditor, including the State Agricultural Society, Agricultural 
32.26 	Utilization Research Institute, Enterprise Minnesota, Inc., Minnesota Historical 
32.27 	Society, Labor Interpretive Center, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, 
32.28 	Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, Metropolitan Airports Commission, and 
32.29 	Metropolitan Mosquito Control District. Financial audits must be conducted according to 
32.30 	generally accepted government auditing standards. The legislative auditor shall see that 
32.31 	all provisions of law respecting the appropriate and economic use of public funds are 
32.32 	complied with and may, as part of a financial audit or separately, investigate allegations 
32.33 	of noncompliance.

33.1 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 13.55, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
33.2 		Subdivision 1.Not public classification. The following data received, created, or 
33.3 	maintained by or for publicly owned and operated convention facilities, or civic center 
33.4 	authorities, or the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission are classified as nonpublic 
33.5 	data pursuant to section 13.02, subdivision 9; or private data on individuals pursuant 
33.6 	to section 13.02, subdivision 12:
33.7 	(a) a letter or other documentation from any person who makes inquiry to or who is 
33.8 	contacted by the facility regarding the availability of the facility for staging events;
33.9 	(b) identity of firms and corporations which contact the facility;
33.10 	(c) type of event which they wish to stage in the facility;
33.11 	(d) suggested terms of rentals; and
33.12 	(e) responses of authority staff to these inquiries.

33.13 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 340A.404, subdivision 1, is 
33.14 	amended to read:
33.15 		Subdivision 1.Cities. (a) A city may issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license to 
33.16 	the following establishments located within its jurisdiction:
33.17 	(1) hotels;
33.18 	(2) restaurants;
33.19 	(3) bowling centers;
33.20 	(4) clubs or congressionally chartered veterans organizations with the approval of 
33.21 	the commissioner, provided that the organization has been in existence for at least three 
33.22 	years and liquor sales will only be to members and bona fide guests, except that a club 
33.23 	may permit the general public to participate in a wine tasting conducted at the club under 
33.24 	section 340A.419; and
33.25 	(5) sports facilities located on land owned by the Metropolitan Sports Commission; 
33.26 	and
33.27 	(6) exclusive liquor stores.
33.28 	(b) A city may issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license, an on-sale wine license, 
33.29 	or an on-sale malt liquor license to a theater within the city, notwithstanding any law, local 
33.30 	ordinance, or charter provision. A license issued under this paragraph authorizes sales on 
33.31 	all days of the week to persons attending events at the theater.
33.32 	(c) A city may issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license, an on-sale wine license, 
33.33 	or an on-sale malt liquor license to a convention center within the city, notwithstanding 
33.34 	any law, local ordinance, or charter provision. A license issued under this paragraph 
33.35 	authorizes sales on all days of the week to persons attending events at the convention 
34.1 	center. This paragraph does not apply to convention centers located in the seven-county 
34.2 	metropolitan area.
34.3 	(d) A city may issue an on-sale wine license and an on-sale malt liquor license to 
34.4 	a person who is the owner of a summer collegiate league baseball team, or to a person 
34.5 	holding a concessions or management contract with the owner, for beverage sales at a 
34.6 	ballpark or stadium located within the city for the purposes of summer collegiate league 
34.7 	baseball games at the ballpark or stadium, notwithstanding any law, local ordinance, or 
34.8 	charter provision. A license issued under this paragraph authorizes sales on all days of the 
34.9 	week to persons attending baseball games at the ballpark or stadium.

34.10 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 352.01, subdivision 2a, is amended to read:
34.11 		Subd. 2a.Included employees. (a) "State employee" includes:
34.12 	(1) employees of the Minnesota Historical Society;
34.13 	(2) employees of the State Horticultural Society;
34.14 	(3) employees of the Minnesota Crop Improvement Association;
34.15 	(4) employees of the adjutant general whose salaries are paid from federal funds and 
34.16 	who are not covered by any federal civilian employees retirement system;
34.17 	(5) employees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities who are employed 
34.18 	under the university or college activities program;
34.19 	(6) currently contributing employees covered by the system who are temporarily 
34.20 	employed by the legislature during a legislative session or any currently contributing 
34.21 	employee employed for any special service as defined in subdivision 2b, clause (8);
34.22 	(7) employees of the legislature who are appointed without a limit on the duration 
34.23 	of their employment and persons employed or designated by the legislature or by a 
34.24 	legislative committee or commission or other competent authority to conduct a special 
34.25 	inquiry, investigation, examination, or installation;
34.26 	(8) trainees who are employed on a full-time established training program 
34.27 	performing the duties of the classified position for which they will be eligible to receive 
34.28 	immediate appointment at the completion of the training period;
34.29 	(9) employees of the Minnesota Safety Council;
34.30 	(10) any employees who are on authorized leave of absence from the Transit 
34.31 	Operating Division of the former Metropolitan Transit Commission and who are employed 
34.32 	by the labor organization which is the exclusive bargaining agent representing employees 
34.33 	of the Transit Operating Division;
34.34 	(11) employees of the Metropolitan Council, Metropolitan Parks and Open Space 
34.35 	Commission, Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, or Metropolitan Mosquito 
35.1 	Control Commission unless excluded under subdivision 2b or are covered by another 
35.2 	public pension fund or plan under section 473.415, subdivision 3;
35.3 	(12) judges of the Tax Court;
35.4 	(13) personnel who were employed on June 30, 1992, by the University of 
35.5 	Minnesota in the management, operation, or maintenance of its heating plant facilities, 
35.6 	whose employment transfers to an employer assuming operation of the heating plant 
35.7 	facilities, so long as the person is employed at the University of Minnesota heating plant 
35.8 	by that employer or by its successor organization;
35.9 	(14) personnel who are employed as seasonal employees in the classified or 
35.10 	unclassified service;
35.11 	(15) persons who are employed by the Department of Commerce as a peace officer 
35.12 	in the Insurance Fraud Prevention Division under section 45.0135 who have attained the 
35.13 	mandatory retirement age specified in section 43A.34, subdivision 4;
35.14 	(16) employees of the University of Minnesota unless excluded under subdivision 
35.15 	2b, clause (3);
35.16 	(17) employees of the Middle Management Association whose employment began 
35.17 	after July 1, 2007, and to whom section 352.029 does not apply; and
35.18 	(18) employees of the Minnesota Government Engineers Council to whom section 
35.19 	352.029 does not apply.
35.20 	(b) Employees specified in paragraph (a), clause (13), are included employees under 
35.21 	paragraph (a) if employer and employee contributions are made in a timely manner in the 
35.22 	amounts required by section 352.04. Employee contributions must be deducted from 
35.23 	salary. Employer contributions are the sole obligation of the employer assuming operation 
35.24 	of the University of Minnesota heating plant facilities or any successor organizations to 
35.25 	that employer.

35.26 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 473.121, subdivision 5a, is amended to read:
35.27 		Subd. 5a.Metropolitan agency. "Metropolitan agency" means the Metropolitan 
35.28 	Parks and Open Space Commission, and the Metropolitan Airports Commission, and 
35.29 	Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission.

35.30 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 473.164, is amended to read:
35.31 	473.164 SPORTS, AIRPORT COMMISSIONS TO PAY COUNCIL COSTS.
35.32 		Subdivision 1.Annually reimburse. The Metropolitan Sports Facilities 
35.33 	Commission and the Metropolitan Airports Commission shall annually reimburse the 
35.34 	council for costs incurred by the council in the discharge of its responsibilities relating to 
36.1 	the commission. The costs may be charged against any revenue sources of the commission 
36.2 	as determined by the commission.
36.3 		Subd. 2.Estimates, budget, transfer. On or before May 1 of each year, the council 
36.4 	shall transmit to each the commission an estimate of the costs which the council will 
36.5 	incur in the discharge of its responsibilities related to the commission in the next budget 
36.6 	year including, without limitation, costs in connection with the preparation, review, 
36.7 	implementation and defense of plans, programs and budgets of the commission. Each The
36.8 	commission shall include the estimates in its budget for the next budget year and may 
36.9 	transmit its comments concerning the estimated amount to the council during the budget 
36.10 	review process. Prior to December 15 of each year, the amount budgeted by each the
36.11 	commission for the next budget year may be changed following approval by the council. 
36.12 	During each budget year, the commission shall transfer budgeted funds to the council in 
36.13 	advance when requested by the council.
36.14 		Subd. 3.Final statement. At the conclusion of each budget year, the council, in 
36.15 	cooperation with each the commission, shall adopt a final statement of costs incurred by the 
36.16 	council for each the commission. Where costs incurred in the budget year have exceeded 
36.17 	the amount budgeted, each the commission shall transfer to the council the additional 
36.18 	moneys needed to pay the amount of the costs in excess of the amount budgeted, and shall 
36.19 	include a sum in its next budget. Any excess of budgeted costs over actual costs may be 
36.20 	retained by the council and applied to the payment of budgeted costs in the next year.

36.21 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 473.565, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
36.22 		Subdivision 1.In MSRS; exceptions. All employees of the former commission 
36.23 	shall be members of the Minnesota State Retirement System with respect to service 
36.24 	rendered on or after May 17, 1977, except as provided in this section.

36.25 	Sec. 8.  REPEALER.
 36.26 	Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 473.551; 473.552; 473.553, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 
36.27 	4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13; 473.556, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 
36.28 	13, 14, 16, and 17; 473.561; 473.564, subdivisions 2 and 3; 473.572; 473.581; 473.592, 
36.29 	subdivision 1; 473.595; 473.598; 473.599; and 473.76, are repealed.

36.30 	Sec. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 36.31 	This article is effective June 30, 2013.

37.1 	ARTICLE 4
37.2 	MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER

37.3 	Section 1. Laws 1986, chapter 396, section 4, as amended by Laws 1987, chapter 55, 
37.4 	sections 5 and 6, and Laws 2009, chapter 88, article 4, sections 11 and 12, is amended to 
37.5 	read:
37.6 	Sec. 4. SALES AND USE TAX.
 37.7 		Subdivision 1.Imposition. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 477A.016, 
37.8 	or any other contrary provision of law, ordinance, or city charter, upon approval by 
37.9 	the city's board of estimate and taxation by a vote of at least five members, the city of 
37.10 	Minneapolis may by ordinance impose an additional sales tax of up to one-half of one 
37.11 	percent on sales taxable pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, chapter 297A that occur within 
37.12 	the city, and may also by ordinance impose an additional compensating use tax of up to 
37.13 	one-half of one percent on uses of property within the city, the sale of which would be 
37.14 	subject to the additional sales tax but for the fact such property was sold outside the city. 
37.15 	The tax may not be imposed on gross receipts from sales of intoxicating liquor that are 
37.16 	exempt from taxation under sections 297A.25 to 297A.257 or other any provision of 
37.17 	chapter 297A exempting sales of intoxicating liquor and use from taxation, including 
37.18 	amendments adopted after enactment of this act.
37.19 	For purposes of this subdivision, sales that occur within the city shall not include (a) 
37.20 	the sale of tangible personal property (i) which, without intermediate use, is shipped or 
37.21 	transported outside Minneapolis by the purchaser and thereafter used in a trade or business 
37.22 	or is stored, processed, fabricated or manufactured into, attached to or incorporated into 
37.23 	other tangible personal property transported or shipped outside Minneapolis and thereafter 
37.24 	used in a trade or business outside Minneapolis, and which is not thereafter returned to a 
37.25 	point within Minneapolis, except in the course of interstate or intrastate commerce (storage 
37.26 	shall not constitute intermediate use); or (ii) which the seller delivers to a common carrier 
37.27 	for delivery outside Minneapolis, places in the United States mail or parcel post directed 
37.28 	to the purchaser outside Minneapolis, or delivers to the purchaser outside Minneapolis by 
37.29 	means of the seller's own delivery vehicles, and which is not thereafter returned to a point 
37.30 	within Minneapolis, except in the course of interstate or intrastate commerce; or (b) sales 
37.31 	which would be described in clause (e) or (u) of Minnesota Statutes, section 297A.25, 
37.32 	subdivision 1 297A.68, subdivision 11 or 16, if the word "Minneapolis" were substituted 
37.33 	for the words "Minnesota" or "state of Minnesota" in such clauses subdivisions. A tax 
37.34 	may be imposed under this section only if the taxes imposed under section 5 are imposed 
37.35 	at the maximum rate allowed under that section. The tax authorized by this section shall 
38.1 	be imposed, until December 31, 2046. The tax may be imposed and may be adjusted 
38.2 	periodically by the city council in conformity with Minnesota Statutes, section 297A.99, 
38.3 	subdivision 12, such that the rate imposed, rounded to the next highest one-tenth of one 
38.4 	percent, does not exceed the rate estimated to be required to produceproduces revenue 
38.5 	sufficient to finance the costs purposes described in subdivision subdivisions 3 and 4, but 
38.6 	in no case may the rate exceed one-half of one percent.
38.7 		Subd. 2.Enforcement; collection. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), 
38.8 	these taxes shall be subject to the same interest penalties and other rules imposed 
38.9 	under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 297A. The commissioner of revenue may enter into 
38.10 	appropriate agreements with the city to provide for collection of these taxes by the state 
38.11 	on behalf of the city. The commissioner may charge the city a reasonable fee for its 
38.12 	collection from the proceeds of any taxes, as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 
38.13 	297A.99, subdivision 9.
38.14 	(b) A taxpayer located outside of the city of Minneapolis who collects use tax under 
38.15 	this section in an amount that does not exceed $10 in a reporting period is not required to 
38.16 	remit that tax until the amount of use tax collected is $10.
38.17 		Subd. 3.Use of property. (a) From the revenues collected by the commissioner 
38.18 	of revenue from the taxes levied under subdivision 1 or section 5, the commissioner of 
38.19 	revenue shall apply the tax proceeds as follows, notwithstanding the limitations provided 
38.20 	in Minnesota Statutes, section 297A.99, subdivision 11, on the use of proceeds:
38.21 	(1) the commissioner must deduct the costs of collecting and administering the 
38.22 	taxes, according to the applicable state laws and agreements between the commissioner 
38.23 	of revenue and the city. For the taxes imposed under subdivision 1, the commissioner 
38.24 	of revenue must deduct a proportionate share of the cost of collection as described in 
38.25 	Minnesota Statutes, section 297A.99, subdivision 11;
38.26 	(2) after deducting the costs in clause (1), the commissioner of revenue must deduct 
38.27 	refunds of any of these taxes due to taxpayers, if any;
38.28 	(3) after making the deductions provided in clause (2), notwithstanding the 
38.29 	provisions of any agreement between the commissioner of revenue and the city providing 
38.30 	for collection and remittance of these taxes, the commissioner of revenue must deposit to 
38.31 	the general fund the amounts specified in paragraph (b); and
38.32 	(4) after depositing to the general fund under clause (3) as specified in paragraph (b), 
38.33 	the commissioner of revenue must remit the remainder to the city for the uses specified in 
38.34 	paragraph (c).
38.35 	(b) The commissioner of revenue must deposit to the general fund the following 
38.36 	amounts, as required by paragraph (a), clause (3):
39.1 	(1) for state bond debt service support beginning in calendar year 2021, and for each 
39.2 	calendar year thereafter through calendar year 2046, proportionate amounts periodically 
39.3 	so that not later than December 31, 2046, an aggregate annual amount equal to a present 
39.4 	value of $150,000,000 shall have been deposited in the general fund. To determine 
39.5 	aggregate present value, the commissioner of revenue must consult with the commissioner 
39.6 	of management and budget regarding the present value dates, discount rate or rates, and 
39.7 	schedules of annual amounts. The present value date or dates must be based on the date 
39.8 	or dates bonds are sold under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.965, or the date or dates 
39.9 	other state funds, if any, are deposited into the construction fund. The discount rate or 
39.10 	rates must be based on the all in true interest cost of the bonds issued under Minnesota 
39.11 	Statutes, section 16A.965, or equivalent 30-year bond index, as determined by the 
39.12 	commissioner of management and budget. The schedule of annual amounts must be 
39.13 	certified to the commissioner of revenue by the commissioner of management and budget 
39.14 	and the finance officer of the city;
39.15 	(2) for the capital improvement reserve appropriation to stadium authority beginning 
39.16 	in calendar year 2021, and for each calendar year thereafter through calendar year 2046, 
39.17 	proportionate amounts periodically so that not later than January 1, 2022, and as of January 
39.18 	1 of each following year, an aggregate annual amount equal to the amount paid by the state 
39.19 	for calendar year 2021, under Minnesota Statutes, section 473J.13, subdivision 4, increased 
39.20 	each year by an annual adjustment factor shall have been deposited in the general fund;
39.21 	(3) for the operating expense appropriation to stadium authority beginning in 
39.22 	calendar year 2021, and for each calendar year thereafter through calendar year 2046, 
39.23 	proportionate amounts periodically so that not later than January 1, 2022, and as of January 
39.24 	1 of each following year, an aggregate annual amount equal to the amount paid by the state 
39.25 	for calendar year 2021 under Minnesota Statutes, section 473J.13, subdivision 2, increased 
39.26 	each year by an annual adjustment factor shall have been deposited in the general fund;
39.27 	(4) for recapture of state advances for capital improvements and operating expenses 
39.28 	for calendar years 2016 through 2020 beginning in calendar year 2021, and for each 
39.29 	calendar year thereafter until all amounts under this clause have been paid, proportionate 
39.30 	amounts periodically shall be deposited to the general fund so that an aggregate amount 
39.31 	equal to the present value of all amounts granted to the authority under article 1, section 
39.32 	11, subdivision 13, shall have been deposited in the general fund. To determine the present 
39.33 	value of the amounts granted to the authority and the present value of amounts deposited 
39.34 	to the general fund under this clause, the commissioner of revenue shall consult with the 
39.35 	commissioner of management and budget regarding the present value dates, discount rate 
39.36 	or rates, and schedule of annual amounts. The present value dates shall be based on 
40.1 	the dates state funds are paid to the authority, or the dates the commissioner of revenue 
40.2 	deposits taxes for purposes of this clause to the general fund. The discount rates must be 
40.3 	based on the reasonably equivalent cost of state funds as determined by the commissioner 
40.4 	of management and budget. The schedule of annual amounts must be revised to reflect 
40.5 	amounts paid under article 1, section 11, subdivision 13, and taxes deposited to the general 
40.6 	fund from time to time under this clause, and the schedule and revised schedules must 
40.7 	be certified to the commissioner of revenue by the commissioner of management and 
40.8 	budget and the finance officer of the city; and
40.9 	(5) to capture increases in taxes imposed under subdivision 1 and section 5, for the 
40.10 	benefit of the stadium authority, beginning in calendar year 2013 and for each calendar 
40.11 	year thereafter through 2046, there shall be deposited to the general fund by February 15 
40.12 	of each following year, amounts calculated by the commissioner of revenue under this 
40.13 	clause. For each year, the commissioner of revenue shall determine the excess, if any, 
40.14 	of these taxes received by the commissioner of revenue over the benchmark scheduled 
40.15 	amounts of these taxes, as described in this section. The benchmark scheduled amounts 
40.16 	for each year shall be based on the actual amount of these taxes for calendar year 2011 
40.17 	inflated for each subsequent year at an annual rate of two percent, according to a schedule 
40.18 	certified to the commissioner of revenue by the commissioner of management and budget 
40.19 	and the finance officer of the city. The amounts to be deposited to the general fund by the 
40.20 	commissioner of revenue for each year shall be:
40.21 	(i) zero for the amount of these taxes for the year up to a scheduled benchmark of 
40.22 	$1,000,000, inflated at two percent per year, in excess of the taxes for calendar year 2011;
40.23 	(ii) 50 percent times the difference, if any, by which the amount of these taxes for 
40.24 	the year exceeds the scheduled benchmark in clause (i), as inflated, but not greater than 
40.25 	a scheduled benchmark of $3,000,000, inflated at two percent per year, in excess of the 
40.26 	taxes for calendar year 2011; and
40.27 	(iii) 25 percent times the difference, if any, by which the amount of these taxes for 
40.28 	the year exceeds the scheduled benchmark of $3,000,000, inflated at two percent per year, 
40.29 	in excess of the taxes for calendar year 2011.
40.30 	(c) The annual adjustment factor for purposes of this section and section .. for any 
40.31 	year shall be equal to the increase, if any, in the amount of these taxes received by the 
40.32 	commissioner of revenue in the preceding year over the amount received in the year prior 
40.33 	to the preceding year, expressed as a percentage of the amount received in the year prior to 
40.34 	the preceding year; provided, that the adjustment factor for any year shall not be less than 
40.35 	zero percent nor more than five percent.
41.1 	(d) After application of taxes collected by the commissioner of revenue as provided 
41.2 	in paragraphs (a), clauses (1) to (3); and (b), revenues received from the tax may only 
41.3 	be used:
41.4 	(1) to pay costs of collection;
41.5 	(2) (1) to pay or secure the payment of any principal of, premium or interest on 
41.6 	bonds issued in accordance with this act;
41.7 	(3) (2) to pay costs to acquire, design, equip, construct, improve, maintain, operate, 
41.8 	administer, or promote the convention center or related facilities, including financing 
41.9 	costs related to them;
41.10 	(4) (3) to pay reasonable and appropriate costs determined by the city to replace 
41.11 	housing and the ice arena removed from the site; 
41.12 	(5) (4) to maintain reserves for the foregoing purposes deemed reasonable and 
41.13 	appropriate by the city; and
41.14 	(6) (5) to fund projects and for other purposes under subdivision 4.
41.15 	Money for replacement housing shall be made available by the city only for new 
41.16 	construction, conversion of nonresidential buildings, and for rehabilitation of vacant 
41.17 	residential structures, only if all of the units in the newly constructed building, converted 
41.18 	nonresidential building, or rehabilitated residential structure are to be used for replacement 
41.19 	housing.
41.20 		Subd. 4.Minneapolis downtown and neighborhood projects. (a) For revenues 
41.21 	collected in calendar years 2009 and 2010, to the extent that revenues from the tax 
41.22 	authorized in subdivision 1 exceeds the amount needed to fund the purposes in subdivision 
41.23 	3, the city may use the excess revenue to fund any city services. The total amount used in 
41.24 	both years for this purpose may not exceed the total amount of aid and credit reductions 
41.25 	under Minnesota Statutes, sections 273.1384 and 477A.011 to 477A.014 in calendar years 
41.26 	2008, 2009, and 2010 due to a governor's unallotment or due to statutory reductions.
41.27 	(b) Beginning with revenues collected in calendar year 2011, to the extent that 
41.28 	revenues from the tax taxes authorized in subdivision 1 exceeds or in section 5 exceed
41.29 	the amount needed to fund the purposes in subdivision 3, the city may use the excess 
41.30 	revenue in any year to fund capital projects to further residential, cultural, commercial, 
41.31 	and economic development in both downtown Minneapolis and the Minneapolis 
41.32 	neighborhoods, to fund other city expenditures in support of the capital projects, or 
41.33 	for other economic development, provided the city may direct excess revenue first to 
41.34 	convention center debt, operations, capital improvements, and marketing. The city may 
41.35 	issue bonds to fund any such projects or improvements using these taxes or any other 
41.36 	available city resources to finance or secure the bonds.

42.1 	Sec. 2. Laws 1986, chapter 396, section 5, as amended by Laws 2001, First Special 
42.2 	Session chapter 5, article 12, section 87, is amended to read:
42.3 	Sec. 5. LIQUOR, LODGING, AND RESTAURANT TAXES.
 42.4 	The city may, by resolution, levy in addition to taxes authorized by other law:
42.5 	(1) a sales tax of not more than three percent on the gross receipts on retail on-sales 
42.6 	of intoxicating liquor and fermented malt beverages described in section 473.592
42.7 	occurring in the when sold at licensed on-sale liquor establishments and municipal liquor 
42.8 	stores located within the downtown taxing area, provided that this tax may not be imposed 
42.9 	if sales of intoxicating liquor and fermented malt beverages are exempt from taxation 
42.10 	under chapter 297A;
42.11 	(2) a sales tax of not more than three percent on the gross receipts from the furnishing 
42.12 	for consideration of lodging described in section 473.592 for a period of less than 30 days 
42.13 	at a hotel, motel, rooming house, tourist court, or trailer camp located within the city by a 
42.14 	hotel or motel which has more than 50 rooms available for lodging; the tax imposed under 
42.15 	this clause shall be at a rate that, when added to the sum of the rate of the sales tax imposed 
42.16 	under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 297A, the rate of the sales tax imposed under section 4, 
42.17 	and the rate of any other taxes on lodging in the city of Minneapolis, equals 13 percent; and
42.18 	(3) a sales tax of not more than three percent on the gross receipts on all sales of food 
42.19 	primarily for consumption on or off the premises by restaurants and places of refreshment 
42.20 	as defined by resolution of the city that occur within the downtown taxing area.
42.21 	The taxes authorized by this section shall be imposed until January 1, 2047. The taxes 
42.22 	shall be imposed and may be adjusted periodically by the city council such that the rates 
42.23 	imposed, produce revenue sufficient, together with the tax imposed under section 4, to 
42.24 	finance the purposes described in section 4, subdivisions 3 and 4. These taxes shall be 
42.25 	applied, first, as provided in section 4, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), clauses (1) to (3), 
42.26 	and then, solely to pay costs of collection and to pay or, secure, maintain, and fund the 
42.27 	payment of any principal of, premium on, and interest on any bonds or any costs referred 
42.28 	to other purposes in section 4, subdivision 3, paragraph (c); or 4. The commissioner of 
42.29 	revenue may enter into appropriate agreements with the city to provide for the collection 
42.30 	of these taxes by the state on behalf of the city. The commissioner may charge the city 
42.31 	a reasonable fee for its collection from the proceeds of any taxes. These taxes shall be 
42.32 	subject to the same interest penalties and enforcement provisions as the taxes imposed 
42.33 	under section 473.592 chapter 297A.

42.34 	Sec. 3. CHARTER LIMITATIONS NOT TO APPLY.
 43.1 	Any amounts expended, indebtedness or obligation incurred, or actions taken by 
43.2 	the city under this article are not deemed an expenditure or other use of city resources 
43.3 	within the meaning of any law or charter limitation. Notwithstanding any ordinance or 
43.4 	charter provision to the contrary, exercise by the city of its powers under this article does 
43.5 	not affect the amounts that the city may otherwise spend, borrow, tax, or receive under any 
43.6 	law. Any tax exemption established under this article shall not be deemed an expenditure 
43.7 	or other use of city resources within the meaning of any charter limitation.

43.8 	Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE; LOCAL APPROVAL.
 43.9 	This article is effective the day after the governing body of the City of Minneapolis 
43.10 	and its chief clerical officer comply with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivisions 
43.11 	2 and 3. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the city of Minneapolis and its chief 
43.12 	clerical officer have 30 calendar days following final enactment of this act, to comply with 
43.13 	Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivisions 2 and 3.

43.14 	Sec. 5. SEVERABILITY; SAVINGS.
 43.15 	If any part of this article is found to be invalid because it is in conflict with a 
43.16 	provision of the Minnesota Constitution or for any other reason, all other provisions of 
43.17 	this article shall remain valid and any rights, remedies, and privileges that have been 
43.18 	otherwise accrued by this article, shall remain in effect and may be proceeded with and 
43.19 	concluded under the provisions of this article.

43.20 	Sec. 6.  LOCAL SALES TAX REQUIREMENTS NOT TO APPLY.
 43.21 	 The taxes authorized under Laws 1986, chapter 396, sections 4 and 5, as amended, 
43.22 	are exempt from the requirements of Minnesota Statutes, section 297A.99, subdivisions 
43.23 	2 and 3.

43.24 	ARTICLE 5
43.25 	LAWFUL GAMBLING

43.26 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 3b, is amended to read:
43.27 		Subd. 3b.Bar operation. "Bar operation" means a method of selling and redeeming 
43.28 	disposable gambling equipment by an employee of the lessor within a leased premises 
43.29 	which is licensed for the on-sale of alcoholic beverages where such sales and redemptions 
43.30 	are made by an employee of the lessor from a common area where food and beverages 
43.31 	are also sold.

44.1 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 3c, is amended to read:
44.2 		Subd. 3c.Bar bingo. "Bar bingo" is a bingo occasion conducted at a permitted 
44.3 	premises in an area where intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent malt beverages are sold and 
44.4 	where the licensed organization conducts another form of lawful gambling. Bar bingo 
44.5 	does not include bingo games linked to other permitted premises.

44.6 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
44.7 		Subd. 5.Bingo occasion. "Bingo occasion" means a single gathering or session at 
44.8 	which a series of one or more successive bingo games is played. There is no limit on the 
44.9 	number of games conducted during a bingo occasion but. A bingo occasion must not last 
44.10 	longer than eight consecutive hours., except that linked bingo games played on electronic 
44.11 	bingo devices may be played during regular business hours of the permitted premises and 
44.12 	all play during this period is considered a bingo occasion for reporting purposes. For 
44.13 	permitted premises where the primary business is bingo, regular business hours shall be 
44.14 	defined as the hours between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m.

44.15 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 6a, is amended to read:
44.16 		Subd. 6a.Booth operation. "Booth operation" means a method of selling and 
44.17 	redeeming disposable gambling equipment by an employee of a licensed organization in 
44.18 	a premises the organization leases or owns where such sales and redemptions are made 
44.19 	within a separate enclosure that is distinct from areas where food and beverages are sold.

44.20 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 12a, is amended to read:
44.21 		Subd. 12a.Electronic bingo device. "Electronic bingo device" means an a 
44.22 	handheld and portable electronic device that:
44.23 	(a) is used by a bingo player to:
44.24 	(1) monitor bingo paper sheets or a facsimile of a bingo paper sheet when purchased 
44.25 	and played at the time and place of an organization's bingo occasion and which (1) 
44.26 	provides a means for bingo players to, or to play an electronic bingo game that is linked 
44.27 	with other permitted premises;
44.28 	(2) activate numbers announced by a bingo caller; (2) compares or displayed, and 
44.29 	to compare the numbers entered by the player to the bingo faces previously stored in 
44.30 	the memory of the device; and 
44.31 	(3) identifies identify a winning bingo pattern. or game requirement; and
44.32 	(4) play against other bingo players;
44.33 	(b) limits the play of bingo faces to 36 faces per game;
45.1 	(c) requires coded entry to activate play but does not allow the use of a coin, 
45.2 	currency, or tokens to be inserted to activate play;
45.3 	(d) may only be used for play against other bingo players in a bingo game;
45.4 	(e) has no additional function as an amusement or gambling device;
45.5 	(f) has the capability to ensure adequate levels of security and internal controls; and
45.6 	(g) has the capability to permit the board to electronically monitor the operation of 
45.7 	the device and the internal accounting systems.
45.8 	Electronic bingo device does not mean any device into which coin, currency, or tokens are 
45.9 	inserted to activate play.

45.10 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, is amended by adding a subdivision 
45.11 	to read:
45.12 		Subd. 12b.Electronic pull-tab device. "Electronic pull-tab device" means a 
45.13 	handheld and portable electronic device that:
45.14 	(a) is used to play one or more electronic pull-tab games;
45.15 	(b) requires coded entry to activate play but does not allow the use of coin, currency, 
45.16 	or tokens to be inserted to activate play;
45.17 	(c) allows a player the option to activate the opening of:
45.18 	(1) all tabs of a ticket at the same time; or 
45.19 	(2) each tab of a ticket separately;
45.20 	(d) records and maintains information pertaining to accumulated win credits that 
45.21 	may be applied to games in play or redeemed upon termination of play;
45.22 	(e) has no spinning symbols or other representations that mimic a video slot machine;
45.23 	(f) has no additional function as a gambling device;
45.24 	(g) may incorporate an amusement game feature as part of the pull-tab game but 
45.25 	may not require additional consideration for that feature or contain or award any points, 
45.26 	prizes, or other benefit for that feature;
45.27 	(h) may have auditory or visual enhancements to promote or provide information 
45.28 	about the game being played, provided the component does not affect the outcome of 
45.29 	a game or display the results of a game;
45.30 	(i) maintains, on nonresettable meters, a printable, permanent record of all 
45.31 	transactions involving each device and electronic pull-tab games played on the device; and
45.32 	(j) is not a pull-tab dispensing device as defined under subdivision 32a.

45.33 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, is amended by adding a subdivision 
45.34 	to read:
46.1 		Subd. 12c.Electronic pull-tab game. "Electronic pull-tab game" means a pull-tab 
46.2 	game containing:
46.3 	(a) facsimiles of pull-tab tickets that are played on an electronic pull-tab device;
46.4 	(b) a predetermined finite number of winning and losing tickets;
46.5 	(c) the same price for each ticket in the game;
46.6 	(d) a price paid by the player of not less than 25 cents per ticket;
46.7 	(e) tickets that are in conformance with applicable board rules for pull-tabs;
46.8 	(f) winning tickets that comply with prize limits under section 349.211;
46.9 	(g) a unique serial number that may not be regenerated;
46.10 	(h) an electronic flare that displays the game name, form number, predetermined 
46.11 	finite number of tickets in the game, and prize tier; and
46.12 	(i) no spinning symbols or other representations that mimic a video slot machine.

46.13 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, is amended by adding a subdivision 
46.14 	to read:
46.15 		Subd. 12d.Electronic pull-tab game system. "Electronic pull-tab game system" 
46.16 	means the equipment leased from a licensed distributor and used by a licensed organization 
46.17 	to conduct, manage, and record electronic pull-tab games, and to report and transmit the 
46.18 	game results as prescribed by the board and the Department of Revenue. The system must 
46.19 	provide security and access levels sufficient so that internal control objectives are met as 
46.20 	prescribed by the board. The system must contain a point of sale station.

46.21 	Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 18, is amended to read:
46.22 		Subd. 18.Gambling equipment. "Gambling equipment" means: gambling 
46.23 	equipment that is either disposable or permanent gambling equipment. 
46.24 	(a) Disposable gambling equipment includes the following:
46.25 	(1) bingo hard cards or paper sheets, including linked bingo paper sheets, devices for 
46.26 	selecting bingo numbers, electronic bingo devices,;
46.27 	(2) paper and electronic pull-tabs,;
46.28 	(3) jar tickets, paddle wheels, paddle wheel tables,;
46.29 	(4) paddle tickets, and paddle ticket cards,;
46.30 	(5) tipboards, and tipboard tickets,;and
46.31 	(6) promotional tickets that mimic a pull-tab or tipboard, pull-tab dispensing devices, 
46.32 	and programmable electronic devices that have no effect on the outcome of a game and 
46.33 	are used to provide a visual or auditory enhancement of a game.
46.34 	(b) Permanent gambling equipment includes the following:
47.1 	(1) devices for selecting bingo numbers;
47.2 	(2) electronic bingo devices;
47.3 	(3) electronic pull-tab devices;
47.4 	(4) pull-tab dispensing devices;
47.5 	(5) programmable electronic devices that have no effect on the outcome of a game 
47.6 	and are used to provide a visual or auditory enhancement of a game;
47.7 	(6) paddle wheels; and
47.8 	(7) paddle wheel tables.

47.9 	Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 25b, is amended to read:
47.10 		Subd. 25b.Linked bingo game provider. "Linked bingo game provider" means 
47.11 	any person who provides the means to link bingo prizes in a linked bingo game, who 
47.12 	provides linked bingo paper sheets to the participating organizations games, who provides 
47.13 	linked bingo prize management, and who provides the linked bingo game system.

47.14 	Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 25c, is amended to read:
47.15 		Subd. 25c.Linked bingo game system. "Linked bingo game system" means the 
47.16 	equipment used by the linked bingo provider to conduct, transmit, and track a linked 
47.17 	bingo game. The system must be approved by the board before its use in this state and 
47.18 	it must have dial-up or other the capability to permit the board to electronically monitor 
47.19 	its operation remotely. For linked electronic bingo games, the system includes electronic 
47.20 	bingo devices.

47.21 	Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 25d, is amended to read:
47.22 		Subd. 25d.Linked bingo prize pool. "Linked bingo prize pool" means the total 
47.23 	of all prize money that each participating organization has contributed to a linked bingo 
47.24 	game prize and includes any portion of the prize pool that is carried over from one 
47.25 	occasion game to another in a progressive linked bingo game.

47.26 	Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 29, is amended to read:
47.27 		Subd. 29.Paddle wheel. "Paddle wheel" means a vertical wheel marked off into 
47.28 	sections containing one or more numbers, and which, after being turned or spun, uses a 
47.29 	pointer or marker to indicate winning chances, and may only be used to determine a 
47.30 	winning number or numbers matching a winning paddle ticket purchased by a player. A 
47.31 	paddle wheel may be an electronic device that simulates a paddle wheel.

48.1 	Sec. 14. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 31, is amended to read:
48.2 		Subd. 31.Promotional ticket. A paper pull-tab ticket or paper tipboard ticket 
48.3 	created and printed by a licensed manufacturer with the words "no purchase necessary" and 
48.4 	"for promotional use only" and for which no consideration is given is a promotional ticket.

48.5 	Sec. 15. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.12, subdivision 32, is amended to read:
48.6 		Subd. 32.Pull-tab. "Pull-tab" means a single folded or banded paper ticket or a,
48.7 	multi-ply card with perforated break-open tabs, or a facsimile of a paper pull-tab ticket 
48.8 	used in conjunction with an electronic pull-tab device, the face of which is initially 
48.9 	covered to conceal one or more numbers or symbols, and where one or more of each set of 
48.10 	tickets or, cards, or facsimiles has been designated in advance as a winner.

48.11 	Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.13, is amended to read:
48.12 	349.13 LAWFUL GAMBLING.
48.13 	Lawful gambling is not a lottery or gambling within the meaning of sections 609.75
48.14 	to 609.76 if it is conducted under this chapter. A pull-tab dispensing device, electronic 
48.15 	bingo device, and electronic pull-tab device permitted under this chapter and by board 
48.16 	rule is not a gambling device within the meaning of sections 609.75 to 609.76 and chapter 
48.17 	299L. An electronic game device allowed under this chapter may not be a slot machine. 
48.18 	Electronic game devices, including but not limited to electronic bingo devices, electronic 
48.19 	paddle wheels, and electronic pull-tab devices authorized under this chapter, may only 
48.20 	be used in the conduct of lawful gambling permitted under this chapter and board rule 
48.21 	and may not display or simulate any other form of gambling or entertainment, except 
48.22 	as otherwise allowed under this chapter. 

48.23 	Sec. 17. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.151, subdivision 4b, is amended to read:
48.24 		Subd. 4b.Pull-tab sales from dispensing devices. (a) The board may by rule 
48.25 	authorize but not require the use of pull-tab dispensing devices.
48.26 	(b) Rules adopted under paragraph (a):
48.27 	(1) must limit the number of pull-tab dispensing devices on any permitted premises 
48.28 	to three; and
48.29 	(2) must limit the use of pull-tab dispensing devices to a permitted premises which is 
48.30 	(i) a licensed premises for on-sales of intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent malt beverages; 
48.31 	or (ii) a premises where bingo is conducted and admission is restricted to persons 18 
48.32 	years or older.
49.1 	(c) Notwithstanding rules adopted under paragraph (b), pull-tab dispensing devices 
49.2 	may be used in establishments licensed for the off-sale of intoxicating liquor, other than 
49.3 	drugstores and general food stores licensed under section 340A.405, subdivision 1.

49.4 	Sec. 18. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.151, subdivision 4c, is amended to read:
49.5 		Subd. 4c.Electronic bingo devices. (a) The board may by rule authorize but not 
49.6 	require the use of electronic bingo devices.
49.7 	(b) Rules adopted under paragraph (a):
49.8 	(1) must limit the number of bingo faces that can be played using an electronic 
49.9 	bingo device to 36;
49.10 	(2) must require that an electronic bingo device be used with corresponding bingo 
49.11 	paper sheets or a facsimile, printed at the point of sale, as approved by the board;
49.12 	(3) must require that the electronic bingo device site system have dial-up capability 
49.13 	to permit the board to remotely monitor the operation of the device and the internal 
49.14 	accounting systems; and
49.15 	(4) must prohibit the price of a face played on an electronic bingo device from being 
49.16 	less than the price of a face on a bingo paper sheet sold at the same occasion.
49.17 	(b) The board, or the director if authorized by the board, may require the deactivation 
49.18 	of an electronic bingo device for violation of a law or rule and to implement any other 
49.19 	controls deemed necessary to ensure and maintain the integrity of electronic bingo devices 
49.20 	and the electronic bingo games played on the devices.

49.21 	Sec. 19. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.151, is amended by adding a subdivision 
49.22 	to read:
49.23 		Subd. 4d.Electronic pull-tab devices and electronic pull-tab game system. (a) 
49.24 	The board may adopt rules it deems necessary to ensure the integrity of electronic pull-tab 
49.25 	devices, the electronic pull-tab games played on the devices, and the electronic pull-tab 
49.26 	game system necessary to operate them.
49.27 	(b) The board may not require an organization to use electronic pull-tab devices.
49.28 	(c) Before authorizing the lease or sale of electronic pull-tab devices and the 
49.29 	electronic pull-tab game system, the board shall examine electronic pull-tab devices 
49.30 	allowed under section 349.12, subdivision 12b. The board may contract for the 
49.31 	examination of the game system and electronic pull-tab devices and may require a working 
49.32 	model to be transported to locations the board designates for testing, examination, and 
49.33 	analysis. The manufacturer must pay all costs of any testing, examination, analysis, and 
49.34 	transportation of the model. The system must be approved by the board before its use in 
50.1 	the state and must have the capability to permit the board to electronically monitor its 
50.2 	operation and internal accounting systems. 
50.3 	(d) The board may require a manufacturer to submit a certificate from an independent 
50.4 	testing laboratory approved by the board to perform testing services, stating that the 
50.5 	equipment has been tested, analyzed, and meets the standards required in this chapter 
50.6 	and any applicable board rules.
50.7 	(e) The board, or the director if authorized by the board, may require the deactivation 
50.8 	of an electronic pull-tab device for violation of a law or rule and to implement any other 
50.9 	controls deemed necessary to ensure and maintain the integrity of electronic pull-tab 
50.10 	devices and the electronic pull-tab games played on the devices.

50.11 	Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.161, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
50.12 		Subdivision 1.Prohibited acts; licenses required. (a) No person may:
50.13 	(1) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state other 
50.14 	than for lawful gambling exempt or excluded from licensing, except to an organization 
50.15 	licensed for lawful gambling;
50.16 	(2) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state without 
50.17 	having obtained a distributor license or a distributor salesperson license under this section 
50.18 	except that an organization authorized to conduct bingo by the board may loan bingo 
50.19 	hard cards and devices for selecting bingo numbers to another organization authorized to 
50.20 	conduct bingo and a linked bingo game provider may provide electronic bingo devices for 
50.21 	linked electronic bingo games;
50.22 	(3) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state that is 
50.23 	not purchased or obtained from a manufacturer or distributor licensed under this chapter; or
50.24 	(4) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state that 
50.25 	has the same serial number as another item of gambling equipment of the same type sold 
50.26 	or offered for sale or furnished for use in the state by that distributor.
50.27 	(b) No licensed distributor salesperson may sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling 
50.28 	equipment for use within the state without being employed by a licensed distributor or 
50.29 	owning a distributor license.
50.30 	(c) No distributor or distributor salesperson may also be licensed as a linked bingo 
50.31 	game provider under section 349.1635.

50.32 	Sec. 21. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.161, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
51.1 		Subd. 5.Prohibition. (a) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or other employee 
51.2 	of a distributor, may also be a wholesale distributor of alcoholic beverages or an employee 
51.3 	of a wholesale distributor of alcoholic beverages.
51.4 	(b) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, or 
51.5 	other employee of a distributor, may: (1) be involved in the conduct of lawful gambling 
51.6 	by an organization; (2) keep or assist in the keeping of an organization's financial records, 
51.7 	accounts, and inventories; or (3) prepare or assist in the preparation of tax forms and other 
51.8 	reporting forms required to be submitted to the state by an organization.
51.9 	(c) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, 
51.10 	or other employee of a distributor may provide a lessor of gambling premises any 
51.11 	compensation, gift, gratuity, premium, or other thing of value.
51.12 	(d) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, or 
51.13 	other employee of a distributor may provide an employee or agent of the organization 
51.14 	any compensation, gift, gratuity, premium, or other thing of value greater than $25 per 
51.15 	organization in a calendar year.
51.16 	(e) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, or 
51.17 	other employee of a distributor may participate in any gambling activity at any gambling 
51.18 	site or premises where gambling equipment purchased or leased from that distributor or 
51.19 	distributor salesperson is being used in the conduct of lawful gambling.
51.20 	(f) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, or 
51.21 	other employee of a distributor may alter or modify any gambling equipment, except to 
51.22 	add a "last ticket sold" prize sticker for a paper pull-tab game.
51.23 	(g) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, or 
51.24 	other employee of a distributor may: (1) recruit a person to become a gambling manager 
51.25 	of an organization or identify to an organization a person as a candidate to become 
51.26 	gambling manager for the organization; or (2) identify for an organization a potential 
51.27 	gambling location.
51.28 	(h) No distributor or distributor salesperson may purchase or lease gambling 
51.29 	equipment for resale or lease to a person for use within the state from any person not 
51.30 	licensed as a manufacturer under section 349.163, except for gambling equipment 
51.31 	returned from an organization licensed under section 349.16, or exempt or excluded from 
51.32 	licensing under section 349.166.
51.33 	(i) No distributor or distributor salesperson may sell gambling equipment, except 
51.34 	gambling equipment identified as a promotional ticket, to any person for use in Minnesota 
51.35 	other than (i) a licensed organization or organization excluded or exempt from licensing, 
51.36 	or (ii) the governing body of an Indian tribe.
52.1 	(j) No distributor or distributor salesperson may sell or otherwise provide a paper
52.2 	pull-tab or tipboard deal with the symbol required by section 349.163, subdivision 5, 
52.3 	paragraph (d), visible on the flare to any person other than in Minnesota to a licensed 
52.4 	organization or organization exempt from licensing.

52.5 	Sec. 22. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.162, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
52.6 		Subd. 5.Sales from facilities. (a) All gambling equipment purchased or possessed 
52.7 	by a licensed distributor for resale or lease to any person for use in Minnesota must, prior 
52.8 	to the equipment's resale or lease, be unloaded into a storage facility located in Minnesota 
52.9 	which the distributor owns or leases; and which has been registered, in advance and in 
52.10 	writing, with the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement as a storage facility of 
52.11 	the distributor. All unregistered gambling equipment and all unaffixed registration stamps 
52.12 	owned by, or in the possession of, a licensed distributor in the state of Minnesota shall be 
52.13 	stored at a storage facility which has been registered with the Division of Alcohol and 
52.14 	Gambling Enforcement. No gambling equipment may be moved from the facility unless 
52.15 	the gambling equipment has been first registered with the board or the Department of 
52.16 	Revenue. A distributor must notify the board of the method that it will use to sell and 
52.17 	transfer electronic pull-tab games to licensed organizations, and must receive approval of 
52.18 	the board before implementing or making changes to the approved method.
52.19 	(b) Notwithstanding section 349.163, subdivisions 5, 6, and 8, a licensed 
52.20 	manufacturer may ship into Minnesota approved or unapproved gambling equipment if the 
52.21 	licensed manufacturer ships the gambling equipment to a Minnesota storage facility that 
52.22 	is: (1) owned or leased by the licensed manufacturer; and (2) registered, in advance and 
52.23 	in writing, with the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement as a manufacturer's 
52.24 	storage facility. No gambling equipment may be shipped into Minnesota to the 
52.25 	manufacturer's registered storage facility unless the shipment of the gambling equipment 
52.26 	is reported to the Department of Revenue in a manner prescribed by the department. 
52.27 	No gambling equipment may be moved from the storage facility unless the gambling 
52.28 	equipment is sold to a licensed distributor and is otherwise in conformity with this chapter, 
52.29 	is shipped to an out-of-state site and the shipment is reported to the Department of 
52.30 	Revenue in a manner prescribed by the department, or is otherwise sold and shipped as 
52.31 	permitted by board rule. A manufacturer must notify the board of the method that it will 
52.32 	use to sell and transfer electronic pull-tab games to licensed distributors, and must receive 
52.33 	approval of the board before implementing or making changes to the approved method.
52.34 	(c) All storage facilities owned, leased, used, or operated by a licensed distributor 
52.35 	or manufacturer may be entered upon and inspected by the employees of the Division of 
53.1 	Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement, the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement 
53.2 	director's authorized representatives, employees of the Gambling Control Board or its 
53.3 	authorized representatives, employees of the Department of Revenue, or authorized 
53.4 	representatives of the director of the Division of Special Taxes of the Department of 
53.5 	Revenue during reasonable and regular business hours. Obstruction of, or failure to 
53.6 	permit, entry and inspection is cause for revocation or suspension of a manufacturer's or 
53.7 	distributor's licenses and permits issued under this chapter.
53.8 	(d) Unregistered gambling equipment found at any location in Minnesota other than 
53.9 	the manufacturing plant of a licensed manufacturer or a registered storage facility are 
53.10 	contraband under section 349.2125. This paragraph does not apply:
53.11 	(1) to unregistered gambling equipment being transported in interstate commerce 
53.12 	between locations outside this state, if the interstate shipment is verified by a bill of lading 
53.13 	or other valid shipping document; and
53.14 	(2) to gambling equipment registered with the Department of Revenue for 
53.15 	distribution to the tribal casinos.

53.16 	Sec. 23. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.163, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
53.17 		Subdivision 1.License required. No manufacturer of gambling equipment may 
53.18 	sell any gambling equipment to any person for use or resale within the state, unless the 
53.19 	manufacturer has a current and valid license issued by the board under this section and has 
53.20 	satisfied other criteria prescribed by the board by rule. A manufacturer licensed under this 
53.21 	section may also be licensed as a linked bingo game provider under section 349.1635. 
53.22 	A manufacturer licensed under this section may not also be directly or indirectly 
53.23 	licensed as a distributor under section 349.161.

53.24 	Sec. 24. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.163, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
53.25 		Subd. 5.Paper pull-tab and tipboard flares. (a) A manufacturer may not ship or 
53.26 	cause to be shipped into this state or sell for use or resale in this state any deal of paper
53.27 	pull-tabs or tipboards that does not have its own individual flare as required for that deal 
53.28 	by this subdivision and rule of the board. A person other than a manufacturer may not 
53.29 	manufacture, alter, modify, or otherwise change a flare for a deal of paper pull-tabs or 
53.30 	tipboards except as allowed by this chapter or board rules.
53.31 	(b) The flare of each paper pull-tab and tipboard game must have affixed to 
53.32 	or imprinted at the bottom a bar code that provides all information required by the 
53.33 	commissioner of revenue under section 297E.04, subdivision 2.
54.1 	The serial number included in the bar code must be the same as the serial number 
54.2 	of the tickets included in the deal. A manufacturer who manufactures a deal of paper
54.3 	pull-tabs must affix to the outside of the box containing that game the same bar code that 
54.4 	is affixed to or imprinted at the bottom of a flare for that deal.
54.5 	(c) No person may alter the bar code that appears on the outside of a box containing 
54.6 	a deal of paper pull-tabs and tipboards. Possession of a box containing a deal of paper
54.7 	pull-tabs and tipboards that has a bar code different from the bar code of the deal inside 
54.8 	the box is prima facie evidence that the possessor has altered the bar code on the box.
54.9 	(d) The flare of each deal of paper pull-tabs and tipboards sold by a manufacturer for 
54.10 	use or resale in Minnesota must have imprinted on it a symbol that is at least one inch high 
54.11 	and one inch wide consisting of an outline of the geographic boundaries of Minnesota 
54.12 	with the letters "MN" inside the outline. The flare must be placed inside the wrapping of 
54.13 	the deal which the flare describes.
54.14 	(e) Each paper pull-tab and tipboard flare must bear the following statement printed 
54.15 	in letters large enough to be clearly legible:
54.16 	"Pull-tab (or tipboard) purchasers -- This pull-tab (or tipboard) game is not legal in 
54.17 	Minnesota unless:
54.18 	-- an outline of Minnesota with letters "MN" inside it is imprinted on this sheet, and
54.19 	-- the serial number imprinted on the bar code at the bottom of this sheet is the same 
54.20 	as the serial number on the pull-tab (or tipboard) ticket you have purchased."
54.21 	(f) The flare of each paper pull-tab and tipboard game must have the serial number 
54.22 	of the game imprinted on the bar code at the bottom of the flare in numerals at least 
54.23 	one-half inch high.

54.24 	Sec. 25. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.163, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
54.25 		Subd. 6.Samples of gambling equipment. (a) The board shall require each 
54.26 	licensed manufacturer to submit to the board one or more samples of each item of gambling 
54.27 	equipment the manufacturer manufactures manufactured for use or resale in this state.
54.28 	For purposes of this subdivision, a manufacturer is also required to submit the applicable 
54.29 	version of any software necessary to operate electronic devices and related systems.
54.30 	(b) The board shall inspect and test all the equipment, including software and 
54.31 	software upgrades, it deems necessary to determine the equipment's compliance with 
54.32 	law and board rules. Samples required under this subdivision must be approved by the 
54.33 	board before the equipment being sampled is shipped into or sold for use or resale in this 
54.34 	state. The board shall impose a fee of $25 for each item of gambling equipment that the 
55.1 	manufacturer submits for approval or for which the manufacturer requests approval. The 
55.2 	board shall impose a fee of $100 for each sample of gambling equipment that it tests.
55.3 	(c) The board may require samples of gambling equipment to be tested by an 
55.4 	independent testing laboratory prior to submission to the board for approval. All costs 
55.5 	of testing by an independent testing laboratory must be borne by the manufacturer. An 
55.6 	independent testing laboratory used by a manufacturer to test samples of gambling 
55.7 	equipment must be approved by the board before the equipment is submitted to the 
55.8 	laboratory for testing.
55.9 	(d) The board may request the assistance of the commissioner of public safety and 
55.10 	the director of the State Lottery in performing the tests.

55.11 	Sec. 26. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.1635, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
55.12 		Subd. 2.License application. The board may issue a license to a linked bingo game 
55.13 	provider or to a manufacturer licensed under section 349.163 who meets the qualifications 
55.14 	of this chapter and the rules promulgated by the board. The application shall be on a form 
55.15 	prescribed by the board. The license is valid for two years and the fee for a linked bingo 
55.16 	game provider license is $5,000 per year.

55.17 	Sec. 27. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.1635, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
55.18 		Subd. 3.Attachments to application. An applicant for a linked bingo game 
55.19 	provider license must attach to its application:
55.20 	(1) evidence of a bond in the principal amount of $100,000 payable to the state of 
55.21 	Minnesota conditioned on the payment of all linked bingo prizes and any other money due 
55.22 	and payable under this chapter;
55.23 	(2) detailed plans and specifications for the operation of the linked bingo game and 
55.24 	the linked bingo system, along with a proposed fee schedule for the cost of providing 
55.25 	services and equipment to licensed organizations which may not exceed ... percent of 
55.26 	gross profits. The fee schedule must incorporate costs paid to distributors for services 
55.27 	provided under subdivision 5; and
55.28 	(3) any other information required by the board by rule.

55.29 	Sec. 28. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.1635, is amended by adding a 
55.30 	subdivision to read:
55.31 		Subd. 5.Linked bingo game services requirements. (a) A linked bingo game 
55.32 	provider must contract with licensed distributors for linked bingo game services including, 
56.1 	but not limited to, the solicitation of agreements with licensed organizations, and 
56.2 	installation, repair, or maintenance of the linked bingo game system.
56.3 	(b) A distributor may not charge a fee to licensed organizations for services 
56.4 	authorized and rendered under paragraph (a).
56.5 	(c) A linked bingo game provider may not contract with any distributor on an 
56.6 	exclusive basis.
56.7 	(d) A linked bingo game provider may refuse to contract with a licensed distributor 
56.8 	if the linked bingo game provider demonstrates that the licensed distributor is not capable 
56.9 	of performing the services under the contract.

56.10 	Sec. 29. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.17, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
56.11 		Subd. 6.Conduct of bingo. The price of a face played on an electronic bingo 
56.12 	device may not be less than the price of a face on a bingo paper sheet sold for the same 
56.13 	game at the same occasion. A game of bingo begins with the first letter and number called
56.14 	or displayed. Each player must cover, mark, or activate the numbers when bingo numbers 
56.15 	are randomly selected, and announced, and or displayed to the players, either manually 
56.16 	or with a flashboard and monitor. The game is won when a player, using bingo paper, 
56.17 	bingo hard card, or a facsimile of a bingo paper sheet, has completed, as described in the 
56.18 	bingo program, a previously designated pattern or previously determined requirements 
56.19 	of the game and declared bingo. The game is completed when a winning card, sheet, or 
56.20 	facsimile is verified and a prize awarded pursuant to subdivision 3.

56.21 	Sec. 30. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.17, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
56.22 		Subd. 7.Bar bingo. An organization may conduct bar bingo subject to the 
56.23 	following restrictions:
56.24 	(1) the bingo is conducted at a site the organization owns or leases and which has a 
56.25 	license for the sale of intoxicating beverages on the premises under chapter 340A; and
56.26 	(2) the bingo is conducted using only bingo paper sheets or facsimiles of bingo paper 
56.27 	sheets purchased from a licensed distributor or licensed linked bingo game provider; and.
56.28 	(3) no rent may be paid for a bar bingo occasion.

56.29 	Sec. 31. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.17, subdivision 8, is amended to read:
56.30 		Subd. 8.Linked bingo games. (a) A licensed organization may conduct or 
56.31 	participate in not more than two linked bingo games per occasion, one of which may be, 
56.32 	including a progressive game in which a portion of the prize is carried over from one 
57.1 	occasion game to another until won by a player achieving a bingo within a predetermined 
57.2 	amount of bingo numbers called.
57.3 	(b) Each participating licensed organization shall contribute to each prize awarded in 
57.4 	a linked bingo game in an amount not to exceed $300. Linked bingo games may only be 
57.5 	conducted by licensed organizations who have a valid agreement with the linked bingo 
57.6 	game provider.
57.7 	(c) An electronic bingo device as defined in section 349.12, subdivision 12a, may 
57.8 	be used for a linked bingo game.
57.9 	(d) The board may adopt rules to:
57.10 	(1) specify the manner in which a linked bingo game must be played and how the 
57.11 	linked bingo prizes must be awarded;
57.12 	(2) specify the records to be maintained by a linked bingo game provider;
57.13 	(3) require the submission of periodic reports by the linked bingo game provider and 
57.14 	specify the content of the reports;
57.15 	(4) establish the qualifications required to be licensed as a linked bingo game 
57.16 	provider; and
57.17 	(5) any other matter involving the operation of a linked bingo game.

57.18 	Sec. 32. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.17, is amended by adding a subdivision 
57.19 	to read:
57.20 		Subd. 9.Linked bingo games played exclusively on electronic bingo devices. In 
57.21 	addition to the requirements of subdivision 8, the following requirements and restrictions 
57.22 	apply when linked bingo games are played exclusively on electronic bingo devices:
57.23 	(a) The permitted premises must be:
57.24 	(1) a premises licensed for the on-sale or off-sale of intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent 
57.25 	malt beverages, except for a general food store or drug store permitted to sell alcoholic 
57.26 	beverages under section 340A.405, subdivision 1; or
57.27 	(2) a premises where bingo is conducted as the primary business and has a seating 
57.28 	capacity of at least 100.
57.29 	(b) The number of electronic bingo devices is limited to:
57.30 	(1) no more than six devices in play for permitted premises with 200 seats or less;
57.31 	(2) no more than 12 devices in play for permitted premises with 201 seats or more; 
57.32 	and
57.33 	(3) no more than 50 devices in play for permitted premises where bingo is the 
57.34 	primary business.
57.35 	Seating capacity is determined as specified under the local fire code.
58.1 	(c) Prior to a bingo occasion, the linked bingo game provider, on behalf of the 
58.2 	participating organizations, must provide to the board a bingo program in a format 
58.3 	prescribed by the board.
58.4 	(d) Before participating in the play of a linked bingo game, a player must present 
58.5 	and register a valid picture identification card that includes the player's address and 
58.6 	date of birth.
58.7 	(e) An organization may remove from play a device that a player has not maintained 
58.8 	in an activated mode for a specified period of time determined by the organization. The 
58.9 	organization must provide the notice in its house rules.

58.10 	Sec. 33. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.1721, is amended to read:
58.11 	349.1721 CONDUCT OF PULL-TABS.
58.12 		Subdivision 1.Cumulative or carryover games. The board shall by rule permit 
58.13 	pull-tab games with multiple seals. The board shall also adopt rules for pull-tab games with 
58.14 	cumulative or carryover prizes. The rules shall also apply to electronic pull-tab games.
58.15 		Subd. 2.Event games. The board shall by rule permit pull-tab games in which 
58.16 	certain winners are determined by the random selection of one or more bingo numbers 
58.17 	or by another method approved by the board. The rules shall also apply to electronic 
58.18 	pull-tab games. 
58.19 		Subd. 3.Pull-tab dispensing device location restrictions and requirements.
 58.20 	The following pertain to pull-tab dispensing devices as defined under section 349.12, 
58.21 	subdivision 32a.
58.22 	(a) The use of any pull-tab dispensing device must be at a permitted premises 
58.23 	which is:
58.24 	(1) a licensed premises for on-sale of intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent malt 
58.25 	beverages;
58.26 	(2) a premises where bingo is conducted as the primary business; or
58.27 	(3) an establishment licensed for the off-sale of intoxicating liquor, other than drug 
58.28 	stores and general food stores licensed under section 340A.405, subdivision 1.
58.29 	(b) The number of pull-tab dispensing devices located at any permitted premises 
58.30 	is limited to three.
58.31 		Subd. 4.Electronic pull-tab device requirements and restrictions. The following 
58.32 	pertain to the use of electronic pull-tab devices as defined under section 349.12, 
58.33 	subdivision 12b.
58.34 	(a) The use of any electronic pull-tab device must be at a permitted premises that is:
59.1 	(1) a premises licensed for the on-sale or off-sale of intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent 
59.2 	malt beverages, except for a general food store or drug store permitted to sell alcoholic 
59.3 	beverages under section 340A.405, subdivision 1; or
59.4 	(2) a premises where bingo is conducted as the primary business and has a seating 
59.5 	capacity of at least 100; and
59.6 	(3) where the sale of paper pull-tabs is conducted by the licensed organization.
59.7 	(b) The number of electronic pull-tab devices is limited to:
59.8 	(1) no more than six devices in play at any permitted premises with 200 seats or less;
59.9 	(2) no more than 12 devices in play at any permitted premises with 201 seats 
59.10 	or more; and
59.11 	(3) no more than 50 devices in play at any permitted premises where the primary 
59.12 	business is bingo.
59.13 	Seating capacity is determined as specified under the local fire code.
59.14 	(c) The hours of operation for the devices are limited to 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
59.15 	(d) All electronic pull-tab games must be sold and played on the permitted premises 
59.16 	and may not be linked to other permitted premises.
59.17 	(e) Electronic pull-tab games may not be transferred electronically or otherwise to 
59.18 	any other location by the licensed organization.
59.19 	(f) Electronic pull-tab games may be commingled if the games are from the same 
59.20 	family of games and manufacturer and contain the same game name, form number, type 
59.21 	of game, ticket count, prize amounts, and prize denominations. Each commingled game 
59.22 	must have a unique serial number.
59.23 	(g) An organization may remove from play a device that a player has not maintained 
59.24 	in an activated mode for a specified period of time determined by the organization. The 
59.25 	organization must provide the notice in its house rules. 
59.26 	(h) Before participating in the play of an electronic pull-tab game, a player must 
59.27 	present and register a valid picture identification card that includes the player's address 
59.28 	and date of birth.
59.29 	(i) Each player is limited to the use of one device at a time.

59.30 	Sec. 34. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.18, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
59.31 		Subdivision 1.Lease or ownership required; rent limitations. (a) An organization 
59.32 	may conduct lawful gambling only on premises it owns or leases. Leases must be on a 
59.33 	form prescribed by the board. The term of the lease is concurrent with the premises permit. 
59.34 	Leases approved by the board must specify that the board may authorize an organization 
59.35 	to withhold rent from a lessor for a period of up to 90 days if the board determines that 
60.1 	illegal gambling occurred on the premises or that the lessor or its employees participated 
60.2 	in the illegal gambling or knew of the gambling and did not take prompt action to stop the 
60.3 	gambling. The lease must authorize the continued tenancy of the organization without 
60.4 	the payment of rent during the time period determined by the board under this paragraph. 
60.5 	Copies of all leases must be made available to employees of the board and the Division of 
60.6 	Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement on request.
60.7 	(b) Rent paid by an organization for leased premises for the conduct of pull-tabs, 
60.8 	tipboards, and paddle wheels lawful gambling is subject to the following limits and 
60.9 	restrictions:
60.10 	(1) For booth operations, including booth operations where a pull-tab dispensing 
60.11 	device is located, booth operations where a bar operation is also conducted, and booth 
60.12 	operations where both a pull-tab dispensing device is located and a bar operation is also 
60.13 	conducted, the maximum rent is: monthly rent may not exceed ten percent of gross profits 
60.14 	for that month.
60.15 	(i) in any month where the organization's gross profit at those premises does not 
60.16 	exceed $4,000, up to $400; and
60.17 	(ii) in any month where the organization's gross profit at those premises exceeds 
60.18 	$4,000, up to $400 plus not more than ten percent of the gross profit for that month in 
60.19 	excess of $4,000;
60.20 	(2) For bar operations, including bar operations where a pull-tab dispensing device 
60.21 	is located but not including bar operations subject to clause (1), and for locations where 
60.22 	only a pull-tab dispensing device is located: monthly rent may not exceed 15 percent of 
60.23 	the gross profits for that month.
60.24 	(i) in any month where the organization's gross profit at those premises does not 
60.25 	exceed $1,000, up to $200; and
60.26 	(ii) in any month where the organization's gross profit at those premises exceeds 
60.27 	$1,000, up to $200 plus not more than 20 percent of the gross profit for that month 
60.28 	in excess of $1,000;
60.29 	(3) a lease not governed by clauses (1) and (2) must be approved by the board before 
60.30 	becoming effective; For electronic linked bingo games and electronic pull-tab games that 
60.31 	are operated for separate time periods within a business day by an organization and the 
60.32 	lessor, monthly rent may not be more than:
60.33 	(i) 15 percent of the gross profits for that month for the time periods operated by 
60.34 	the lessor. The lessor is responsible for cash shortages that occur during the time periods 
60.35 	the games are operated by the lessor; and
61.1 	(ii) ten percent of gross profits for that month for the time periods operated by the 
61.2 	organization. The organization is responsible for cash shortages that occur during the time 
61.3 	periods the games are operated by the organization.
61.4 	(4) total rent paid to a lessor from all organizations from leases governed by clause 
61.5 	(1) may not exceed $1,750 per month.
61.6 	(c) Rent paid by an organization for leased premises for the conduct of bingo is 
61.7 	subject to either of the following limits at the option of the parties to the lease:
61.8 	(1) (4) For bingo conducted at a leased premises where the primary business is 
61.9 	bingo, rent is limited to either not more than ten percent of the monthly gross profit from 
61.10 	all lawful gambling activities held during bingo occasions, excluding bar bingo or at a 
61.11 	rate based on a cost per square foot not to exceed 110 percent of a comparable cost per 
61.12 	square foot for leased space as approved by the director; and.
61.13 	(2) (5) No rent may be paid for bar bingo as defined in section 349.12, subdivision 3c.
61.14 	(6) A lease not governed by clauses (1) to (5) must be approved by the director 
61.15 	before becoming effective.
61.16 	(d) (c) Amounts paid as rent under leases are all-inclusive. No other services or 
61.17 	expenses provided or contracted by the lessor may be paid by the organization, including, 
61.18 	but not limited to, trash removal, janitorial and cleaning services, snow removal, lawn 
61.19 	services, electricity, heat, security, security monitoring, storage, and other utilities or 
61.20 	services, and, in the case of bar operations, cash shortages, unless approved by the 
61.21 	director. The lessor shall be responsible for the cost of any communications network or 
61.22 	service required to conduct electronic pull-tab games or electronic bingo games. Any 
61.23 	other expenditure made by an organization that is related to a leased premises must be 
61.24 	approved by the director. For bar operations, the lessor is responsible for cash shortages.
61.25 	An organization may not provide any compensation or thing of value to a lessor or the 
61.26 	lessor's employees from any fund source other than its gambling account. Rent payments 
61.27 	may not be made to an individual.
61.28 	(e) (d) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), an organization may pay a lessor for food 
61.29 	or beverages or meeting room rental if the charge made is comparable to similar charges 
61.30 	made to other individuals or groups.
61.31 	(f) No entity other than the (e) A licensed organization may not conduct any activity 
61.32 	within a booth operation on behalf of the lessor on a leased premises.

61.33 	Sec. 35. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.19, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
62.1 		Subd. 2.Accounts. (a) Gross receipts from lawful gambling by each organization 
62.2 	must be segregated from all other revenues of the conducting organization and placed in a 
62.3 	separate gambling bank account.
62.4 	(b) All expenditures for allowable expenses, taxes, and lawful purposes must be 
62.5 	made from the separate account except (1) in the case of expenditures previously approved 
62.6 	by the organization's membership for emergencies as defined by board rule, (2) as provided 
62.7 	in subdivision 2a, or (3) when restricted to one electronic fund transaction for the payment 
62.8 	of taxes for the organization as a whole, the organization may transfer the amount of taxes 
62.9 	related to the conduct of gambling to the general account at the time when due and payable.
62.10 	(c) The name and address of the bank, the account number for the separate account, 
62.11 	and the names of organization members authorized as signatories on the separate account 
62.12 	must be provided to the board when the application is submitted. Changes in the 
62.13 	information must be submitted to the board at least ten days before the change is made.
62.14 	(d) Except for gambling receipts from electronic pull-tab games and linked 
62.15 	electronic bingo games, gambling receipts must be deposited into the gambling bank 
62.16 	account within four business days of completion of the bingo occasion, deal, or game from 
62.17 	which they are received.
62.18 	(1) A deal of paper pull-tabs is considered complete when either the last pull-tab of 
62.19 	the deal is sold or the organization does not continue the play of the deal during the next 
62.20 	scheduled period of time in which the organization will conduct pull-tabs.
62.21 	(2) A tipboard game is considered complete when the seal on the game flare is 
62.22 	uncovered or the organization does not continue the play of the deal during the next 
62.23 	scheduled period of time in which the organization will conduct tipboards.
62.24 	(e) Gambling receipts from all electronic pull-tab games and all linked electronic 
62.25 	bingo games must be recorded on a daily basis and deposited into the gambling bank 
62.26 	account within two business days.
62.27 	(e) (f) Deposit records must be sufficient to allow determination of deposits made 
62.28 	from each bingo occasion, deal, or game at each permitted premises.
62.29 	(f) (g) The person who accounts for gambling gross receipts and profits may not be 
62.30 	the same person who accounts for other revenues of the organization.

62.31 	Sec. 36. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.19, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
62.32 		Subd. 3.Expenditures. (a) All expenditures of gross profits from lawful gambling 
62.33 	must be itemized as to payee, purpose, amount, and date of payment.
63.1 	(b) Each licensed organization must report monthly to the board on a form in an 
63.2 	electronic format prescribed by the board each expenditure or contribution of net profits 
63.3 	from lawful gambling. The reports must provide for each expenditure or contribution:
63.4 	(1) the name of the recipient of the expenditure or contribution;
63.5 	(2) the date the expenditure or contribution was approved by the organization;
63.6 	(3) the date, amount, and check number or electronic transfer confirmation number 
63.7 	of the expenditure or contribution;
63.8 	(4) a brief description of how the expenditure or contribution meets one or more of 
63.9 	the purposes in section 349.12, subdivision 25; and
63.10 	(5) in the case of expenditures authorized under section 349.12, subdivision 25, 
63.11 	paragraph (a), clause (7), whether the expenditure is for a facility or activity that primarily 
63.12 	benefits male or female participants.
63.13 	(c) Authorization of the expenditures must be recorded in the monthly meeting 
63.14 	minutes of the licensed organization.
63.15 	(d) Checks or authorizations for electronic fund transfers for expenditures of gross 
63.16 	profits must be signed by at least two persons authorized by board rules to sign the 
63.17 	checks or authorizations.
63.18 	(e) Expenditures of gross profits from lawful gambling for local, state, and federal 
63.19 	taxes as identified in section 349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clause (8), may be 
63.20 	transferred electronically from the organization's gambling account directly to bank 
63.21 	accounts identified by local, state, or federal agencies if the organization's gambling 
63.22 	account monthly bank statement specifically identifies the payee by name, the amount 
63.23 	transferred, and the date of the transaction.
63.24 	(f) Expenditures of gross profits from lawful gambling for payments for lawful 
63.25 	purpose expenditures and allowable expenses may be transferred electronically from the 
63.26 	organization's gambling account directly to bank accounts identified by the vendor if the 
63.27 	organization's gambling account monthly bank statement specifically identifies the payee 
63.28 	by name, the amount transferred, the account number of the account into which the funds 
63.29 	were transferred, and the date of the transaction.
63.30 	(g) Expenditures of gross profits from lawful gambling for payroll compensation 
63.31 	to an employee's account and for the payment of local, state, and federal withholding 
63.32 	taxes may be transferred electronically to and from the account of a payroll processing 
63.33 	firm provided that the firm:
63.34 	(1) is currently registered with and meets the criteria of the Department of Revenue 
63.35 	as a third-party bulk filer under section 290.92, subdivision 30;
64.1 	(2) is able to provide proof of a third-party audit and an annual report and statement 
64.2 	of financial condition;
64.3 	(3) is able to provide evidence of a fidelity bond; and
64.4 	(4) can provide proof of having been in business as a third-party bulk filer for the 
64.5 	most recent three years.
64.6 	(h) Electronic payments of taxes, lawful purpose expenditures, and allowable 
64.7 	expenses are permitted only if they have been authorized by the membership, the 
64.8 	organization maintains supporting documentation, and the expenditures can be verified.

64.9 	Sec. 37. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.19, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
64.10 		Subd. 5.Reports. (a) A licensed organization must report monthly to the 
64.11 	Department of Revenue board in an electronic format prescribed by the board and to its 
64.12 	membership monthly, or quarterly in the case of a licensed organization which does not 
64.13 	report more than $1,000 in gross receipts from lawful gambling in any calendar quarter,
64.14 	on its gross receipts, expenses, profits, and expenditure of profits from lawful gambling
64.15 	for each permitted premises. The organization must account for and report on each form 
64.16 	of lawful gambling conducted. The report organization must include a reconciliation of 
64.17 	the organization's profit carryover with its cash balance on hand. If the organization 
64.18 	conducts both bingo and other forms of lawful gambling, the figures for both must be 
64.19 	reported separately.
64.20 	(b) The organization must report annually to its membership and annually file with 
64.21 	the board a financial summary report in a format prescribed by the board that identifies the 
64.22 	organization's receipts and use of lawful gambling proceeds, including: monthly to the 
64.23 	commissioner of revenue as required under section 297E.06.
64.24 	(1) gross receipts;
64.25 	(2) prizes paid;
64.26 	(3) allowable expenses;
64.27 	(4) lawful purpose expenditures, including annual totals for types of charitable 
64.28 	contributions and all taxes and fees as per section 349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph 
64.29 	(a), clauses (8) and (18);
64.30 	(5) the percentage of annual gross profits used for charitable contributions; and
64.31 	(6) the percentage of annual gross profits used for all taxes and fees as per section 
64.32 	349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clauses (8) and (18).

64.33 	Sec. 38. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.19, subdivision 10, is amended to read:
65.1 		Subd. 10.Pull-tab records. (a) The board shall by rule require a licensed 
65.2 	organization to require each winner of a paper pull-tab prize of $50 or more to present 
65.3 	identification in the form of a driver's license, Minnesota identification card, or other 
65.4 	identification the board deems sufficient to allow the identification and tracking of the 
65.5 	winner. The rule must require the organization to retain winning paper pull-tabs of $50 or 
65.6 	more, and the identification of the winner of the pull-tab, for 3-1/2 years.
65.7 	(b) An organization must maintain separate cash banks for each deal of paper
65.8 	pull-tabs unless (1) the licensed organization uses a pull-tab dispensing device, or (2) the 
65.9 	organization uses a cash register, of a type approved by the board, which records all 
65.10 	sales of paper pull-tabs by separate deals.
65.11 	(c) The board shall:
65.12 	(1) by rule adopt minimum technical standards for cash registers that may be used 
65.13 	by organizations, and shall approve for use by organizations any cash register that meets 
65.14 	the standards; and
65.15 	(2) before allowing an organization to use a cash register that commingles receipts 
65.16 	from several different paper pull-tab games in play, adopt rules that define how cash 
65.17 	registers may be used and that establish a procedure for organizations to reconcile all 
65.18 	pull-tab games in play at the end of each month.

65.19 	Sec. 39. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 349.211, subdivision 1a, is amended to read:
65.20 		Subd. 1a.Linked bingo prizes. Prizes for a linked bingo game shall be limited 
65.21 	as follows:
65.22 	(1) no organization may contribute more than $300 per linked bingo game to a 
65.23 	linked bingo prize pool for linked bingo games played without electronic bingo devices, 
65.24 	an organization may not contribute to a linked bingo game prize pool more than $300 
65.25 	per linked bingo game per site;
65.26 	(2) for linked bingo games played exclusively with electronic bingo devices, an 
65.27 	organization may not contribute more than 85 percent of the gross receipts per permitted 
65.28 	premises to a linked bingo game prize pool;
65.29 	(2) (3) no organization may award more than $200 for a linked bingo game 
65.30 	consolation prize. For purposes of this subdivision, a linked bingo game consolation 
65.31 	prize is a prize awarded by an organization after a prize from the linked bingo prize pool 
65.32 	has been won; and
65.33 	(3) (4) for a progressive linked bingo game, if no player declares a valid bingo 
65.34 	within the for a progressive prize or prizes based on a predetermined amount of bingo 
65.35 	numbers called and posted win determination, a portion of the prize is gross receipts 
66.1 	may be carried over to another occasion game until the accumulated progressive prize 
66.2 	is won. The portion of the prize that is not carried over must be awarded to the first 
66.3 	player or players who declares a valid bingo as additional numbers are called. If a valid 
66.4 	bingo is declared within the predetermined amount of bingo numbers called, the entire 
66.5 	prize pool for that game is awarded to the winner. The annual limit for progressive bingo 
66.6 	game prizes contained in subdivision 2 must be reduced by the amount an organization 
66.7 	contributes to progressive linked bingo games during the same calendar year.; and
66.8 	(5) for linked bingo games played exclusively with electronic bingo devices, linked 
66.9 	bingo prizes in excess of $599 shall be paid by the linked bingo game provider to the 
66.10 	player within three business days. Winners of linked bingo prizes in excess of $599 will 
66.11 	be given a receipt or claim voucher as proof of a win.

66.12 	Sec. 40. APPROPRIATION.
 66.13 	(a) $450,000 in fiscal year 2012 and $779,000 in fiscal year 2013 are appropriated 
66.14 	from the lawful gambling regulation account in the special revenue fund to the Gambling 
66.15 	Control Board for operating expenses related to the regulatory oversight of lawful 
66.16 	gambling for electronic pull-tabs and electronic linked bingo.
66.17 	(b) One-half of one percent of the revenue deposited in the general fund under 
66.18 	Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695, subdivision 8, paragraph (a), is appropriated to 
66.19 	the commissioner of human services for the compulsive gambling treatment program 
66.20 	established under Minnesota Statutes, section 245.98. One-half of one percent of the 
66.21 	revenue deposited in the general fund under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695, 
66.22 	subdivision 8, paragraph (a), is appropriated to the Gambling Control Board for a 
66.23 	grant to the state affiliate recognized by the National Council on Problem Gambling to 
66.24 	increase public awareness of problem gambling, education and training for individuals 
66.25 	and organizations providing effective treatment services to problem gamblers and 
66.26 	their families, and research relating to problem gambling. Money appropriated by this 
66.27 	paragraph must supplement and must not replace existing state funding for these programs.

66.28 	Sec. 41. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 66.29 	This article is effective the day following final enactment.

66.30 	ARTICLE 6
66.31 	MISCELLANEOUS

66.32 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 297A.71, is amended by adding a 
66.33 	subdivision to read:
67.1 		Subd. 44.Building materials, capital projects. Materials and supplies used or 
67.2 	consumed in and equipment incorporated into the construction or improvement of a capital 
67.3 	project funded partially or wholly under section 297A.9905 are exempt, provided that the 
67.4 	project has a total construction cost of at least $40,000,000 within a ...-month period. 
67.5 	The tax on purchases exempt under this provision must be imposed and collected as if 
67.6 	the rate under section 297A.62, subdivision 1, applied and then refunded in the manner 
67.7 	provided in section 297A.75.

67.8 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective for sales and purchases made after 
67.9 	June 30, 2013.

67.10 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 297A.75, as amended by Laws 2011, First 
67.11 	Special Session chapter 7, article 3, sections 13 to 15, is amended to read:
67.12 	297A.75 REFUND; APPROPRIATION.
67.13 		Subdivision 1.Tax collected. The tax on the gross receipts from the sale of the 
67.14 	following exempt items must be imposed and collected as if the sale were taxable and the 
67.15 	rate under section 297A.62, subdivision 1, applied. The exempt items include:
67.16 	(1) capital equipment exempt under section 297A.68, subdivision 5;
67.17 	(2) building materials for an agricultural processing facility exempt under section 
67.18 	297A.71, subdivision 13;
67.19 	(3) building materials for mineral production facilities exempt under section 
67.20 	297A.71, subdivision 14;
67.21 	(4) building materials for correctional facilities under section 297A.71, subdivision 
67.22 	3;
67.23 	(5) building materials used in a residence for disabled veterans exempt under section 
67.24 	297A.71, subdivision 11;
67.25 	(6) elevators and building materials exempt under section 297A.71, subdivision 12;
67.26 	(7) building materials for the Long Lake Conservation Center exempt under section 
67.27 	297A.71, subdivision 17;
67.28 	(8) materials and supplies for qualified low-income housing under section 297A.71, 
67.29 	subdivision 23;
67.30 	(9) materials, supplies, and equipment for municipal electric utility facilities under 
67.31 	section 297A.71, subdivision 35;
67.32 	(10) equipment and materials used for the generation, transmission, and distribution 
67.33 	of electrical energy and an aerial camera package exempt under section 297A.68, 
67.34 	subdivision 37;
68.1 	(11) tangible personal property and taxable services and construction materials, 
68.2 	supplies, and equipment exempt under section 297A.68, subdivision 41;
68.3 	(12) commuter rail vehicle and repair parts under section 297A.70, subdivision 
68.4 	3, clause (11);
68.5 	(13) materials, supplies, and equipment for construction or improvement of projects 
68.6 	and facilities under section 297A.71, subdivision 40;
68.7 	(14) materials, supplies, and equipment for construction or improvement of a meat 
68.8 	processing facility exempt under section 297A.71, subdivision 41;
68.9 	(15) materials, supplies, and equipment for construction, improvement, or expansion 
68.10 	of an aerospace defense manufacturing facility exempt under section 297A.71, subdivision 
68.11 	42; and
68.12 	(16) enterprise information technology equipment and computer software for use in 
68.13 	a qualified data center exempt under section 297A.68, subdivision 42.; and
68.14 	(17) materials, supplies, and equipment for qualifying capital projects under section 
68.15 	297A.71, subdivision 44.
68.16 		Subd. 2.Refund; eligible persons. Upon application on forms prescribed by the 
68.17 	commissioner, a refund equal to the tax paid on the gross receipts of the exempt items 
68.18 	must be paid to the applicant. Only the following persons may apply for the refund:
68.19 	(1) for subdivision 1, clauses (1) to (3), the applicant must be the purchaser;
68.20 	(2) for subdivision 1, clauses (4) and (7), the applicant must be the governmental 
68.21 	subdivision;
68.22 	(3) for subdivision 1, clause (5), the applicant must be the recipient of the benefits 
68.23 	provided in United States Code, title 38, chapter 21;
68.24 	(4) for subdivision 1, clause (6), the applicant must be the owner of the homestead 
68.25 	property;
68.26 	(5) for subdivision 1, clause (8), the owner of the qualified low-income housing 
68.27 	project;
68.28 	(6) for subdivision 1, clause (9), the applicant must be a municipal electric utility or 
68.29 	a joint venture of municipal electric utilities;
68.30 	(7) for subdivision 1, clauses (10), (11), (14), (15), and (16), the owner of the 
68.31 	qualifying business; and
68.32 	(8) for subdivision 1, clauses (12) and, (13), and (17), the applicant must be the 
68.33 	governmental entity that owns or contracts for the project or facility.
68.34 		Subd. 3.Application. (a) The application must include sufficient information 
68.35 	to permit the commissioner to verify the tax paid. If the tax was paid by a contractor, 
68.36 	subcontractor, or builder, under subdivision 1, clause (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), 
69.1 	(12), (13), (14), (15), or (16), or (17), the contractor, subcontractor, or builder must 
69.2 	furnish to the refund applicant a statement including the cost of the exempt items and the 
69.3 	taxes paid on the items unless otherwise specifically provided by this subdivision. The 
69.4 	provisions of sections 289A.40 and 289A.50 apply to refunds under this section.
69.5 	(b) An applicant may not file more than two applications per calendar year for 
69.6 	refunds for taxes paid on capital equipment exempt under section 297A.68, subdivision 5.
69.7 	(c) Total refunds for purchases of items in section 297A.71, subdivision 40, must not 
69.8 	exceed $5,000,000 in fiscal years 2010 and 2011. Applications for refunds for purchases 
69.9 	of items in sections 297A.70, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), clause (11), and 297A.71, 
69.10 	subdivision 40, must not be filed until after June 30, 2009.
69.11 		Subd. 4.Interest. Interest must be paid on the refund at the rate in section 270C.405 
69.12 	from 90 days after the refund claim is filed with the commissioner for taxes paid under 
69.13 	subdivision 1.
69.14 		Subd. 5.Appropriation. The amount required to make the refunds is annually 
69.15 	appropriated to the commissioner.

69.16 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective for sales and purchases made after .....

69.17 	Sec. 3. [297A.9905] USE OF LOCAL TAX REVENUES BY CITIES OF THE 
69.18 	FIRST CLASS.
69.19 	(a) Notwithstanding section 297A.99, or other general or special law or charter 
69.20 	provision, if the revenues from any local tax imposed on retail sales under special law 
69.21 	by a city of the first class exceeds the amount needed to fund the uses authorized in the 
69.22 	special law, the city may expend the excess revenue from the tax to fund other capital 
69.23 	projects of regional significance.
69.24 	(b) For purposes of this section:
69.25 	(1) "city of the first class" has the meaning given in section 410.01; and
69.26 	(2) "capital project of regional significance" means construction, expansion, or 
69.27 	renovation of a sports facility or convention or civic center, that has a construction cost 
69.28 	of at least $40,000,000.

69.29 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

69.30 	Sec. 4. USE OF THE STADIUM.
 69.31 		Subdivision 1.Amateur sports use. The lessee of the stadium must make the 
69.32 	facilities of the stadium available to the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission up to 
69.33 	ten days each year on terms satisfactory to the commission for amateur sports activities 
70.1 	consistent with Minnesota Statutes, chapter 240A, each year during the time the bonds 
70.2 	issued pursuant to this act are outstanding. The commission must negotiate in good faith 
70.3 	and may be required to pay no more than actual out-of-pocket expenses for the time 
70.4 	it uses the stadium.
70.5 		Subd. 2.High school league. The lessee of the stadium must make the facilities of 
70.6 	the stadium available for use by the Minnesota State High School League for at least seven 
70.7 	days each year for high school soccer and football tournaments. The lessee of the stadium 
70.8 	must provide, and may not charge the league a fee for, this use, including security, ticket 
70.9 	takers, custodial or cleaning services, or other similar services in connection with this use.